RE: 2015 NFL thread
October 28, 2015 at 9:32 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2015 at 9:34 pm by Faith No More.)
(October 27, 2015 at 8:02 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: That would be a big surprise to Lions fans?!? This is the team who pissed away the talent of arguably the greatest running back to ever play the game. Them trading or even cutting Stafford outright wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Then you don't know the Lions organization. Sure, they pissed away Sanders' talent, but the one thing they refused to do was let him play for anyone else. They were such bastards about it that he chose to retire, because he wasn't able to leave.
There is absolutely no way they're just going to abandon the franchise quarterback that got them to the playoffs for the first time in 20 years, especially with the Johnson/Stafford combo having been so successful in the past. They'd pretty much have to get rid of Johnson, too, because without a decent quarterback, there's no way they can justify paying Johnson what he can demand. They've spent the last seven years building this team around Stafford, and the Lions have been better than they have in two decades. Even the Lions aren't dumb enough to abandon all of that over one bad season, especially when it's not his fault the team sucks. They have one of the worst offensive lines in the league.
No, if anything, they'll hold onto him for too long.
