With the amount of injuries we had, there was no trade scenario that would have put us over the top and into the Super Bowl! Dan & Brad did the right thing sitting on their hands & not getting fleeced. Recover & re-tool for next season & hope we can stay healthy

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  1. How many 1sts did the packers give up again?? I know this upcoming one but was it the following year too??

  2. I mean if Parsons doesn’t get hurt the packers are probably playing at home next week instead of the bears with a much better shot at taking down Stafford than the Bears have :/

  4. The Colts one was always wild. I get Sauce is good but I don’t think any non-QB skill player is multiple firsts good.

    That said, the thing I’m happiest about this year is that we didn’t touch the trade deadline actually. Largely because I don’t think there was a good fix coming with just one or two trades.

  5. I mean yea I guess if the guy you trade all your picks for has a season ending injury, they probably won’t help much.

  6. So it’s better to try something and fail then do nothing and in the case of the Lions still fail ? Is that what this person is trying to say? I’d rather see my teams go for it than do nothing and still lose.

  7. Meh.

    You could argue all of these teams you used as an example will still be in a better position than the Lions – because they have these studs locked in for a few more years.

  8. Packers are going to regret that Parsons trade if they don’t win. The only thing stopping the Lions from winning the Superbowl are injuries. If everything went the Lions way and we had guys like Levi and Pascal available the Lions probably would had won a superbowl by now or at least made an appearance but Brad got to stop drafting and taking chances on guys with a long history of being injury prone. Davenport was never going to be the answer

  10. I don’t know why we are seeing these posts about teams trading 1st picks and Eagles cap void hits.

    Other teams made mistakes. And that makes our situation in Detroit better how again? We went 9-8 and missed the playoffs so I don’t think we are in a position to point and laugh at other teams failures. 

  13. Poeple think just because 1 team does this and it works that is always going to work. For every 1 team it works for there are 10 it doesn’t work for.

  14. The Parsons trade was not “all in”. Trading 2 1st rounders that will most likely be in the back half + Kenny Clark who was starting to show his age and got replaced is not an all in move

  16. The thing is not many people are asking to go all in we’d just like to see him make some moves to improve the team. Ya know instead of doing little or nothing. We went from Super Bowl favorite to a non playoff team in a year because we sat idle while literally our entire division got better well maybe except for the Vikings

  18. Micah Parsons trade was one of the most lopsided trade in NFL history. 2 late 1st round picks for a HOF defensive end.

  21. As a reminder, the Rams are the only team where this all in move actually worked. And it was for a quarterback who is inherently protected by NFL roughing the passer rules. Every other all in trade has resulted in failure for that season and the subsequent seasons.

  22. This is such a “my friend won the lottery so everyone should liquidate their assets and buy lottery tickets” type of logical fallacy.

  23. Everyone was so enamored by the Rams going “all in” that they think that’s the way to get to the Super Bowl.

    But you can look at the Chiefs, Eagles, Patriots, even the current iteration of the Rams, and see that perennial contenders aren’t built like that.

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