Called it: Jason Smith edition

[RobBase]

Saints release Jason Smith

The Saints brought in Smith to push Charles Brown for the starting job on Drew Brees' blindside. It never happened. Third-round rookie Terron Armstead will serve as Brown's backup, as Smith heads back to the street. The No. 2 overall pick of the Rams in the 2009 draft has now been cut by two teams in the last six months. Smith is one of the biggest busts in the history of the league.

Dear friends and allies -

Bragging time. Not only did I correctly predict Stafford would be the no.1 overall pick by the Lions (and Delmas in the 2nd round but I digress), I said Jason Smith would be a total bust in the NFL, based on the extreme lack of success of Big 12 spread offense LT's in the NFL previous to that year. This was of course met with violent retort from some (not all) but most Lions fans.

And yet today, here we are.
I'll be back when Peyton Manning throws that next playoff exit INT.

Until then -

swarm

 

[jdwills126]

Before you sprain your arm patting yourself on the back.....

Stafford was the majority choice with the bust of an OLB as the next choice. If you would have called Pettigrew in the first that would have impressed me!

 

[Cleaves2000]

Cant lie.....i wanted the lions to build a line before they got a QB......So yeah i admit i wanted him or curry

 

[Rollingthndr]

Cant lie.....i wanted the lions to build a line before they got a QB......So yeah i admit i wanted him or curry

Oh snap. At least you are man enough to admit it, I respect that.

 

[Clayton]

Rams fans can't really say anything because we all wanted Aaron Curry. There was a small minority that wanted Crabtree. Almost no one wanted Jason Smith, though. I remember wanting Eugene Monroe if we went OT

 

[gandydancer]

I do not remember if I started out wanting Smith or Stafford??? ( never Curry) I do remember SWARM heavily presauding some thought process about it.

Hell I had visions of some guy jumping out of my laptop screen and putting the beat down on my arse. :boxing:

 

[Clayton]

I'm shocked you guys were thinking about anything other than QB. In today's game, even if the top QB plays remarkably average (*cough* Bradford) its still way better than not having a QB

 

[gandydancer]

He must really blow!! Nobody even tried him elsewhere on the line. Tackles get drafted and moved inside a lot.

 

[Old Lion]

Stafford made more sense. We had nothing and I mean nothing other than Megatron. You don't start building a franchise around an OT when there is a franchise QB available and you need one.

 

[gvsulaker82]

Cleaves way to be the bigger man, gotta give props to anyone that can man up and admit they were wrong. Theres no one here that will be right about everything when it comes to the lions (although if bsl still was with us then maybe) and thats what makes it so great to have differing perspectives that allow great debates.

 

[broncosmitty]

At no point did I support drafting Stafford leading up to the draft.

 

[broncosmitty]

That's not me admitting I was wrong by the way.

 

[themuzzer]

I was all over Currys Jock but that's because I went to the same High School as him 20 years prior.

 

[broncosmitty]

I just saw Stafford as the kind of QB who'd win 4 games in year 4....

 

[themuzzer]

I just saw Stafford as the kind of QB who'd win 4 games in year 4....

Just curious Smitty, did you see JS winning 4 that same year?

 

[Rollingthndr]

I'm shocked you guys were thinking about anything other than QB. In today's game, even if the top QB plays remarkably average (*cough* Bradford) its still way better than not having a QB

Great point.

My exact words were before the draft "When Dan Orvlosky is your best option at QB, you have to draft the QB."

 

[broncosmitty]

Just curious Smitty, did you see JS winning 4 that same year?

I'd have to check my notes.

 

[RobBase]

SHOCKER: 37% of Lions fans want Curry, more than Stafford and Smith!

According to a poll on detroitlions.com which asked who should the Lions take first overall, the results are as follows.

Aaron Curry - 37%
Jason Smith - 25%
Matt Stafford - 23%

More than 26,000 votes were cast.

 

[RobBase]

For what it is worth, the ONLY reason anyone wanted Jason Smith is because dumb ass Bill Parcell's took Jake Long over Matt Ryan the year before. Had he taken Ryan like he should have, Parcell's career would not have fizzled out as fast as it did, and Lions fans would have collectively been BEGGING for Matthew Stafford. But they saw "genius Bill" take a LT over a franchise QB and Lions fans just had to have one of their own. Blame the usual media monkey hype for their love of Curry, the "can't miss player of the draft!" lol

And you guys wonder why I shit all over media links.

 

[Mebert]

Most people wanted Smith because Backus was coming off the worst year of his career and they felt they needed to have protection before they brought in a QB.

I did not care for Smith, but I wanted Curry. I was a big fan of Stafford and figured we could only improve so much and we would have a shot at Bradford in the next year.

My plan would have stuck us with a lesser QB and no Suh. I am glad we did not go that way.