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Detroit Lions general manager Martin Mayhew recently said his team's main offseason priority will be re-signing their own players.

Now that some of the monkeys are off the back of this team; IE a winning season and making the NFL playoffs, a new challenge awaits this team and it's General Manger Martin Mayhew.

Let us put that bull crap rule behind us and look at how this team has been constructed.

The Detroit Lions brain trust of General Manager Martin Mayhew, Team President Tom Lewand, and Head Coach Jim Schwartz has done a pretty good job in free agency and through trades of improving the talent level of the team.

The best thing we can say about Martin Mayhew is that he spent seven years under former Lions GM Matt Millen learning how to not conduct a NFL Draft.

On the first day of free agency Detroit Lions General Manager Martin Mayhew and Head Coach Jim Schwartz have made a few moves to start the rebuild project on the defensive line.

First they traded for DT Corey Williams from the Cleveland Browns, and then they signed DE Kyle Vanden Bosh from the Tennessee Titans to a four year 26 million dollar contract.

The Detroit Lions' General Manger, Martin Mayhew, has come out and said that his team may use the second overall pick in April's draft on an offensive player.

That has led too much local speculation that they will draft Clemson RB CJ Spiller. While Spiller is the number one rated RB in this draft, and the Lions could use another RB, using this pick on Spiller is a very bad idea for several reasons.

When the Detroit Lions fired Matt Millen and handed control of this team over to Martin Mayhew, one of the first things Martin did was trade WR Roy Williams to the Dallas Cowboys for a first, third, and sixth round pick in the 2009 draft.

Mayhew was largely applauded for making that trade to get more draft picks to begin his rebuilding effort of a NFL roster devoid of NFL talent.

If that is the case, can we make a similar argument for the Lions to trade away WR Calvin Johnson?