Tearing the team down is the easiest part of the process of the rebuild. It's not hard to trade the older vets and get what you can for them and simply cut the other vets. Building it back up is going to be the hard part but if Fields works out then that will make everything else a hell of a lot easier for Poles.
The Lions have a hell of a roster to play with but they need Goff to be at least as good as he was last year which was pretty damn good. They did really nice work getting Cam Sutton and Gardner Johnson for the secondary and even though Gibbs and J.Campbell went higher than many "draft experts" and fans on the outside looking in thought they would go, i like both and think both will easily be day one starters and very good players.
Bears fans on here want to argue about how bad the Lions have been forever but seem to forget that the Bears haven't had many good/great years in any of their lifetimes. Hopefully that will change in the very near future and we can finally have some sustained success.
Tearing down the team is the easier of the two parts of building a team for sure but it’s harder than you think.
Most teams’ GM’s don’t have the balls to do it bc they’re afraid for their jobs so they do what’s best for them instead of what’s best for the team in the long run and it’s an easy sell.
The bears had Pace do it for years- they add some high priced old free agents and then try and sell that as the missing piece when we knew all along that wasn’t the way to build a championship.
The bucs bought a championship in bringing in an old QB and that’s the only way to buy a championship but is that really skill?? Their Super Bowl with Brady should have an asterisk next to it when it comes to the fans.
Yes, the rebuild is tougher and no if stamina would argue differently but I’m just glad that we had someone come in and try and build a team the right way. It still remains to be seen if Poles has the skills to do it but honestly it all lands on the QB and it’s mostly a crapshoot in that regard and if it weren’t- every team would have one but they don’t- there aren’t that many to begin with-
That’s my point with the Lions- they are very talented and their GM has built a great team outside of QB- they got him with a great trade with all the picks they got for Stafford but at least Stafford was their draft choice and he went on to win a SB and this Lions team can’t win one with Goff at the helm.
That’s the sad part about team building- you can do all the right things but if you don’t get qb right- you’re fucked. Doesn’t matter if every other player is an all pro- if your qb is substandard- you won’t win.
