Stafford/Lions Reach Deal!!!

[johndoe]

Well it looks like Matt Stafford and the Lions were finally able to reach a deal. Another bust in the making if you ask me. Putting a 0-16 team on the shoulders of a young QB is a recipe for disaster.

Good luck to that organization, they are going to need it!!!

http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d80ff7434&template=without-video-with-comments&confirm=true

[nathlms]

He won't start. They will likely start Culpepper. But the 2 other qb's they had are gone. We have Orlovsky and the cowgirls have Kitna.

[Whiskeyrbl]

I see a david carr 2.0

[TexansRage123]

i think if he stays behind culpepper for like 2 years he would be better then just coming off the frontline...

[houstonsportsfan09]

i think if he stays behind culpepper for like 2 years he would be better then just coming off the frontline...

You think the Lions are that smart? They'll just throw him into the fire and let him go to work.

[Whiskeyrbl]

i think if he stays behind culpepper for like 2 years he would be better then just coming off the frontline...

Do you think they are gonna pay that kind of money for him to sit 2 years?

[TexansRage123]

look at VY...and russell is bout to hit the bench with jeff garcia there...

[houstonsportsfan09]

Do you think they are gonna pay that kind of money for him to sit 2 years?

And that too.

[Whiskeyrbl]

look at VY...and russell is bout to hit the bench with jeff garcia there...

I do and laughed everytime I watched Tenn. last year. But I see your point, they may just do that.

[TexansRage123]

waste of money. yes..but they are hoping the best comes for him while they are rebuilding whats gonna be around him...

[lilbush]

Bust alert........Detroit just can never make the right decision.

[zanth91]

Huge waste of money...

[HuttoKarl]

They'll probably sit him for a season and pray Culpepper stays upright. If they draft a nice Tackle at #20, then maybe Stafford will work out for them. Britton...maybe Oher drops...I think they would have been wiser to take Jason Smith and then the best defensive player on the board at 20 and got their QB next season...Bradford, McCoy, whoever.

[Heresy]

Jason Smith or Eugene Monroe would have been my pick, but I'm not the GM of a team that went 0-16 last year. I'm not sure throwing a qb, who was inconsistent in college, in there with an OL that can't block, is the smart move.

[thunderkyss]

waste of money. yes..but they are hoping the best comes for him while they are rebuilding whats gonna be around him...

I agree, with getting a franchise QB when you get a chance. If I'm the Detroit Lions, I don't expect to be drafting in the top 10 next year, so I would get my franchise now. Some folks don't believe Stafford is a franchise QB, but the Lions obviously felt differently.

I saw this as an opportunity for Detroit to make a big impact on Defense. If I were them, both first round picks would have been defense.... in their division, they've got to field a world class defense, just to be able to compete.

They still have an opportunity to make a strong defensive draft, but going QB with the first pick pretty much says they've got to build that offense. Again, looking at the division they are in, they need to dominate the run game. Kevin Smith should be fine, they signed Maurice Morris, if I were them, my second pick, would be interior OL.... and so would my third pick. I want the best guards/center I can get. Two guards, or a guard and a center.That's what they are going to need, to run the ball in the NFC North.

[HuttoKarl]

Jason Smith or Eugene Monroe would have been my pick, but I'm not the GM of a team that went 0-16 last year. I'm not sure throwing a qb, who was inconsistent in college, in there with an OL that can't block, is the smart move.

Do they still have the same GM?

[Boz]

Not picking Stafford and taking a 10 year OLT seems at least reasonable enough that they should have been able to leverage a better deal from the Kid
The Detroit fans would have been fine with it, especially since they understand "recession".

Just stupid money

And why won't Detroit be picking in the top 10 next year? What 10 teams will be worse?

[CoogBull]

This is a mistake for the Lions. A more prudent move on their part would have been to pick up a vet QB on the open market, get better in the trenches, and wait till next year when the draft is so much deeper in QBs. Next year you have Tebow, McCoy, and Bradford coming out. Anyone one of those three is head and shoulders over Stafford in my opinion.

The worst thing you can do, and we have proven this, is pick up a talented young guy and let him get crushed behind a terrible line. I am a big believer in the idea that it takes a great OL to win Super Bowls.

[TexanFan23]

Schwartz may be a decent coach and they have some decent draft picks. Who knows ? Maybe the Lions can show a huge improvement like Miami did. Still, an OT would have been a better pick at # 1. They could have taken one of the USC LB's at 20 or Freeman.

[Heresy]

Do they still have the same GM?

They fired Matt Millen, but their current GM was one of his assistants last year.

[TexanFan23]

They fired Matt Millen, but their current GM was one of his assistants last year.

Martin Mayhew is decent, I used to watch him play when he was the # 2 CB in Tampa. It seems he's doing a fairly good job in Detroit...

[Heresy]

Martin Mayhew is decent, I used to watch him play when he was the # 2 CB in Tampa. It seems he's doing a fairly good job in Detroit...

My tone may have implied that I was saying he was a bad GM. I meant to communicate that for better or for worse, he was part of a front office that didn't have a great track record at drafting players who would be successful in their system. It's quite possible that, like some of the execs at AIG, he was one of the few competent individuals stuck working with a bunch of poor decision-makers that outranked him.

[TexanFan23]

My tone may have implied that I was saying he was a bad GM. I meant to communicate that for better or for worse, he was part of a front office that didn't have a great track record at drafting players who would be successful in their system. It's quite possible that, like some of the execs at AIG, he was one of the few competent individuals stuck working with a bunch of poor decision-makers that outranked him.

No not at all :D I was just adding some more info about him re: him being a player at one point.