We have had some bad signings but Flowers & Damien Woodey are 2 guys I can think of that were high priced guys who were total flops. Rick Wagner & TJ Lang are honorable mentions.
I would quite put Lang in there. He did make a pro bowl playing for us. Unfortunately his body just couldn’t hold up. He did play at a high level when he did play though.
The 2011 lions could have been a lot better if they’d started the rookie cap earlier. We would have had suh, Johnson and stafford on rookie deals. They would have had a ton of extra cap space to build a more complete roster.
I put TJ Lang at the top of bad FA signings. That dude came here and basically took a dive and played next to no games until he retired with a bunch of Lions cash in his bank account
But if you keep teams on edge it also opens up other things… and it doesn’t mean at a totally unexpected time, say a 4th and 9, you don’t run the same thing. They gained plenty of yards on those fakes.
I don’t think he blew his wad. He did what needed to be done and setting teams up to game plan for those things may be beneficial down the road.