We all know the old drafting best available vs drafting for needs argument, and I think most here would advocate for going for best available.

Fair enough.

But what about the likely consequences of that?

The Lions seem to have a team of giants, and we have half a team of mostly good inside mids.

Surely the consequences of this philosophy is that you have to be willing and able to trade what you have a surplus of?

Yet fans go off their brains when this is suggested. "Oh, it will wreck the fabric of the team etc"

Well, the inconvenient truth is that we have lots of inside mids, and bugger all fast, skilful players, true forwards or good tall forwards (especially after Stringer leaves).

In the next couple of years, should we be shopping around one or two of our big name inside mids to get what we need?