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[Mitchrapp]

The ability to take a group of above average/good defensive players and take them to a number 2 ranking.

Elevating the talent you oversee.

And then turn them back into crap. Or did not see the first 5 games.

 

[tigermud]

We can all agree Joe Lombardi has to go...

I think we can all agree to that



http://www.springtrainingcountdown.com

 

[boogerlovejoy]

And then turn them back into crap. Or did not see the first 5 games.

Your offense can make your defense look worse. They have not played to last year.....but they played 3 pretty good games missing MULTIPLE starters and his best player.......or did you not see the first 5 games?

 

[Mitchrapp]

Your offense can make your defense look worse. They have not played to last year.....but they played 3 pretty good games missing MULTIPLE starters and his best player.......or did you not see the first 5 games?

I'm curious who those 3 games were against? One thing I know, Seattle, terrible OL. Denver, terrible OL. SD, terrible OL. If you blame our OL for lack of an offense then the same should happen the other way. Or you could look at the 33, 26, 24 and 42 points they gave up. The defense way ranked, what 27-28? And that was before Arizona.

 

[boogerlovejoy]

I'm curious who those 3 games were against? One thing I know, Seattle, terrible OL. Denver, terrible OL. SD, terrible OL. If you blame our OL for lack of an offense then the same should happen the other way. Or you could look at the 33, 26, 24 and 42 points they gave up. The defense way ranked, what 27-28? And that was before Arizona.

Where did I blame our OL??

The defense has not been great.....but points???

Your right......we shouldn't give up points when the opponent starts their drive at the 4 yard line. Stupid Austin!!!!

 

[brewer229]

Also gave up a 99 yard drive to be fair.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Where did I blame our OL??

The defense has not been great.....but points???

Your right......we shouldn't give up points when the opponent starts their drive at the 4 yard line. Stupid Austin!!!!

Or when they start on their own 1 and 12 seconds later score a TD. Or the last TD where basically a guy that really plays rips off a long TD run. But everyone seems to blame the offense even for the defensive shortcomings. The defense makes their own bad plays. And last year the offense wasn't much better and yet our D dominated.

 

[sggatecl]

Also gave up a 99 yard drive to be fair.

Big play Slay.

 

[biggunsbob]

Caldwell blows..

 

[tigermud]

Should Dan Gilbert Buy The Detroit Lions? Lesson Says It’s His Lifelong Dream

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2015/11...oit-lions-lesson-says-its-his-lifelong-dream/


By Christy Strawser

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) Jim Caldwell blamed the media for negativity after another abysmal start to the season led to numerous editorials and public comments calling for the Lions to be sold away from the Ford family.


It’s so bad that conflicted fans filled message boards on trade deadline day yesterday, begging the team to let go of Calvin Johnson so Megratron can get what he deserves on a team capable of achieving it — a Super Bowl ring.


Piling on, some fans are so frustrated there are a couple of go fund me accounts from folks trying to raise money to buy the team.


The Ford family, which has owned the team since William Clay Ford Sr. bought controlling interest in 1963, is taking a rash of blame for decades of crushing fans with lackluster seasons.


Current owner Martha Ford is 90 years old and the family has given no indication of their plans of succession. Is any family member interested in keeping the Lions? Who would rise to the management forefront? Or will they sell?


WWJ’s Jeff Lesson, who grew up with flashy Detroit billionaire and Midtown reviver Dan Gilbert, thinks he has the answer. If the family ever decided to sell, they should sell it to Gilbert.


“It has been his lifelong dream to own the struggling franchise and turn it around,” Lesson said live on WWJ Wednesday morning, adding “There could not be a better choice.”


He said he knows “for a fact” Gilbert really wants to own the Lions.
If true, and if the Lions ever came on the market, he would have to make some serious decisions. The NFL has stringent owner requirements, disallowing owners from having a major stake in any other team, even in another sport. NFL owner rules are fairly complicated and say an owner can own teams in other sports only if those teams are in the same city as the NFL franchise they own or in a city where there is no NFL team.
Notably, Gilbert made headlines last week for his Cavaliers’ payroll, spending enormous sums to lock up top players. Per ESPN, since the end of last season, the Cavs have spent nearly $300 million in new contracts, including $113 million to Kevin Love, $82 million to Tristan Thompson and $47 million to LeBron James.


Gilbert’s payroll is $175.6 million this season, the second-highest in league history.
“We’re committed; we’re all-in … When you invest in something like a sports franchise and you’re in for so much … if you at the margins start pulling back, I think that may be foolish on a lot of fronts,” Gilbert said to ESPN before the Cavs beat the Miami Heat 102-92. “We’re investing for the future as well as the current.”


What would spending like that do the Lions? Fans can only guess.
Many estimate if the Lions ever went on the market, they would sell for more than $1 billion. The most recent major sports team to change owners was the Clippers, which went for $2 billion in a sale to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Detroit booster Gilbert’s net worth is estimated at $4.5 billion


Sell the Team Martha! please

 

[zyxt9]

Honestly, I don't think he has the right mindset for what I would like in an owner. He seems more like the type to overspend to the hilt in an attempt to win it all, which in the salary cap era would mean the team would suck afterwards.

I don't want the Lions to be a rollercoaster, fly-by-night, one time only competitor. Fans deserve better than that. They deserve something more like what the Patriots have been able to accomplish. Sustained excellence over several years.

Despite the Tigers having more rollercoaster type of history than the Wings, the fact the Wings have sustained their playoff worthy level of play even with the NHL having a salary cap makes me lean more toward selling to Ilitch, if he is interested.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Honestly, I don't think he has the right mindset for what I would like in an owner. He seems more like the type to overspend to the hilt in an attempt to win it all, which in the salary cap era would mean the team would suck afterwards.

I don't want the Lions to be a rollercoaster, fly-by-night, one time only competitor. Fans deserve better than that. They deserve something more like what the Patriots have been able to accomplish. Sustained excellence over several years.

Despite the Tigers having more rollercoaster type of history than the Wings, the fact the Wings have sustained their playoff worthy level of play even with the NHL having a salary cap makes me lean more toward selling to Ilitch, if he is interested.

I'd take 1 SB and a bunch of crap years than what we have now. Which basically, is just a bunch of crap years. In fact I'd take 2 playoff wins, and a bunch of crap years then what we have now. Which, again, is basically crap.

 

[Mitchrapp]

See, the Lions are crap. 1 playoff win and 24 crap years is at least as good as now. Crap. 1 playoff wins and 50 crap years is better than what we have now.

 

[Mitchrapp]

In case I wasn't clear, Lions are crap.

 

[inkfreq]

The saddest part about it is, if Martha Ford lives to be 100, and the Lions somehow managed a .750 record for the remainder of her life, she would still pass away with a losing record. She basically has zero change, without about 8 undefeated seasons in a row, of getting the family record into the win column.

 

[cmlfactor]

1 playoff win in 53 years. ONE!!! Incredible to think about. One CC appearance. Two first round byes. In 53 years. There is no such thing as a "curse." There is only mentalities and people...and this family has bred the worst of both for over half a century....

 

[Mitchrapp]

1 playoff win in 53 years. ONE!!! Incredible to think about. One CC appearance. Two first round byes. In 53 years. There is no such thing as a "curse." There is only mentalities and people...and this family has bred the worst of both for over half a century....

After this season it's be 1 in 58.

 

[kalinecountry]

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...t-lions-sell-the-team-martha-ford/4358277002/
'Sell The Team' Detroit Lions shirts depicting Martha Ford flood the internet.
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