Saint Barry 2.0?

Have the Lions done it again?!

Have they again managed to beat the joy out of the game for another once in a generational talent? It seems possible. CJ is considering retirement. The spin control is going to tell us all sorts of comforting things. Lions PR (employees and their lap dog press) will tell us about the toll the game takes on a player mentally and physically being CJ's reasoning. It is all going to sound good because the truth elephant rampaging around isn't easy to deal with in reference to the Lions.

The truth is, if the Lions were a yearly competitive team, CJ would be having fun and when you are having fun, pain is more tolerable. Losing sucks and it makes the pain less tolerable. CJ knows another rebuild is coming. He has seen plenty of them in his time and each and every one of them has been a miserable failure. He knows who is doing the hiring. The same idiots that did the hiring for his entire career. (Note 1 below). Why would he continue to savage his body for inept owners that don't, beyond seat filling lip service, genuinely want to win? Would you want too?

CJ has his money. He has had unmitigated success on a horrible team run by incredibly inept owners. He doesn't have anything else to prove except winning a title and that is NOT happening in Detroit for the remainder of his contract. CJ has very good to great years left in him and that is the true hard part for us fans. But to CJ this all has to seem stunningly simple too him. There just isn't enough winning happening with the team to offset the pain of playing a game that destroys everyone eventually.

In short, Fuck you inept FORDS!

(note 1) Caldwell hasn't been fired yet. The Green Bay game alone was reason to fire him. That kind of mistake you expect out of a high school coach. Not a professional NFL coach. And the crazy thing, it is far from an outlier. The guy is a terrible game manager on every level. The fact that Ford has come out saying she supports Caldwell says all I need to know. She is just as fucking clueless as her deceased husband.