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2024 Detroit Lions: Getting ready for the draft in Motown. (7 Viewers)
- Thread starter Da Guru
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TartanLion
Footballguy
dirtyjay
Footballguy
Speculation?:
Ian Rapoport
✔@RapSheetThe future beyond 2015 for #Lions QB Matthew Stafford is very much in doubt, as I understand it.
12:04 PM - 5 Nov 2015
Ian Rapoport
✔@RapSheetThe future beyond 2015 for #Lions QB Matthew Stafford is very much in doubt, as I understand it.
12:04 PM - 5 Nov 2015
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Shes reading a typewritten statement...badly.
Ladsud
Footballguy
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Little harsh, yea. sorry.
Point being..this is typical SOP for the Lions. "We know what were doing, no questions please". Such a pompous organization for never having won anything. Have lots of friends that are long-suffering Lions fans. I feel truly feel sorry for them.
Glad to see they finally made some moves that appear to be moving them in the right direction.
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
She's 90.
(sorry but that 91 has been misquoted in this thread 50 times this year)
Sheldon White? I remember him, DB on the only Lions team that won a playoff game.
Wonder why not Brian Xanders?
(sorry but that 91 has been misquoted in this thread 50 times this year)
Sheldon White? I remember him, DB on the only Lions team that won a playoff game.
Wonder why not Brian Xanders?
Justin Rogers @Justin_Rogers
Sheldon White is the interim GM and Allison Maki will be interim president. Both will respond directly to Ford.
1:06 PM - 5 Nov 2015
Sheldon White is the interim GM and Allison Maki will be interim president. Both will respond directly to Ford.
1:06 PM - 5 Nov 2015
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Correct. He has said publicly Martha is in complete control and he hasn't done much in the way of making team decisions for years.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Hail no!! White has been with the Lions for 19 years of losing. Lions need a fresh start with everybody.
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Yeah Im sure with Martha ford pulling the strings everything will be dandy
LMFAO
LMFAO
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Sheldon White needs to be broomed out of there too.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Well they had to name someone interim GM. White is VP of Pro Personnel so he's probably the best fit for the short term.
Lewand's dad was WCF's personal attorney & got the President position by virtue of kissing butt. Give Martha credit for getting rid of both of them - most thought Mathew would go but Lewand would have a soft landing.
Keep going, Martha.
Lewand's dad was WCF's personal attorney & got the President position by virtue of kissing butt. Give Martha credit for getting rid of both of them - most thought Mathew would go but Lewand would have a soft landing.
Keep going, Martha.
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
This reminds me of a certain contest in a movie about real estate salesmen. 1st prize would have been a new car (owner). 3rd prize would have been to continue on as they have been. Looks like we won that set of steak knives.
Da Guru
Fair & Balanced
Terry Foster reported that Lewand back stabbed JR in a power struggle after the old man died and that they have not spoke in 5 months. They used to be bro`s.
Team Smokin'
Footballguy
I'm a long-standing and long-suffering Lions fan going back to the mid-60's. As far as I see it the Ford family needs to sell this team to an owner who will create a new culture. Short term...Caldwell probably done soon enough too! Only reason he stays is because no one is left.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Stafford would be dead money and with that contract not much coming back in a trade.
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
maybe Bruce McNorton is available to take a FO position
Team Smokin'
Footballguy
Lions are basically screwed with the salary cap and Stafford...I think. Poor decisions and here we are.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Baloney Sandwich
Footballguy
If you were going to bang a 90 year old woman, you could do a lot worse than Martha
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Well she has the advantage of youth over Virginia Halas McCaskey.
http://www.lebow.drexel.edu/sites/default/files/Vertical_Football_0.jpg
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Not bad for 3 grown children.
Read somewhere today she'll have an enlarged role going forward as well. Seems like baby brother Bill is the odd man out versus mom & the three daughters.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Irony: Martha Cleans House or some variant is the popular headline today.
Odds Martha Firestone Ford has ever cleaned a house in her lifetime?
Odds Martha Firestone Ford has ever cleaned a house in her lifetime?
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Sabertooth
Footballguy
They should just get Yzerman in there already.
The Captain
Footballguy
Back in the '90s Michael Moore had a show called "TV Nation" where one of his bits was going to CEO's houses and getting them to meet him outside and use their company's products. Most of them stonewalled him (ie, the CEO of Phillip Morris refused to smoke a cigarette with him), but the one who played ball was the CEO of Ford (must have been WCF), who came out and changed the oil on his car. Of course, that might have had something to do with the fact that Moore had earlier made an entire movie castigating his counterpart at GM.Leroy Hoard said:
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Per The Detroit News here are the top guys out there to be the new GM:
Bob Quinn
Director of pro scouting, Patriots
Age: 39
Background: Joined the Patriots in 2000 as a player personnel assistant and moved up as a scout on all levels until he was named pro scouting director in 2012. Considered about as comprehensive of a talent evaluator as any staffer in the NFL. Massachusetts native and Connecticut graduate (bachelor’s and masters degrees). Married, with a son and daughter.
Eliot Wolf
Director of player personnel, Packers
Age: 33
Background: Son of the venerated and retired Packers GM Ron Wolf, whose personnel wizardry beginning 20 years ago re-established Green Bay as an annual championship contender. Eliot, at age 10, joined his father in the Packers film room and began an apprenticeship that showed a son’s skills were not dissimilar from his father’s. Has had a rapid ascent as a scout and personnel director. A graduate of the Miami. Married, no children.
Bob Quinn
Director of pro scouting, Patriots
Age: 39
Background: Joined the Patriots in 2000 as a player personnel assistant and moved up as a scout on all levels until he was named pro scouting director in 2012. Considered about as comprehensive of a talent evaluator as any staffer in the NFL. Massachusetts native and Connecticut graduate (bachelor’s and masters degrees). Married, with a son and daughter.
Eliot Wolf
Director of player personnel, Packers
Age: 33
Background: Son of the venerated and retired Packers GM Ron Wolf, whose personnel wizardry beginning 20 years ago re-established Green Bay as an annual championship contender. Eliot, at age 10, joined his father in the Packers film room and began an apprenticeship that showed a son’s skills were not dissimilar from his father’s. Has had a rapid ascent as a scout and personnel director. A graduate of the Miami. Married, no children.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Martha & Sheila should lean on the NFL executive search panel.
Check out this article from Detroit Free Press:
Madden, Dungy, Polian on panel that could help Lions' search
http://on.freep.com/1iJSpme
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
What's the track record of Pats alums in GM roles? It certainly can't be worse than Belichick's coaching tree. The only one I know of is Pioli, who did not particularly distinguish himself in KC. I think Dimitroff may be as well.
