Yeah i'm not getting confident and comfortable until after week 12 or so and they are still winning games. Definitely enjoying the ride so far, this is about the time during the season where I stop watching the Lions, around week 7-8 or so because they are already eliminated usually.
I will say what makes me a true believer after all these years of trauma is that William Clay Ford is no longer alive. I’m sure he was a lovely man but he couldn’t have been a worse professional franchise owner lol. When he bought the farm in 2014, Martha Ford had a new sense of urgency her husband never had. Unfortunately, that brought in the Quinntricia debacle.
Fast forward to 2020 and her turning the team over to Sheila Hamp (she dropped the Ford, folks) and it’s been like a completely new organization. She brings in actual football people so the Lions can be run like a real professional sports franchise for the first time since 1962 (WCF bought the team November 22, 1963 which, had JFK not been assassinated, may have been the darkest day in the country’s history, if you’re a Lion’s fan).
What’s different this time, is that the Lions have a GM who drafts well, finds starters late in the draft. Almost all of the best players on the team are home grown on rookie deals so it will be sustainable and not just a one year run. These players are only going to get better. All 3 units are playing well, rather than just having a good offense or a good defense like in years’ past.
And then on top of all that, they obviously have the coach who the players love. The GM, coach, and ownership are all on the same page and ownership isn’t interfering like WCF was notorious for.
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