Which is good but I think a blocking TE is a lot easier to find than a high end receiving TE. Of course we want both but I’ll take my chances with developing the elite athlete receiver into a blocker.
Yeah I agree but I’m just talking about how the fans may react and I don’t think fans are always as logical as you’ve been.
Lions fans are the quickest to turn on their team. We could have a great offseason and if we go 3-out on our first drive of the year we hear boos. All offseason we will listen to guys rag on Stafford on talk radio, and how “insert U of M qb here” would be the answer.
Can we, the fbg lions fans, do anything to turn this around? We have the passion as a fan base but we’ve been let down over and over, to the point where we all shrug and say “same old lions.” Here we are talking about people’s heads exploding if we take a stud te. If we followed that logic we never would have drafted Calvin, maybe we should point that out.
My greater point here is that at some point we have to change our cheering habits. You’ve all seen it, it’s like 10-7 in the second and we throw a pick or something and the crowd is afk the rest of the game. The game hasn’t been lost and maybe there was a bad play or a bad call (or a bad play call) but we need to bring the noise right back in spite of it, and we don’t. I hear fans calling into radio shows that have basically given up on the season because we didn’t go back to the well at qb (they forget the parade of awful we saw from 1995-present
List here- use this when someone is ragging on stafford.) I’m sure I’ll hear whining about how we don’t have Golden Tate and how that was a bad move. You’ll hear “lions fans” talk smack about every player we have and how they’ll never win before corn is even knee high.
I don’t know how to change fan mentality (other than win) but I feel we should shoulder some of the blame here. Perhaps some of those early season home losses turn into wins if the fans can keep rooting for the right team, and could change the entire season.
As I look back on this, and remember the jets game to open the year, that’s hard to get excited about week 2. But we need to do that for our team imo.