We will have a new coach next year. We don’t even know what kind of team we will have. Do the new people want Culpepper,Orlovsky ,Henson or whatever? We are starting from zero once again.
Good! That’s a step up from where you are this year. 
It is just that we keep doing it. We have to settle on a coach ,install his philosophy and build on it. We went from run and shoot,to short pass offense ,to ground dominated offense to West Coast to whatever. Every change, the coach claims he has the wrong players . They should have kept Moeller.
No shit. Talk about making the easy joke, huh?
I mean, you’d think that after getting blue-chip talent in the draft year after year, we’d hit on at least a handful of game-changers, right? Nope. It almost defies all logic and convention.
To continue the Lions ways,what if we win a game? Am I right to think the Cincy tie would keep us a half game up for the top draft choice?
It will never change so long as the corporate culture of the Detroit Lions continues to be about doing something other than winning football games.
I have to believe that this comes straight from the owner. Nor does it surprise me, much; the Ford Motor Company hasn’t exactly been a “go for excellence in all we do” company, either, and this is a Ford who hasn’t been allowed to actually run the company (though he does have positions of importance with it). But one has to admit that the 90’s were a decent decade for the team, so it’s not impossible for them to accomplish good things under their current ownership. And we can’t lay ALL of that success at the feet of Barry Sanders, can we? :dubious:
So, frankly, I put most of this decade’s folly at the feet of the stupidity of putting Matt Millen at the head of the team. I thought it a bizzare move that the time, I still think it defied all logic, and I think the results were not a surprise. No matter how talented a speaker, no matter how nice-seeming a person, no matter how motivationally oriented he was, he simply didn’t know how to run a company. He’s a FOOTBALL player, for goodness’ sake, and a color commentator.
The contrast between the Detroit Lions and a franchise like the Pittsburgh Steelers is so incredible. Pittsburgh is a small, economically hard-hit industrial city, just like Detroit. The franchise is run by a family corporate man, just like the Lions are, more or less. But the Steelers consistently have shown, since the beginning of the 70s, an understanding of how to be a winning team, from top to bottom. When the Lions want to become a winning team, they need to go see how Pittsburgh does it, and then emulate that. Until then, they are doomed to wander the wastelands of mediocrity (which, for them, would be an upgrade at present). 
Oh, sorry, another cheap joke. I promise it will be my last for, oh, say a week. 
Furthermore, I think that the Ford family approaches the Lions as a pastime; as a jewel in the crown. The Rooney family want to win. Say what you will about Jerry Jones, but he wants toe Cowboys to win. Same with Al Davis, although I’m convinced that his real body is in a wax museum somewhere.
And of course it gets worse, as no team wants to be the team that spoiled Detroit’s perfect record.
“You are the only team they beat all season? How can you live with yourself?”
I think you’re going to get Matt Stafford or Sam Bradford, depending on who comes out and who performs best in the pre-draft period. Trading those picks is becoming nearly impossible - who wants to give up multiple cheap picks for one high pick?
Do you think Bradford is coming out? I would be thrilled if the Rams got Tebow.
I’m trying to talk my local waterin hole to have a 0-16 bash during the final game if they are still winless.
Got any fun ideas for promotions and specials?
I need a new drink and name also.
I heard an interesting ‘fact’ today, and I was wondering if anybody knew the truth of it.
Apparently back in the 50s and 60s, when the NFL was a third tier, nothing sport, far behind Baseball, Boxing, Bowling etc, they were desperate for TV sponsors to gain credibility. Supposedly Ford Motor, almost single handed, sponsored the TV exposure by buying half to 2/3s of the available Commercial time. Eventually it grew into the Behemoth it is today, and all the owners know they owe their billions from football to Ford motor, and the Ford family. Which is why they are never going to take away the Lions Thanksgiving spot.
Not just Ford. It was discussed a few years ago and the Big3 made it clear they would not support moving it. They constitute a great part of the ad money.
Besides the Lions will not always be bad. In a couple decades they may be a very good team. They have only been down for 50 years.
The Thanksgiving game is all we have.
$0.16 beer specials!
(OK, it’d probably have to be $0.16 per ounce.)
Can they get Lowenbrau on tap?
ETA: The $0.16 price and the Lowenbrau were separate ideas.
Who wants Tim Tebow badly enough? Would the Eagles pay?
Ha.
You see how ugly things got when they spent a 2nd-rounder on a quarterback… I can only imagine how nasty things would get in Philly if they drafted Tebow without trading McNabb first. And they won’t.
I actually think Seattle would be the perfect fit for Tebow - a year or two to learn under one of the best in the game, and the quiet Northeast would suit Tebow’s personality.
I know. That was a joke. The Eagles don’t pay for anything.
But yeah, there are a couple teams looking for a quarterback (the Lions included).
Sure, but this is not a good time to be drafting one; if there’s one lesson we can learn from perenially shitty teams, it’s that drafting a top-5 quarterback and sticking him behind the same shite offensive line that got your last quarterback killed is a sure recipe for remaining shitty.
See Bengals, Lions, Bears, Cardinals, Buccaneers, Chargers, etc.
What you want to do is find a journeyman, let him get killed while you build an offensive line- preferably entirely through the draft- and then stick your rookie back there.
IMHO, that’s why things are going so well in Atlanta- the Falcons, for all their shittyness last year, were the best running team in the league for three straight years before that, and their offensive line was pretty good even last year.