With Mathew Stafford already signed with Detroit the 2009 NFL Draft has officially started. Of all the teams in the draft that needed help at almost all positions and needed to draft players to help this team right away it is the Lions. So with their first pick they take a QB that has an amazingly strong arm, but as I have studied him on tape he is not as accurate as you would like him to be when he throws down field nor is he an impressive decision maker. When you struggle in those area’s it is hard for me to warrant first round ability let alone first pick overall. If Stafford has to start this year he will be destroyed. The Lions do not have enough talent to hide and protect him and if he fails he will set the Lions organization back even further if that is possible.

This is a pick represents the future of the Detroit Lions, the only problem is the future of this franchise is this season. They go into the season with a 0 and 17 resume based on the end of 2008 and they could climb all the way to 0 and 21 before they see a win. The rest of the draft had better be awfully good in order for Detroit to recover from this pick and others in the past.

I will tweeting on my page (twitter.com/merrilhoge.com) and ESPN.com page for the first round so tune in and send questions as they come up. Good luck to all the football fans out there I hope your team drafts the player’s that can help your team win it all.