Detroit Lions Weblog

Quiet Off-Season Continues

This may be the quietest, most event-free off-season in recent Lions team history.   Besides Shaun Rogers recent off-the-field indiscretions, the steadily growing anticipatory plaudits for rookie WR Calvin Johnson, and the media junket being undertaken by “Mr. Insignificant”, Lions 7th round draft pick CB Ramzee Robinson, Allen Park has been nearly invisible in local sports pages.  

Of course, with the Tigers off to another excellent start, it is not too difficult for the Lions to fall off of the radar a bit.   They certainly have for me.  The Tigers near two year run of excellence has been thoroughly enjoyable for me, just like it has been for everybody else who loves Detroit sports.   The Tigers performance even provides me with a little hope that the Lions could alter their course and eventually experience a similar change of fortunes in the near future.

The one thing that has remained troubling for me is that the Lions negotiations with DT Cory Redding have gone unnoticed/undocumented in the media.   I often wonder just what stage of negotiations the two sides are currently in, and whether the Lions have reached an impasse or are moving closer to contract completion with the promising Redding.  

I also am a little concerned by Jon Kitna’s continued pronouncements that he feels that the Lions will be a 10 win team in ‘07-’08.   As much as I applaud him for having the guts to stick his neck out a little bit, and potentially motivate a few teammates, I just wish that all parties involved would remain silent so that if the Lions are in fact a 10-win caliber of team they will completely sneak up on their NFL cohorts, the media and especially us, the loyal Lions fans, who are certainly deserving of a similar type of improbable phoenix-like resurrection of the Lions moribund franchise that avid Tiger fans have been able to enjoy of late.