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For the Detroit Lions, smoke doesn’t always mean fire

By Robert Jones

NORMAN, OK - SEPTEMBER 08: Quarterback Kyler Murray #1 of the Oklahoma Sooners looks to throw against the UCLA Bruins at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners defeated the Bruins 49-21. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
NORMAN, OK - SEPTEMBER 08: Quarterback Kyler Murray #1 of the Oklahoma Sooners looks to throw against the UCLA Bruins at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Norman, Oklahoma. The Sooners defeated the Bruins 49-21. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images) /
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The company line down in Allen Park is that the less said about the draft, the better. It worked for them last year and hope for it to work again. The Lions also filled many needs in free agency which has completely opened up the draft for them.

If they wanted to trade up for a quarterback, which some analysts have predicted, they can. If they want to trade back and collect extra picks, they can. If they want to stay put and select a particular player should he be available, they can. Or if they would just like to play the ho-hum game of taking the best available, they certainly can.

In other words, when we say they have plenty of options, they do. It’s that simple.

The real question that is on every Lions’ fans lips is; what will they do? Everyone certainly has an opinion about which direction they should go and almost all of those opinions have good reasons behind them, simply because the Lions have put themselves in a position of not having one glaring need that absolutely has to be addressed with their first pick.

That is one of the greatest luxuries a team can have heading into the draft, especially when they like to do the whole ‘cone of silence cloak and dagger’ approach like Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia.

So what Lions fans are now doing is trying their best to figure out which direction this franchise will go by using whatever information they can find. They put on their detective hats and pull out the magnifying glass and say, ‘By Jove, the Lions will select one of these awesome players they have arranged a meeting with.’

After all, there are numerous big names like Kyler Murray, Josh Allen, and Dwayne Haskins to just name a few who have or will meet with the Lions brass.

This, of course, gives every Lions fans a good idea of who is on the Lions radar, right? Actually, if we examine the evidence from last year it tells us a completely different story. Bob Quinn wanted Frank Ragnow all the way, but they had no meetings with him and not even Frank himself had a clue the Lions were interested.

Which means that perhaps we need to re-think the evidence that has been presented.

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