Thoughts are with the Caputo Family and our friend @patcaputo98 He was one of one and a fierce advocate and defender of all things Detroit. Pat was a member of our team for almost 30 years @FOX2News Love ya brother. If there’s a Field of Dreams, I know you’re there. 💔
Stephen A. Smith: If I see another one of these administration officials fawning over Donald Trump, I'm going to lose my damn mind.
The kissing of his ass is so nauseating. The chances of us believing you would ever speak against him on behalf of the American people is not something we can trust.
@pjcalverley@DougAndGator971 Good point. This situation is so rare but really messes up some other teams. Perhaps the physical contingency should satisfied before announcing the trade, even though it can’t be official until today. What a mess.
For Lions fans, this is a sad reminder that you still haven’t felt the feeling that so many others have felt. Maybe someday you will. But until then, you have to annually watch fans have the time of their lives and it sucks.
Your time is coming
If you watched this first half and you still don’t think Jared Goff can win a Super Bowl, go home, you’re drunk. Great defenses, yes, but Darnold and Maye can’t create anything. Ugh.
No one...and I mean ABSOLUTELY NO ONE has any clue whether this will be a good hire or a bad hire. You all HATED:
Dan getting hired
The Lions waiting till the 4th rd to draft a WR in 2021
The Gibbs pick
The Campbell pick
Extending Anzalone
Trading up for Jamo
Laporta over Mayer
Promoting Ben Johnson
Firing Aubrey Pleasant
Drafting TeSlaa
The Brad Holmes hire
Keeping Sewell at RT....so how about waiting because unless you're doing hours and hours and hours of tape watching, note taking and comparing rosters, plays, situations and understanding the game...you're a fan that's upset because they didn't hire the name you wanted. Just like when you bitch and trades, free agents or draft picks...
And don't bring up, Za'Darius, Manu, Davenport or trading assets or the OL, blah blah blah...save it. There's an argument for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE....but the Lions have done far more good than bad with this regime.
Mike Valenti’s full rant on why he is confused by the hate from the Lions hiring Drew Petzing as OC:
“He’s shown the ability with a bad franchise & a bad team & a QB that people mock — that he’s able to produce a Top 10 run game. So what would he be able to do here with upgrades all across the board? I’d like to think there’s a window into it working … I’ll add some things to the Petzing resume, and again I’m not giving this some A+, but I always find it laughable that people want to pan something — people didn’t even know this guy existed 10 minutes ago. Take a breather. Either listen to the words I’m saying or do the research yourself … How about the fact that the guy worked with Kevin Stefanski? How about the fact that he was Baker Mayfield’s QB Coach? How about the fact that he knows Hank Fraley? He was a former TE Coach. Wants to use multiple TEs. Wants to run the football. Wants to set up his QB for play action. Isn’t that everything — if I take the name off it — that you want? … Is it because someone told you a guy is good? Is it because you heard a name once? Who is it exactly that if you hate Drew Petzing from the Ben Johnson-sphere — Who has the same ideas as Ben Johnson. And you’ve rescued him from a god-awful organization with a god-awful team in one of the best divisions in football … If you want to use the data from this year for what Petzing produced — Murray gets hurt & then they don’t invite him back. James Connor dies. The OL blows. Marvin Harrison was Herman Moore the early years with footballs bouncing off his head. The best receiver is Michael Wilson & Trey McBride. And they play the Rams twice. They play the 49ers twice. They play the Seahawks twice. Guys — What do you want me to say? That’s a gap year. He pulled the Doug Karsch study abroad routine & took a year off. I mean, come on. Two & three years ago they had a Top 10 rushing attack. But it still comes back to Kyler Murray. Goff is a clear upgrade & Goff fits what this guy wants to do. Is it the perfect hire? No — Who was? Mike McDaniel & what? What name was going to be mentioned today? Are you going to be touching yourself if it was Mike Kafka? Really?”
There's a lot of Lions people telling on themselves right now. Bashing the hire of a guy that they know nothing about nor have they ever turned on the film. They won't even bother to see how it correlates on the field and will ignore that Drew Petzing had Josh Dobbs and Jacoby Brissett running his offense in two of his three seasons in Arizona.
“Jared Goff needs everything to be perfect to have any shot at success.”
Jared Goff after:
• His mastermind OC took a new job
• His new OC sucked & got fired mid year
• His OL was god awful
• His run game underperformed
• He lost his All-Pro safety blanket TE to injury