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That is a good point. Most people going to the game want to see the Lions win regardless of their record or anything. There is zero chance in hell though that the Lions would have signed Kap to play on Thanksgiving Day. Yes it would have created drama but I don't think the Ford family is interested in that kind of drama.
I agree, but when a team in a very blue city like Detroit dont feel the need to sign a QB when they are very beat down at the position starting a scrub no one heard of..that seals the deal for Kap career. But I think we knew that, point is, Detroit doesnt ever want to win games and to be honest, nothing in their past 10 years (even earlier) have even signaled winning matters to them. The city of Detroit knew what the Lions were all about when they let Barry walk. Tell me a Lions fan who didnt realize that was the moment they are cursed? Detroit needs a jump start to its brand of football, even if the jump start is from drama. All starting Blough tells me is Martha is and has been a thief all her life, as her and her husbands plan was just to make money off of the hard working people of Detroit, not bring home a winning team.
Yeah but the last thing they want are protests outside the game with flag waiving and all that. Or people on social media bashing Ford Motor saying to boycott them, etc. The Ford truck is their lifeblood and I'm guessing there are a lot of Ford truck owners who don't want to Kap in the NFL.
I agree. Who does want that? But they should think about that before owning biz that can interfere in real NFL decision making and I think is part of why some dont liek Martha owning the team.
That was a fun game to watch against the Buckeyes last year. I have a feeling it will not be the same result today however.
Their version of being creative probably involves pounding Bo up the middle continuously.
The single biggest reason for their poor performance is injury. They've never been at full strength this season, and it shows in a big way. Having Stafford out doesn't help things, either.
Yeah, God forbid a coach struggle his first time in a new job, while a fan base completely undeserving of a team ####### and moans about every single move he or the team makes, because they made different moves in the rookie mode of the latest Madden game and it worked out great! The Lions deserve a championship, but their fans don't deserve a team.Every team has injuries, only the Lions have Matty Patty.
That's pretty harsh. I know lots of Lions fans who drink the kool-aid and support the team every year no matter what, always think this year will be different, etc. I have been very hard on Patricia and am getting more and more critical of Quinn. I am not saying I can do their job. I can't but that doesn't mean I can not be critical about their choices.
I'm saying that the ones who do nothing but complain don't deserve a team to root for. I'm disappointed in how the Lions are doing, but I also know that it's pretty hard to win games without your starting defense and starting QB not being able to play. Pretty much any team not named the Patriots would struggle with that situation. But no, even back in Week 1, when they tied a team for the first time in my lifetime, here comes the "Fire Quinn and Patricia" crowd. That's why I don't really talk to other Lions fans, that and the fact that I live in Florida.
Most of that time, they were owned by William Clay Ford, a man who had little idea how to run a team, that's true. Since he died, his widow has cleaned house, hired a consultant to find a GM, and actively tried to make the team better. But yeah, let's pretend that nothing has changed from an operations standpoint.
I agree with this- I like Martha.I liked the Quinn hire. However, at this point, I am not convinced Quinn fully gets it. I have never liked the Patricia hire so I have been critical at every step with him.
Still the same family owned for all 60 miserable years, no matter how you spin it. And the exact same miserable results.
You're right, 2008 is exactly the same as 2019. Hiring people from the most successful franchise in the league is exactly the same as bringing an incompetent buffoon with zero experience who took a team on the edge of decency and turned them into a laughingstock for the next decade. No difference whatsoever here.
Stop with the semantics argument. They're not good, but better than anything under Millen, and frankly better than anything the complainers deserve.
My grandfathers both worked in the Ford factories near Detroit. Rooting for the Lions and the Wolverines are pretty much the last things tying me to anything in that state, since I follow the Lightning, and if I watched baseball, the Rays. I realize things go wrong with teams during the year, but constantly calling for everyone to be fired is a pointless endeavor. If doing something makes a person that miserable, they should stop doing it.
I'm not miserable at at all. Hard to be miserable when you have a clown organization like the lions to laugh at on a weekly basis.
I wasn't referring to you specifically. I was referring to the people who claim to follow the team, but never say anything positive about the team, rant that the Fords should sell(not all owners are as hands on as Jerry Jones, and he sucks at it anyway, so blaming the owners makes little sense), or that everyone should be fired despite the fact that the Lions have been devastated by injuries, which makes it harder to win. Now, if they want to fire the strength coach, go for it! Dude's washed up, evidently. Honestly, Pasqualoni can go as well, the defense has gone backwards.
