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Wojo: Time for Matt Stafford to Say Goodbye to Detroit Lions

January 03, 2021, 10:55 PM

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Matthew Stafford (Photo: Detroiot Lions) 

By all accounts, Matt Stafford is a good guy, and a talented one at that. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 2009 and has been playing with the team ever since.

But after so many losing seasons, Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News writes that it is time for the 32 year old to go:

It can’t go on like this, and I doubt Stafford wants it to go on like this. It’s time for him to leave, for his own sake, and time for the Lions to untether themselves from their longtime crutch, for their own sake. In the aftermath of the 37-35 loss to the Vikings Sunday at Ford Field, all the talk was about the future. If this were a meaningful game, the talk would’ve been about dreadful officiating calls against the Lions, although ultimately that helped because this was a game they could only win by losing.

The Lions will get a higher draft slot, at least in the top seven, by finishing 5-11. Soon they will have a new GM and coach. They should have a completely new defense because this group was horrifically outmanned, surrendering the most yards and points in team history, the ashes of Matt Patricia’s amazingly awful reign.

Stafford wasn’t the problem Sunday and hasn’t been the primary problem in most of his 12 seasons here. But he hasn’t been the solution either, no matter how badly the Lions wanted it, no matter how many times they tried to pin everything on him, while either ignoring or failing everywhere else. You know, football basics such as fielding a defense or developing a running game.

The Lions once again had a pathetic season, ending up in the division's last place with a 5-11 record. 


Read more:  The Detroit News


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