Sig Sauer thoughts....

Ok, I never rant Mini but I do try :D

Let us start off at home

1) Our Lions are not a good team. They are a bad team built by an inept GM. Taking coaching into consideration, this is a top 5 pick team.

2) Edrop needs to STFU. He might feel that way. He might feel like he has justification to feel that way but that doesn't give him the right to open his mouth. He doesn't have the NFL chops. He just hasn't been around long enough. No one respects him.

3) If anyone needs to open their mouths about the Refs, it is the Owner. Not the Pres, not the GM, not the coaches, not the players. The owner needs to be the one to call out the other owners and the NFL as a whole.

4) The BS media about Martha being different from her husband is a load of shit. This woman is going to be dead sooner than later. She won't have time to make a palpable difference. If she lives to see a second Pres/GM hiring it would be surprising. She is a rookie owner without time to learn on the job. Speaking of that....

5) This whole succession of ownership to Martha and her stunningly apparent plan to Push Bill ford Jr. out of the picture in favor for her daughters has me entirely unsettled. I have seen sex oriented family power plays like this before in a myriad of situations and it almost never ends well for the business. That doesn't bode well for us as fans and it scares the hell out of me for the Lions future.

On the NFL,

1) The product is slipping in quality. In so many ways...

•  I know they need to sell ads to pay the bills but it is at a breaking point. Hogs get slaughtered.
• They need to adapt the college replay system. As the NFL's replay system works now, it kills all momentum in games far too often. The college game's system is far better. Swallow your pride NFL and adopt it.
• The rule book needs to be cleaned up. I don't necessarily think it needs to be simpler, although that would inevitably be the end end result, it just needs to be aligned better with what fans see on the field. If the rule book aligns with what fans see, there will be a ton less bitching about the refs.
• On those refs, Each crew needs to have 2 or 3 more added. One or two that is/are assigned to a sideline booth watching every play helping to speed up the reviews. The extra second or Third should be assigned on the field. It is apparent the game is just too fast for the crews as they are built now. Do something about it.

On the official death of our playoff hopes. Good. No more fans pretending we are something we aren't.

Finally, can we just get it over with and fire Caldwell? Keeping him around now is unfair to him and the fans. He will not be here next year and this season is over. On three separate occasions this year our Lions suffered losses that were horrible and on each occasion the Lions came out flat the next game. The players might like Papa Jim but they clearly either don't listen to him or his message and coaching is wrong; perhaps both.