As i agree that this spot is “frequently” clickbait you got me to read it, well done.
For me it still falls into clickbait.
he references the salary savings and addition of Arnold and Vaki as “almost nothing” it’s what they got out of it, which was close to nothing.
then The Lions walked out of this trade with Hendon Hooker, Brodric Martin, and Antoine Green. No, that wasn’t it.
Yea, what Holmes took over at the time the salary savings was important for what he had to do with the condition the team was in.
Arnold equals almost nothing? Yes he walks it back a little
Vaki, could be a special teams player for a while in Detroit. which the front office values.
Plus, I don’t believe Hock fit the culture Holmes and Campbell wanted.
So, yea, for me this is clickbait as the foundation is weak for the article it’s why I rarely if ever post links to these type sites. Focusing more on the Detroit paper articles.
Sign me up for making this deal again. If I remember right (certainly should be questioned), Hock was going to hit FA and we weren’t going to pay him. Cutting losses, securing some form of value when you know you are going to lose a player when you really are not in serious contention makes sense to me. This year I would hate to see a trade like this, but this year’s context is different than that year’s context.
The Lions weren’t going to pay Hockenson. It was either trade him or let him walk and hope for a comp pick, and Brad chose to trade him and get multiple picks instead of one. The only other way this could have backfired would be if Hockenson was great for the Vikings and the Lions failed to bring in a TE at least as good as him as a replacement. Since LaPorta has been at least as good as a receiver and far superior as a blocker than Hockenson, that reason for it being a bad trade doesn’t hold up either.
The blocking is what really got me. He was supposed to be the grand poo bah of blocking and he put very little effort in. Probably played a large part in his departure.
We will see how they feel when Hock blows another blocking assignment this year and gets JJ killed. Or tips another ball up into the air and it shows up for JJ as an interception.
Hock can be very good but not consistently. The year we traded him more than 1/2 Goff’s ints were with Hock as the target if I recall correctly. He was not and is not worth the salary but you can’t see that on a stat sheet.
I do recall that movie….barely. I forget the name but he was an air marshal on a plane or cop. Something like that. Too lazy and too busy to look it up.
and terrible D were the main factors in the Lions failure during Goff’s first year and a half here
