Campbell on quarterback Jared Goff. I'm mid some talk that.
Maybe the Lions would be a team that should consider upgrading
to Lamar Jackson. Here's what Campbell had to say at
the league. Meetings, golf love golf, coughs our guy man.
I think he's proven over the last
two years. That man
he's made for us he's had to endure a lot, just like all of
us have thought he played his best football last year and
I think he's going to come out and play some of his best this
year to feel good about it. So I love our quarterback position
right now right now is the K because Campbell also
I was asked about possibly drafting a quarterback this
year. Here's what he had to say.
This year as with most you're always looking to upgrade. And
the free agency has given us the ability in areas to man, we
can do whatever we need to do and the draft. We feel pretty
good about
that. We don't feel forced to do anything.
You got to take this, you got. And so with that
I would say man
it doesn't matter what the position is. If we can upgrade
our team
top to bottom, we will do that.
All right, I got some observations from that clip.
First of all, can we get a still frame of that? Don't Dan
Campbell is guy who showed up at fancy restaurant that
requires the men to wear a jacket. Right? He's like, do
I got a jacket?
Have a jacket, right?
And, and they happen to have, they happen to have a 58 long
in the back that they put on him. That's observation. Number
one, observation number two that Shireen Williams. Their
yes, old school
taking know. Notes. And one of the reasons she's right there
next to Dan Campbell is she went to Texas A & M and he went
to Texas A & M. That's right.
Oh, those damn Aggies. Gosh, giggle, Maggie's, that's what
they are. They're two peas in a pod. I'm sure also. What's
funny, is he sitting down? And he's almost as big as Shireen
sitting down which
tells you how big the damn guy is. I mean, he's a big sucker
and you're right, I do the same thing. It's like,
I feel like it's a coat that he had in his playing days to and
he's like, well, it still fits Kind of, I'll just throw it on
here and, you know, make it work. But
he said a lot of good things there,
right? Mike. I mean, he did,
you know, there's a part of me, of course, that I believe they
want to stay with Jared Goff Brad homes. He made that
aggressive move coming over from the Rams acquiring them.
So, I think they want to make it work.
I do think Detroit is one of those teams Mike that we talk
about. That's like, you know, it's not all about
the quarterback. They want to be like, hey, let's build a team
here a little bit, right? So that's where I think the Lamar
Jackson.
Thing is no way, just because
the trading, the money,
they can't fill in all the holes, they want. If they want
to do that with Lamar Jackson and then I think the other
thing, you know, Jared Goff. Hey, there
Gerry Gusman, tough gritty, they had the number four
offense and football. So they're going. Why do we want
to change much this year? We kind of got something going
here,
you know. But am I sitting here saying? I'm sold on Jared Goff
for the future to hold down the spot as the starting
quarterback for the Lions for the next five or six years. No,
Nine there, still things about his game. That I just think,
I'm not sure. It's going to get them over the hump and big
moments. I'm sorry,
that's just my opinion there. I hope he proves me wrong. But
yeah, I do wonder what they'll do. If there's a quarterback
they Fancy on the board there in the top ten that just
happens to be sitting there
or would there other pick later in the first round? You know,
that's one team. I'll be very interested to see what they do.
Peter King is advocated for years. Now, the existence of
a middle class of starting. Quarterbacks guys who aren't
making rookie wage scale, slotted deals and look for
three years. You have to if your quarterback who was
drafted
and then guys not at the very top of the market 45 million or
more Jared Goff right. Now, on the back end of a contract that
averaged 33 and a half million. Yeah, but was front-loaded
right? He's
got two years left payment this year of 25.9 millions. Awesome
payment next First year of twenty six point, six million
and and you know he almost was good enough last year that
I thought. Is he going to want to go ahead and do an
extension? Maybe if he has another big year,
he's going to say to the Lions. We'd like my
right, you know, sit down and talk about this. Maybe the line
say I were content to let it play out. We'll see what
happens after this year and and it all comes down to whether
they draft someone this year or next year
but hey, he's good enough to pay 20 66 to. That's what he's
good enough to pay that mid-level money to We right.
But but he's not the guy that's going to be a top five or top
10 quarterback and that may not be the guy they want ever
given what they're trying to do in Detroit. No, you're right.
They might not, you know,
I think that's they could be a team that's. They're going to
run the ball going to be balanced on offense. They're
never just going to make it about the quarterback. That
way, they're trying to get their defense situated,
the right way here.
You know the it's the cool thing about the Lions,
you know, Dan Campbell said, at the right way, they did some
good things in free agency. We know they had some strengths of
their team already. Now they got two picks in the top 20.
You know, they got a chance here to really change their
team around and be a player. Now, whether the quarterback
involved in that, yeah, I don't know, you know, if they're
sitting there at 18 and one of them will Levasseur Hendon.
Hookers sitting there?
Well, they do it. You know, that that'll be interesting to
me. I think it's going to be according to where they got
those guys ranked in their draft order and all that. But
I will be interested to see if they make that kind of Of move.
They should be with content with golf
you know to agree to a degree right now. He's done some good
things like we said but yes you know I think you said it,
right? He's a middle class, 25 million a year. Bam, that's
great. You know
you know
difference making and contract that's like puts him in
the upper Stratosphere know, then then people are going to be
like, what the hell you doing there
in Detroit?
So
I'm going to be very fascinated to see what they do in this
first round the Lions.
Something that occurred to me while you're explaining your
point. Yeah. There are, I would say right now in the NFL
and and I'll give you a chance to add to this list, I would
submit to you
There are six true franchise quarterbacks
of the 32 teams.
There are six Patrick Mahomes. Duh, Josh Allen
jobber. Oh, Justin Herbert, Jalen hurts
and Trevor Lawrence
not necessarily in that order.
But those are the six.
And then there's everybody else. Is there. Anyone you'd
want to add to that, to make it seven or even eight? Well, no,
I think you said them. All right. Well, I mean, Lamar to
me is a franchise quarterback. Did you didn't say Lamar, did
you know a franchise quarterback without
a franchise? Yeah, I know I'm talking about a guy, Guy. Yeah,
a guy who by his mere presence puts you in contention every
year. Roger, Trevor. Lawrence put Rogers made in that group.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Hey, let's put Rogers in that group. But let's
go and put in Rogers. And Lamar, that's eight. That's 25%
of the lake, right? Good round number. We're not around
number, but hehe
25% 1/4 of the league, 3/4 of the league?
No franchise quarterback.
My point is this,
if you don't have a franchise quarterback,
you can either
desperately, try to go find one and continue to swing, and miss
and set your team back year after year, after year, or you
can say we
Don't have one. We won't have one.
Let's build a team
can win right without one. Right. Let's then maybe we can
sell to our fans at this guy. Is the franchise quarterback
through building the team and doing it the right way. We win,
right? Right. Yeah,
I hear you but just don't just don't hit. Just don't hit
the franchise quarterback to harder. You give up 15 yards of
feel passion. That's that's where the logic falls apart.
We're going to build this team of the tough strong defense.
It's going to get after the quarterback.
Can just grab him. Yeah, exactly. That's my complaint
just radically exactly. Right. I know, I know so, alright, but
yeah, I think you're right about that,
you know, Russell Wilson probably would have been in
that conversation before last year, we probably would have
thrown him in there. Now, we got a different view of him.
Who else will be missing their the after you Stafford was
Matthew Stafford. Matthew Stafford is a God who has
toggle back and forth between franchise and not franchise
franchise and not franchise and right now.
Sorry, Matthew not franchise.
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