SideLion Report » Rod Marinelli http://sidelionreport.com A Detroit Lions Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:38:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Decade of Detroit Lions Drafts http://sidelionreport.com/2011/03/07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-a-decade-of-lions-drafts/ http://sidelionreport.com/2011/03/07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-a-decade-of-lions-drafts/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:00:49 +0000 http://sidelionreport.com/?p=6126 Detroit Lions fans were in draft mode immediately following the win over the Minnesota Vikings in week 17.  A four game winning streak has done that for all of us Lions addicts.  Who else can we get to come in here?  There has been a lot of talk since the end of the season about [...]

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]]> Detroit Lions fans were in draft mode immediately following the win over the Minnesota Vikings in week 17.  A four game winning streak has done that for all of us Lions addicts.  Who else can we get to come in here?  There has been a lot of talk since the end of the season about who the Lions should grab in the draft to help rebuild this team.  I thought it would be interesting to take a peek at the last ten years of the draft from a Lions perspective to determine who the best picks and the worst picks have been, round by round.

Being that Matt Millen was doing the drafting for the majority of this time it should come as no surprise that the list of “worst” picks is considerably longer then the list for “best” picks.  In some cases the “best” pick wasn’t a very good player or didn’t turn out to be a good player.  In some cases the “best” pick might have been a great pick but just didn’t pan out.  This list demonstrates just how good or bad a pick can be.  We start with round seven and work our way to round one.

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]]> http://sidelionreport.com/2011/03/07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-a-decade-of-lions-drafts/feed/ 1 Evaluating Detroit Lions Progress by Offensive and Defensive Rankings http://sidelionreport.com/2010/12/09/evaluating-detroit-lions-progress-by-offensive-and-defensive-rankings/ http://sidelionreport.com/2010/12/09/evaluating-detroit-lions-progress-by-offensive-and-defensive-rankings/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:13:41 +0000 Zac Snyder http://sidelionreport.com/?p=4602 Yesterday, I tried to quantify the progress the Lions have made this year and discussed whether or not it is relevant. I suggest giving it a read if you missed it since this post will hit on a lot of the same thoughts. Today’s analysis will focus more on the team’s statistical performance rather than [...]

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]]> Yesterday, I tried to quantify the progress the Lions have made this year and discussed whether or not it is relevant. I suggest giving it a read if you missed it since this post will hit on a lot of the same thoughts.

Today’s analysis will focus more on the team’s statistical performance rather than game result and margin approach presented yesterday. Are the Lions really making progress? And more importantly, does it matter?

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]]> http://sidelionreport.com/2010/12/09/evaluating-detroit-lions-progress-by-offensive-and-defensive-rankings/feed/ 3 Going Inside the Numbers to Ponder Detroit Lions Progress http://sidelionreport.com/2010/12/08/going-inside-the-numbers-to-ponder-detroit-lions-progress/ http://sidelionreport.com/2010/12/08/going-inside-the-numbers-to-ponder-detroit-lions-progress/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:56:27 +0000 Zac Snyder http://sidelionreport.com/?p=4572 The Lions are playing competitive football, few would argue with that. Some fans are content with competitive football for now while others dismiss it as meaningless since it isn’t leading to wins. Proponents of the former point to progress they see with their eyes while proponents of the former use the fact that most NFL [...]

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]]> The Lions are playing competitive football, few would argue with that. Some fans are content with competitive football for now while others dismiss it as meaningless since it isn’t leading to wins. Proponents of the former point to progress they see with their eyes while proponents of the former use the fact that most NFL games are decided by a touchdown or less to argue that wins are all that matter.

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