[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Hrycaj

I have quietly sat back and watched since I made this post after week 1. I am not some NFL genius. The cracks in this team were evident all off-season and then Ragnow retired on them. Some said to basically take a breath, it was week 1. That wasn’t bad advice, fans can get over emotional, but I knew this was different even though I was hoping to happily eat crow on Christmas; but it was for not. I recognize teams like New England and then Kansas City gave the optics that you can have sustained success in this league, I don’t buy it as much. Can you be relevant, absolutely, but to win a Super Bowl there is a window. Can the Lions get back there? Sure, I think they can, but they need to operate differently and they certainly wasted a golden opportunity by not trying to improve this team this last offseason.

I took thought Detroit would regress. But this was bad. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD bad.

You lose by 2 td's to a team playing for nothing & starting a 3rd string QB, who could muster but 3 yds net passing when you knew you had no margin for error? That ain't a crack. That's a crater. That is a loss that would make me, if I was owner, wonder if I should have let Campbell go to Chicago & kept Ben Johnson. That would make me hire a private detective agency & find out if any of my players or coaches been hanging out w/known gamblers or mobsters.

There is nothing you could tell me that could make me rationalize this loss made sense. This loss put Campbell on the hot seat. I'm not suggesting he would get fired next week. But I am saying he would have to show significant results for me not to fire him before 2027's season. As grouchy as I am about the Panthers, I think this loss was even worse than any of the 2 Carolina had to the Saints. The worst loss in the NFL this year.