Mr.TaterSalad

Do people forget how under Schwartz the Lions were undisciplined and were one of the most penalized teams in the league year after year? The lockeroom issues they had with in-fighting, a player sucker punching another player, fights at practice, all the arrests off the field in the 2011 and 2012 offseasons. This was one of the most undisciplined teams in the league. They weren't tough and edgy, they were dumb and penalized often. How about a Head Coach who doesn't even know the basic rules of the game, costing his team a game because he errantly through a challenge flag when he wasn't allowed to. How about Schwartz trying to physically fight Harbaugh on the field after a game. This doesn't even factor in the terrible OC Schwartz hired in Scott Linehan with his predictable, uncreative play calling. Linehan running the ball frequently on second and long, just surrendering second downs time and again and again. Linehan who enabled Stafford to be an interception machine at time. And did Schwartz make a change, no he stuck with him for the entire tenure of his career here. Then we come to the collapse at the end of the 2013 season. They were 7-5, leading the division over mediocre Green Bay and Chicago teams. Schwartz choked it away completely. Now, that was as much on Stafford playing like dog**** down the stretch as it was on Schwartz, so I forgive him somewhat for that end of season collapse. Let's not kid ourselves though and take the rose colored glasses off a bit. Schwartz was not a good Head Coach. Did he have great talent to work with at all times? No, Mayhew was dreadful at drafting outside of the first round. He didn't get to field quality teams like Campbell does. We don't fully know what type of personnel input Schwartz had here. If he had any input, they managed to draft a RB with concussion concerns in the first round and a TE with hands of stone in the first. They also drafted a WR with no ACL in either leg and another WR who was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. They drafted a RB who cared more about smoking grass than playing football and got arrested with weed all over his car. They also held a roster spot for Andre Fluellen year after year. I feel Schwartz could have stepped in at some point to try and veto anyone of those picks. Maybe he did try and Mayhew took them anyways. But there is a reason why in a league that has so many retread coaches, Jim Schwartz has never gotten another opportunity in the 12 years since he last coached us.

I wouldn't say this is the case and I don't feel bad for him. When he was here his defense's, from stats I went back and read, were ranked 32nd, 19th, 23rd, 27th, and 15th. He was largely a defensive disaster here and if it weren't for Suh, we'd have had one of the worst defenses in the league. He might have been good elsewhere, but he certainly wasn't here.

If Belichick had the exact same team as he had, but a QB like Goff or Stafford, instead of the greatest to ever play the position, what kind of career would he have had? I would still presume there would be a Super Bowl or two in there.

Well, hopefully his play doesn't fall off a cliff as he approaches 38 years old by the end of this deal. Otherwise, we'll be paying someone nearly $4 million to sit on the bench or play in Grand Rapids.

3 years? So He'll be 38 at the end of this deal. That part I don't like at all. He's having a good season so far and I guess that's what he's being rewarded for. But it isn't like he has lit the world on fire since he's been here. I don't love this deal and would not have done it for a little over half a season of good play.

I've said it for years. Many of these MAGA podcasters and journalists are Bull Connor with a microphone or pen instead of a firehouse and dogs.

I read through the rules and it is indeed correct they must be employed for two full seasons with the organization. I wasn't aware of the two seasons portion of the rule. I thought it would be a farce if the Chargers hired McDaniel and then two weeks later he goes and takes a HC job and they would then get a comp pick for that. Luckily, that's not the case.

Can't wait for the Chargers to get a comp pick if Mike McDaniel ends up taking one of the open jobs. We shoulda hired McDaniel, let him take a job this cycle, then hired Petzing as the OC after all. We coulda got our guy and our comp pick. Brad and Dan should be fired for not thinking this through.

What I meant by only for coordinators was if a coordinator of color becomes a HC. So we wouldn't get one if a position coach becomes an OC, DC, or STC correct?

Do we get a comp pick for Montgomery leaving and getting a promotion or is that only for coordinators?

If Trump simply returned to first term Trump I think his approval numbers would go up and he would be somewhat less of a drag for the GOP on midterm elections (should we still have them).

Schwartz would be the first, full time Lions Head Coach to get another Head Coaching job after being fired by The Lions. I know **** Juron was technically the first former Lions coach to get another full time job. But Juron was only the interim coach here. This could be one more step in breaking the curse if Schwartz gets this job.

