Jason_R

cough Matt Patricia cough

FWIW I'm not saying Johnson shouldn't be interviewed or even hired. I can see why a GM or owner might think, "This guy got more out of Goff than Sean McVay." If McVay is your point of comparison, and Johnson compares favorably to him, I can see why you'd roll the dice, knowing that this is the only way to pry Johnson from Detroit. Sheila (probably under the influence of Spielman) took a different approach. She didn't hire a brainy coordinator to be head coach. Instead she hired someone with the personality and experience to lead men and represent the franchise. Maybe Johnson has that. Maybe he can develop it over time. And if he gets hired away I hope he succeeds. Anyway, even if he gets a job as an NFL head coach and fails at it, the going rate for a first time head coach is around four years/$5 million per, so he would walk away from his "failure" with $20 million.

Most fans don't watch the Lions. We watch the Lions and know they've turned a corner, so it didn't seem like an upset to us. It was more of a coming out party.

I agree and if I were an owner I would not hire him. It is hard to imagine a guy with one year of experience as a coordinator being prepared to be the face of a franchise. Related, Sheila didn’t hire DC because of his Xs and Os. Nobody ever said or thought DC was a hot coaching candidate. But he oozes leadership. He has been an incredible face for the Lions franchise.

DC is way smarter than he looks. If he turns the Lions into a Super Bowl winner his fame will transcend football.

Elite level athletes, and dawgs. Is Bijan Robinson a dawg? He is certainly en elite athlete and a three-down player. But if he got that dawg in him he might be a Lion with pick 18.

Don’t forget this front office traded up to pick a WR largely on the strength of his special teams tape. Yes Jaymo can fly, but Holmes said something like “He got that dawg in him.” So if someone ranks prospects by how much of that dawg they got in them, I’d like to see it.

Detroit: “All your Ja. Williams are belong to us.”

It’s not just the players, it’s that Brad Holmes has absolutely crushed two drafts. Legitimately eight starters/regular contributors in two drafts and five more who could turn into good players. If he continues to be able to draft starters in rounds 3 and after, there is no ceiling for this franchise. It really is astonishing the talent he has brought in, with another massive opportunity to draft this spring.

He will break Jamaal Williams’s TD record next season. 😉

I agree. Every team in the NFC playoff field is breathing a sigh of relief that Seattle got in and not Detroit or AA-rod.

With four INTs over two games.

Detroit’s rebuild is officially way ahead of schedule.

I can’t believe what I just saw! Edit: I was typing that before Collinsworth said it.

Why did they decline the penalty?

Have a nice off-season, Packers.

Twice the refs spotted us at the two inch line. Seriously?

Get lost chump. Punk move by Quay Walker.

Man that was beyond a stupid penalty. It was inexplicable. Like someone check his meds because it seems like he's hearing voices.

Lions ball.

Nice defensive play.

I live out of market and don’t see many games but the lineup card on the DRW FB page shows Seider paired with Walman and Chiarot paired with Hronek. Is this real? If so, is it new?

If (pure speculation) this was related to substance abuse, it is easy to imagine that Caps front office would have heard rumors that Wings front office had not. Whatever the story was, everybody in the NHL was undoubtedly calling everyone else for gossip on Vrana as soon as he went into the program. Fans don’t know the reason but I suspect everyone in the NHL has a good guess. It was a surprise to us that he was waived and cleared waivers, but is maybe not a big surprise to insiders.

Baker Mayfield has something to play for.

Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. The key is whether they are prepared to re-sign Swift in 2024. He will probably be looking at a contract like Austin Ekeler signed for four years, $6.125 million per year, with about $14 million guaranteed.