Motown Bombers

Holmes kind of suggests bringing in another QB. I really like the idea now to sign Bridgewater. Guy with a similar skill set to Hooker who also overcame a major knee injury. Could even be a better mentor than Goff.

I'm looking forward to LaPorta as well. After seeing his tape and his speed and run after the catch ability, the Lions have multiple options who just need to get them the ball. Gibbs and LaPorta and Williams can take catches short and turn them into big plays. I like Williams ability to take the top off the defense and open up routes underneath. Now you have to contend with St Brown, LaPorta and Gibbs over the middle while Williams is taking a safety deep down the field. One of the things I noticed when Goff came over from the Rams was that his heat map showed he was better than Stafford at short and intermediate passes over the middle. I really thought Hockenson was going to break out but it never materialized. Now he has multiple options in that short and intermediate range over the middle who can also run after catch.

In 4 of Kamara's 6 seasons he caught 80 or passes. That would be second on the Lions. Gibbs is the type of back who can line up at receiver. I almost look at Gibbs as a position less player. He someone you can put anywhere on the field and I would like to see formations where Montgomery and Gibbs are on the field at the same time.

Tiebreakers. It's the same rules that allowed Tampa to go to the playoffs with a worse record than the Lions.

I kind of looked at it the other way. Swift is from Philadelphia and probably preferred the Eagles so they accommodated him.

I don't see a measurement for grit?

Lions were without St Brown, Swift and Chark. Still hung 45 on them.

Seattle played the NFC South where no team finished above 500 and still went 0-4.

Not by the end of the year. Neither was Seattle.

Lions and Seattle had the same record, but the Lions had the better point differential, strength of schedule, strength of victory (Seattle was 3rd lowest in the NFC), and the Lions beat more playoff teams than Seattle.

They had the same record.

Yes and no. If the Lions didn't beat the Packers then Seattle misses the playoffs. It's why all of Seattle were Lions fans that night.

The Eagles had the 3rd most rush attempts in the NFL and the Bears were 2nd (Falcons were 1st). Dallas was 6th, Giants 8th, and 49ers 9th. The NFC does run it more than the AFC. Some of that is QBs like with Philadelphia and Chicago but a good LB with speed should help with that.

Seattle and Detroit had the same record and Seattle literally needed Detroit to get them into the playoffs.

This decline as the season went on should be troubling if you're on team Geno.

If they get 5 really good years out of Gibbs, that would be worth it. RBs, unlike other positions, can start and make an impact from day one. It it really better if you get 8 years from another position but it took a year or two to develop them?

You would think the Lions would want to button up the leaker. Teams can just read Charlie Campbell's to know who the Lions are going take.

Right and NYLion literally said career trajectory.

Had the Lions as day two winners. He also likes the Lions day one draft.

The team with the fewest rush attempts had 386 for the year. That's still over 22 per game. The league is passing the ball more but teams still run and QBs run more now than ever. A LB with sideline to sideline speed is valuable against these mobile QBs that gashed the Lions. Gibbs is often compared to Kamara who gets anywhere from 250-280 total touches per year. That's about 15+ touches a game. WRs aren't touching the ball that many times a season. Only a QB is.

They aren't. It's their career trajectories. Both Stafford and Goff had rather abysmal partial rookie seasons. Both then quickly peaked. Both then regressed and hit bottom around age 25-26. Both got new offensive coordinators around age 27 and both started to rebound and become less turnover prone passers under the new offensive coordinator. One had the narrative that he's only successful because of the coordinator while the other did not.