I don’t see the Lions as one or two players away from becoming an SB contender. A playoff contender maybe, although the competition in the NFC is tough, but I can’t see mortgaging the future for a chance at a wildcard spot. Yeah, an upgrade at RB would be nice, but IMHO nobody they could trade for is going to do much better running behind this OL.
Likewise, they aren’t in rebuilding mode either, so unless somebody makes them an offer they can’t refuse then you don’t get rid of good players for next to nothing. And spare me the crap about Diggs, he wasn’t a good player for us this year.
So, the Lions stood pat. Doesn’t mean they weren’t looking and talking, we’ll never know what was on the table or not. But eh, let’s see what they can do over the back half.
We’re a .500 team and we’re good to go. That’s what the front office is telling me. We are far from being a SB contender. The D is damn near last in the NFL and the run game is invisible.
Pretty much saying that the next loss is the final nail. Just tired of this shit and do understand that it takes two to make a deal but damn…
Nearly all of the impact players being mentioned had issues with their respective clubs. Tough to make a fair deal in those circumstances, especially after the Antonio Brown fiasco.
Lions fans want to win now. Hell, I am one of them but the Lions organization has been crap for decades and the quality of the players on this team over the years has been bad. People talk about the fact that the Lions went 9-7 two years running the two years before Patricia took over and that he needed to take the team over the hump. He was hired to do so but the hump was not just a one year thing it was going to take a few years to get talented players into different levels of the team and compete consistently with the good elite teams. Those years that we went 9-7 back to back we lived and died by Matthew Stafford’s heroics and carrying a team that was really a 4-5 win team to 9 wins. We are not a von miller or a bell or a melvin gordon away from super bowl contention and we need at least one more offseason of FA’s and quality system fitting draft picks to really begin to see the transformation. This year is about competing and continuing to change the culture and identity of the team.
This is really where they - and we - are at, like it or not. It sucks that wins were squandered early on because they could be sitting pretty right now for the second half of the season. But they do need another offseason to get this right IMO.
Where the team is, whether .500 or give or take a game one way or the other, I just don’t see a trade that could impact this season enough to justify the subtraction it would cost in the future.
Just have to build for a sustained climb.
Yeah, we are competitive and playoffs are the goal of course and we can be a playoff team, we see that, but I don’t think that is the only goal or the overall goal: sustained success is the overall goal. Becoming a steeler or patriot type of organization. Consistent.
Oh man is it hard. 8 months of an offseason is grueling. I just wanna see the Lions go on a 4-6 year (or more) run in contention and a Superbowl…see stafford play till he is 38-39 and the final 8 years of his career are filled with playoff wins and a title.
Not a bad way to look at it
Also, there simply were no good deals out there this year
I think Quinn keeps some powder on hand to be able totake advantage of opportunities
And he’ll do that any time he thinks it makes sense
(Not that he’ll bat 1000)