Detroit Lions Gets Ferocious New Logo – Still Pegged For 0-16

April 22, 2009 by admin
Filed under: NFL Football Betting 

For forty-eight embittered seasons, the Detroit Lions have stormed forth with the same old logo. After years of NFL futility, zero Superbowl in the last 50 years, Matt Millen as a GM and the infamous 0-16 season from 2008. The new logo is supposed to bring change and hope to a franchise stuck in a rut that is only reflected by the morbid financial state of Detroit itself.

Last season speaks for itself. Between Dan Orlovsky getting chased out of the endzone, to blowing an 18-point at half to lose by 18-points when they played Tampa in Week 12, and the only sign of hope in Detroit as the signing of Daunte Culpepper, the 2008 season is one that fans and betting enthusiasts would like to forget. Detroit ranked 27th in league offense with an abysmal 16.8 points per game. The only thing that the Lions “led” the league in was points allowed, getting burned for 32.2 points per game.

The only glowing mark on the Detroit roster is a man known as, “Megatron”. Calvin Johnson is one of the best receiver prospects to ever enter the ranks of the NFL and showed unbelievable talent and poise when playing last year. Injuries slowed the beast down, but this season shows promise because Detroit possess two first-round picks.

The Lions have the first and twentieth selections in the 2009 Draft and holy crap do they need help everywhere. The pick that most people are expecting is Matthew Stafford from Georgia, but I’m hardly excited by that selection. How many times has a first-round quarterback won the Superbowl? Only six quarterbacks taken in the first round have won the big game (Elway, Aikman, the Mannings, Roethlisberger and Trent Dilfer). Is Stafford the heal all for Detroit? Hardly.

This pick is deep when it comes to offensive linemen too so the first pick certainly can’t be dished on a lineman. But the problem with this draft for Detroit is two-fold. First of all, they desperately need a quarterback and that’s without question. With the twentieth selection, they can certainly find an offensive lineman to bolster their terrible line.

My problem here is that defense was just as big of a pot hole as the offense was. There’s only one legitimate superstar in this group besides maybe Michael Crabtree. And that man is the 6-foot-1, 254 pound behemoth from Wake Forest named Aaron Curry. As a Demon Deacon and as at the combine, Curry was a force of nature and is being described as the only sure thing in the NFL draft. Why wouldn’t Detroit bank on probability instead of taking a chance at quarterback?

I completely understand the need to find a franchise quarterback, but that position is so iffy in the draft. You could get an Elway, or you could get a Ryan Leaf. You really have no idea. It’s a crapshoot at best. So when you have to fill every single known position anyways, why not take the safest – and best – player in the draft?

The Lions could surely spice things up with Curry, or bank on Stafford being the best quarterback ever. Which one do you think is more likely? If I were the Lions, I’d probably sift away from taking chances.

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