I kept thinking and waiting all season that Florida would get healthier, turn it around, sit all the little kids in the division down, and take over once again. That hasn't happened. In-fact, they're probably going to miss the playoffs at this point, barring a miraculous comeback. I believe they will be the first Stanley Cup Champions since the 14-15 Kings team to miss the playoff after winning The Cup.

I mean, in his debut game in the league he blew out Matt Patricia and essentially exposed him as a fraud and a terrible coach right from game one. So he did us a Lions fans all a favor there.

Cool, trade down to get an extra pick so he can turn around and package that pick with 3 other picks to move up in the 3rd round and get a project player. I really am only partially kidding.

McVay pulled a Dan Campbell there. That was dumb not to take the FG there.

McVay is a moron. A blown timeout and then a playcall to throw it INBOUNDS when you have 10 seconds left and no timeouts.

**** this, the rich just get richer and the poor just get poorer. Being a Detroit Lions fan feels like signing up for a lifetime of emotional torture. I say that as someone who, like all of us here, still shows up every season hoping the season will go different and we'll finally make a Super Bowl. What makes it even harder is watching how easy other fanbases seem to have it, especially in New England. While we all relive another Lions failed season, Patriots fans are casually talking about their next Super Bowl appearance like it is a normal part of life. They complain about minor setbacks that would feel like miracles here in Detroit. I would trade decades of misery for even one stretch of sustained success like they have had. For just one ****ing Super Bowl apperance. Forgetc winning, just get us all one shot in the big game. And now here we are again, watching the Patriots cruise their way to another Super Bowl, seemingly handed the smoothest path imaginable. They had a historically easy regular season schedule and a cupcake playoff path. Everything falls their ****ing way and they get breaks we could only dream of as Lions fans. After a few short years of rebuilding they're right back in the Super Bowl. Just unreal to see how good some fanbases have it and how bad it gets for us sometimes.

**** this, the rich just get richer and the poor just get poorer. Being a Detroit Lions fan feels like signing up for a lifetime of emotional torture. I say that as someone who, like all of us here, still shows up every season hoping the season will go different and we'll finally make a Super Bowl. What makes it even harder is watching how easy other fanbases seem to have it, especially in New England. While we all relive another Lions failed season, Patriots fans are casually talking about their next Super Bowl appearance like it is a normal part of life. They complain about minor setbacks that would feel like miracles here in Detroit. I would trade decades of misery for even one stretch of sustained success like they have had. For just one ****ing Super Bowl apperance. Forgetc winning, just get us all one shot in the big game. And now here we are again, watching the Patriots cruise their way to another Super Bowl, seemingly handed the smoothest path imaginable. They had a historically easy regular season schedule and a cupcake playoff path. Everything falls their ****ing way and they get breaks we could only dream of as Lions fans. After a few short years of rebuilding they're right back in the Super Bowl. Just unreal to see how good some fanbases have it and how bad it gets for us sometimes.

A bad hire. It seems they were interested in treading water more than trying to blow it all up and rebuild.

Do the Chargers get a comp pick next year for a black coach being hired?

I get Brad falling in love with a guy and wanting his guys during the draft. I have no problem with that generally as I trust is scouting process. It's what got us St. Brown, Joseph, and Mahogany. Even when it fails in the case of a Brodric Martin I'm willing to be forgiving, if a bit critical of those types of moves where he gives up capital to move up. The Hooker one never, ever made an ounce of sense though. Even if Hooker was a guy Holmes had eyeballed for whatever reason, if he didn't plan to draft and develop him as a Jared Goff replacement, there was no reason for him to be taken. A clear waste of a pick that could have went into finding another starter.

What made Hendon Hooker one of his guys? Was Jared Goff not one of his guys when he drafted Hooker? Were we looking at having a dual-QB or platoon offense? Was Hooker trade bait in hopes that he'd develop and you could flip him for more in the future?

So is Trump's deal on Greenland just him folding like a bitch? What exactly did we get out of all this bluster and market volatility exactly? I thought we were going to get the whole of the island or ay minimum, all the mineral rights? So what did we end up with?

What a songwriter, what a song. John Moreland is a true poet.