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The lions lost again on this deal when they reach the playoffs next year they will lose a 6th round pick 2012 they should have accepted the 7th this year what a bonehead move trying to get out of it.

Quote:The Detroit Lions scored a mini-victory by appealing their tampering punishment when the NFL said today it upheld its earlier verdict but changed the punishment to reinstate the Lions’ final draft pick.


The Lions still will swap fifth-round choices with the Chiefs — Kansas City assumes the Lions’ original No. 9 pick in the round (140th overall), while the Lions pick 23rd (154th overall) — but instead of forfeiting a seventh-round pick this year, the Lions will lose a draft choice in 2012.

I think it was a mini loss!

http://www.freep.com/article/20110331/S ... ext|Sports

so if they won their appeal, why do they still lose picks? Sounds like the league doesn't want to admit their mistake.... again.

They didn't win their appeal. The Lions broke the rules and the NFL punished them for it. The appeal process caused the NFL to re-evaluate the value of the picks and concluded to suspend it for a year on the 7th rounder, because they now believe the value of picks this year has risen since the time the punishment was handed down, so they made a slight adjustment. And it's also possible that we could have won the appeal but only lost because we didn't do a good job of stating our case, but we'll never know the details to analyze that.

A 7th and 6th round pick? Who cares? Taking away a 6th or 7th round pick is the definition of a slap on the wrist.

If we were banking on a 6th round pick to change the franchise, we were in trouble anyways.