Who was your NFL Draft Day 1 winner?"The first round of the NFL is in the books and in just about four years
Frank Ragnow Jersey , we’ll know whether teams made the right or wrong decisions on that fateful Thursday night.But because we live in a culture that demands
immediacy and has no capability to delay gratification, we must decide HERE and
we must decide NOW: Who won the NFL Draft? There were lots of surprises, a
handful of trades, and picks we could see coming from a mile away. But
ultimately, all we want to know is who came out as the biggest winner. So
today’s Question of the Day is simply:Which NFL team won Day 1 of the draft?My
answer: There were a couple teams out there that got the players they should
have or were fortunately to land. Josh Allen falling to the Jaguars was super
lucky for them, as was Dwayne Haskins dropping to Washington at 15. But I
thought the Seattle Seahawks did something very savvy on Thursday night. Seattle
entered Thursday with just five picks in the NFL Draft: a first rounder (21), a
second first rounder from the Frank Clark trade (29), a third rounder (84), a
fifth rounder (124) and a fifth rounder (159). If they’re lucky, they’d get two
starters and maybe a rotational player out of that haul.Instead, they traded
back twice in the first round. First they dropped from 21 to 30, then from 30 to
37. Sticking with their 29th overall pick, they got someone they hope can
replace Clark eventually in L.J. Collier from Texas Christian
Marvin Jones Jersey , a modest prospect but a perfect fit in Seattle. In the meantime, they added four more picks to their haul: three fourth rounders (114,
118, 132) anda fifth rounder (142). That’s not exactly a massive haul, but it
makes a lot of sense for a team that was low on draft capital and even lower on
cap space. This team is going to build from the draft, and now they have a
better opportunity to do so.Your turn.Tweets from
https://twitter.com/PrideOfDetroit/lists/lions-coverage ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) —
Bob Quinn had a lot to answer for during a rare news conference.The Detroit
general manager spoke for over 40 minutes Friday, recapping a disappointing
season in which the Lions went 6-10. A year ago around this time, Detroit fired
coach Jim Caldwell after back-to-back 9-7 campaigns. Quinn said then he felt the
team was capable of more, but the Lions struggled from the start in 2018 under
new coach Matt Patricia."Disappointing season for us overall, on the whole. All
of us kind of had high expectations going into this year," Quinn said. "My
position as the general manager here, I'm accountable
Darius Slay Jersey , I'm responsible. I put this team together, and I feel like we have a good team. We didn't win as much as we should have this year." Quinn
said in no uncertain terms that he has confidence in quarterback Matthew
Stafford, whose future with Detroit has been the subject of some speculation
after he threw for 3,777 yards this season, his lowest total since 2010. Quinn
said he feels the Lions can win a Super Bowl with him."Matthew Stafford's our
quarterback. He will be our quarterback here," Quinn said. "This guy's a really
talented player, and myself, the coaches need to put him in better
situations."Stafford turns 31 next month and just finished his 10th season with
the Lions, who drafted him with the first overall pick in 2009. He threw four
interceptions in an opening-game loss to the New York Jets that set the tone for
the season.Quinn takes questions from reporters so infrequently that on Friday
he still faced queries about issues that came up before the start of the season.
In May, the Detroit News reported that Patricia and a friend were indicted 22
years earlier by a Texas grand jury on one count each of aggravated sexual
assault. The accuser did not testify and the case was dismissed.Patricia
maintained his innocence in a news conference after that report. Quinn was at
that news conference but did not speak. On Friday, Quinn said he found out about
the allegations not long before the report."I first found out about it a couple
days before the article came out," Quinn said. "Matt had got wind that the
article was going to come out and came and told me. So we had extensive
conversations with myself, ownership (and team president Rod Wood) about
everything."Quinn said the issue had not come up during a standard background
check during the hiring process
Matthew Stafford Jersey , and he indicated such background checks are beyond his area of expertise."I'm not paid to do extensive background checks.
I'm here to select a head coach," Quinn said. "I'm very comfortable with Matt
Patricia as our head coach."Patricia's first year was a rocky one for the Lions
on the field and off, and Detroit fans may not have much patience if things
don't improve quickly in 2019."He's very self-aware," Quinn said. "He has a good
understanding of his strengths, his limitations. He's going to take this
offseason, as we all do, to look back and say, hey, what can I change? Because
obviously, we've got to do better."Detroit is now in the market for a new
offensive coordinator after deciding not to renew Jim Bob Cooter's contract ."We
need to do a better job of going into each week, looking at the opponent, and
saying, how are we going to beat this team? They have a great run defense and a
poor pass defense
Tracy Walker Jersey , maybe we throw it 45 times. And vice versa," Quinn said. "We want someone that thinks that way. That thinks that, hey, I have an offense,
but my offense is adaptable."Detroit's late-October trade that sent Golden Tate
to Philadelphia didn't help the offense. The Lions were 3-4 at the time and
faced the possibility of losing Tate to free agency. They received a third-round
draft pick for him."It was just an offer that we really couldn't refuse, for
what the value was, and for what we had left of the player, which was eight
games," Quinn said. "We felt we had a balanced offense at that time."The next
big name to depart could be defensive end Ziggy Ansah, whom the Lions kept this
season on the franchise tag but who played in only seven games because of injury
problems."Ziggy fought through some things this year," Quinn said while
remaining noncommittal about Ansah's future. "Ziggy's extremely, extremely
tough. I'm proud of him being a Detroit Lion."
