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I don’t think Brock Purdy is Tom Brady. I do think Brock Purdy is a testament that the Russell Wilson/Matt Stafford manner of selling the farm for a QB is not the only way to build a successful team.

I think Sean Payton to the Chargers might be a sure thing by this time next week. Does the Rooney Rule apply if you trade for a coach?

0% chance Staley can keep his job

Super Wildcard Weekend really demonstrates the tiers that exist in the NFL. There are 8 or so really good teams and then everybody else. I think the Lions would have been competitive with the 49ers. I’m not sure they would have won. The 49ers are a complete team. You can plug and play a rookie 7th rounder and still win. The Lions aren’t as complete and I think the 49ers offensive line would have had success moving the ball on the ground.

Im pretty sure we would have played better than Jacksonville is at home.

Brock Purdy looks like he just led his team to a middle school championship as a 6th grader playing up.

The scam artist who spun a 35-40 record at Texas Tech into a 28-37-1 record in the NFL is taking his talents to the international scale.

ASB deserved it over CeeDee Lamb. But Dallas will get picked over Detroit all day everyday.

If you told me only one Lion was named to an All Pro team, I’m not sure Kalif would be in my first ten guesses. Good for him all the same, but there were some serious snubs on this squad.

I don’t think this franchise would have complained when WCF was owner. Doesn’t make it sting less but I’m glad the powers that be raised the objection.

The any other team in the NCAA made me chuckle. Watch him take his talents to the Oakland University Club Football team, just to fuck with everybody.

I agree, but it started with Sewell's selection. On both sides. Some of the first reactions to the pick were about how long it would be until he replaces Decker on the left side, and I think he took the pick at least a little bit personally. And then everything just compounded with his injury, and the fan criticism, and then his comments to the media.

They mic'd up Taylor in this one. Between the injuries, the media comments, and the trade rumors that plagued 2021, it was clear he didn't take the Penei selection well to start. Credit to Decker and to this coaching staff for persevering through that. He had a really, really nice season this year.

I expect it will be someone in the television industry... or they'll poach Jim Phillips from the ACC.

With the updates surrounding Ono, I don’t think Warde will be much longer for the job. Not a good sign when the biggest boss has to come in and clean up your mess, especially when it’s on this scale.

It’s not going to be possible to separate Campbell’s impact from Johnson’s until/unless they separate. My intuition is that they’re both good, but it’s not as if Campbell will ever say “it’s all me”

That might be a contest the Browns can finally win!

The worst was the end when he literally downplayed the Lions excitement, labeling it as “not the story here”…. Because Aaron Rodgers was - wait for it - …. Walking off the field.

They don’t need it the same way the draft doesn’t need to be three days. Doesn’t mean people wouldn’t tune in.

This is the only reason I could see the owners doing it. Yet another event to sell to the public, and in the March/April timeframe that isn’t monetized yet. I don’t think the chronically bad team owners would give the okay though.

I think from 2015-2020, he just didn't want a job in the NFL and was genuinely happy at Michigan. In 2020, the awful season at Michigan made him toxic... If so, this is only his second season trying to get a job in the NFL again. He's burned some bridges in the NFL, but not enough to never get a job again (IMO).

Reviewing the NFL's official hiring, firing, and interview tracker, I was surprised to not see any Lions front office folks on the GM lists for the Titans or Cardinals. Not that I'm complaining, but what the scout team here has done in just two years has been nothing short of remarkable.

I get why teams are intrigued. If I was a Panthers or Colts fan, I would want my team interviewing Ben Johnson. At the same time, I think he would have to absolutely blow me out of the freaking water in that interview to get me to hire him this cycle. For instance, without being in the interview rooms, I think that teams are pretty stupid if they hire Ben Johnson over Jim Harbaugh. On one hand, you've got what could be a good, young, up-and-coming coach who at his best could take my team into the future of the NFL as offensive schemes go. On the other, you have a coach who has gone 44-19-1 as an NFL coach. Even Mike McDaniel, who I agree would be the closest comp to a Ben Johnson hiring, at least came from the Mike Shanahan coaching tree that produced Kyle Shanahan, Matt LaFleur, and Sean McVay, and had been with the 49ers for four years. With Ben Johnson, we are talking about a guy who has spent one year as a coordinator (two years with the regime), before which he was on a Matt Patricia coaching staff, before which he was on an Adam Gase coaching staff. There is also the question that's been discussed here, in how much of the offense is him and how much is Dan Campbell. Is a team sure they want to bet the next 2-3 years minimum on someone whose prominent resume point is as the offensive coordinator to an offensive-minded head coach, who is likely himself a finalist for COTY? My point is that hiring Ben Johnson would be a huge gamble in a billion dollar industry. Teams may be willing to take it. But with only five jobs open (so far), I think guys like DeMeco Ryans, Kellen Moore, Dan Quinn, Jim Caldwell, and Jonathan Gannon, who have gone through a few of these cycles now (if not a HC job already) and have a proven track record, have a leg up. That's even before considering teams who may be friendly to Jim Harbaugh and Sean Payton. When the dust settles, I don't think he finds a match in this cycle. I do think that if the Lions meet their newfound expectations next season and win the North, both Glenn and Johnson are likely gone.

I still don’t think he goes. Even McVay was an OC for three years in Washington before he got a job. Johnson might end up a finalist somewhere but I still think an NFL ownership team will want more than one year of being an OC at a 9-8 club. I could be wrong. He’s appealing.