Florida State’s Ernie Simms is a heck of a football player despite not being able to remember his name and pooping his pants everytime the phone rings.
OLB-Ernie Simms–Florida State–6′ 228lbs.
Lions fans everywhere are glad the pick wasn’t a WR or a QB. That being said, this isn’t the pick they had to be hoping for. Simms had trouble staying healthy at FSU and hit himself into concussion after concussion. With so many other needs, it is a bit of a surprise (then again with Matt Millen no it isn’t) that they didn’t try and trade down.
Our Detroit Lions corespondent is taking the tempreture of the Lions fans on the message boards and it is decidedly negative.
Rapid Fire!!! The Cardinals wasted no time and I am now BEHIND!!! Next up, the free fall ends.
Since Zim mentioned it, here are some titles of threads on the Lions message board: “Fire Millen”, “Sims? Oh Good just what we need, another undersized, injury prone linebacker.”, “How many days until Ernie is on the PUP/IR?”, “Lions are going to intentionally tank the season”, “should we just forfeit Seattle game?”, “Early report on Sims, Just fell out of his chair after he heard he was drafted and got a concussion”, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”, “HOW MANY LB DO WE NEED?”, “LIONS LAUGHINGSTOCK OF THE LEAGUE!”
And they passed on Leinart!!!! Wow….the Lions are going to look REALLY silly when Leinart is passing TD’s to Fitzgerald and Boldin while the Lions’ Big Three are waiting for the ball to get to them from Kitna.