Leshoure will be waived by the Lions, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The 2011 second-rounder was supplanted as the Lions' No. 3 back (behind Reggie Bush and Joique Bell) by Theo Riddick, whose cause was helped by his ability to contribute on special teams. Leshoure figures to catch on elsewhere in the coming days, though he'll have much to prove before re-emerging on the fantasy radar.
Bum. Just another in the long line of wasted second round draft picks. As bad as the Lions are in drafting in the first round, thaty are even worse at getting anybody that can help their team in the second.
The Lions have more success drafting guys that wind up in jail.
I just don't think Schwartz had any real grasp of offensive skill-position player evaluation. Totally a defense guy (and maybe only a front-seven guy, even at that).
I suspect the drafting may improve under Caldwell and Lombardi.
Yeah.. let's put the failure of an entire organization on Jim Schwartz. Tom Lewand is completely incompetent. He should have been fired years ago. He's shown over the last decade that he cannot effectively manage a salary cap in the nfl. But the Ford family does not care. Mayhew has been below average to this point. With his first round picks covering up the fact that he can't find talent outside the first round. The Brian Xanders addition seemed to help a lot last year. But what happens when he gets another G.M. position with another team? While I'm sure schwartz had a say in personnel decisions, it's up to the G.M. to put talent on the field. Say what you will about schwartz,(he wasn't a great coach during his stint.) but let's not kidd ourselves. he's just a scapegoat.
Dude, nowhere in my post does it claim that the "the failure of [the] entire organization" is Schwartz's fault. You're going off on a tangent because evidently you're too angry about the Lions being the Lions to read comments carefully. We were just talking about drafting, bud.
And in that vein regarding Schwartz, as the head-freaking-coach, it should go without saying that he had at least equal say to Mayhew in prospect evaluation and final say. That qualifies him as having much more of a portion of the blame than a 'scapegoat', obviously.
As for Lewand, again, salary cap management is a tangential topic to draft success.
edit: Also tangential, but since you brought this up... player DEVELOPMENT is arguably the biggest problem of all that the Lions have had in recent years, and that aspect actually does fall almost entirely on the shoulders of Schwartz and his selected staff. Maybe some of those draft picks actually *should* have panned out, but since Schwartz seemed to make no effort at all to foster a culture of discipline and professionalism on the team, it shouldn't surprise that a lot of those young men suffered arrested development.
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PigskinPlodderSat 8/30/14 11:55 AM
Bum. Just another in the long line of wasted second round draft picks. As bad as the Lions are in drafting in the first round, thaty are even worse at getting anybody that can help their team in the second.
The Lions have more success drafting guys that wind up in jail.
cogwheelSat 8/30/14 2:26 PM
I just don't think Schwartz had any real grasp of offensive skill-position player evaluation. Totally a defense guy (and maybe only a front-seven guy, even at that).
I suspect the drafting may improve under Caldwell and Lombardi.
Davis727Sat 8/30/14 4:39 PM
Yeah.. let's put the failure of an entire organization on Jim Schwartz. Tom Lewand is completely incompetent. He should have been fired years ago. He's shown over the last decade that he cannot effectively manage a salary cap in the nfl. But the Ford family does not care. Mayhew has been below average to this point. With his first round picks covering up the fact that he can't find talent outside the first round. The Brian Xanders addition seemed to help a lot last year. But what happens when he gets another G.M. position with another team? While I'm sure schwartz had a say in personnel decisions, it's up to the G.M. to put talent on the field. Say what you will about schwartz,(he wasn't a great coach during his stint.) but let's not kidd ourselves. he's just a scapegoat.
cogwheelSun 8/31/14 1:44 PM
Dude, nowhere in my post does it claim that the "the failure of [the] entire organization" is Schwartz's fault. You're going off on a tangent because evidently you're too angry about the Lions being the Lions to read comments carefully. We were just talking about drafting, bud.
And in that vein regarding Schwartz, as the head-freaking-coach, it should go without saying that he had at least equal say to Mayhew in prospect evaluation and final say. That qualifies him as having much more of a portion of the blame than a 'scapegoat', obviously.
As for Lewand, again, salary cap management is a tangential topic to draft success.
edit: Also tangential, but since you brought this up... player DEVELOPMENT is arguably the biggest problem of all that the Lions have had in recent years, and that aspect actually does fall almost entirely on the shoulders of Schwartz and his selected staff. Maybe some of those draft picks actually *should* have panned out, but since Schwartz seemed to make no effort at all to foster a culture of discipline and professionalism on the team, it shouldn't surprise that a lot of those young men suffered arrested development.
PigskinPlodderThu 9/4/14 12:01 AM
It's been over 50 years, guys. The only constant is a 4 letter word...
F O R D