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The team is constructed by a consensus of sports writers and broadcasters. That’s literally the definition of a popularity contest.

And the inverse is true too. Anyone remember those Rams teams of the early 1990’s? That team that had Flipper Anderson and Henry Ellard? Yeah, they didn’t win shit, largely because they had a shit QB that was put in a good situation. All that tells you is that it’s a team game and not everything boils down to one person. It’s the same with Stafford. He spent 12 years with a franchise that would have been improved if it was being run by Chris Rock’s rendition of Caretaker, he gets paroled and a year later is holding a Lombardi. But sure, lets talk about Detroit because…things.

I love how Stafford’s got all these weirdo detractors on this site that have avoided answering the second question like a vampire avoids garlic.

Well sure, we can lick nuts. Hell, I’d be concerned if we couldn’t.

That’s just typical Richard Sherman insanity. Every single one of those things are popularity contests. No mention of his stats, no mention of Super Bowls, and he caps it off by unfavorably comparing him to a dude that Stafford has on both counts.

I mean he’d make a good case if it were based on a hypothetical reality; the hypothetical being that it was perpetually 1976

I mean I’m not gonna grant that premise, but let’s say that I did: Did you get a sinking feeling in your gut if your team went ahead with 2 minutes left and knowing you had to stop: Sonny Jurgensen Len Dawson Bob Griese Joe Namath Ken Stabler from scoring to win?

Hey can’t say that I blame him. When you say that someone is “very likely bound for Canton,” that’s serious business.

Has nothing to do with “the moment.” I’ve been saying that his ticket to Canton is a ring away from being punched for a few years now. He punched it. It’s really that simple.

sorry, is anyone asking y’all to throw benefits for us?

Because: 1. Stuff 2. Things 3. Seriously, 2 of those 3 things were well beyond any of his control, 1 being a completely contrived “controversy,” and the other that sort of involved him was also a contrived controversy. Tuck rule? Shit that was a rule of the game that even I knew the very second the play happened.

Right and no one held…well…Detroit against Barry Sanders either. FIFY

I appreciate you trying to make it about that, but the problem is I’m not the only one making that case. Not really sure why you felt compelled to post this. Again, he’s 12th all time in both yardage and TD’s and I would encourage you to look at both those lists, both above and immediately below him. As you do that, also filter out the guys who never won a SB. Here’s what you’re left with that fit that description from 1st to 15th Brady Brees P. Manning Favre Rodgers Roethlisberger E. Manning Elway R. Wilson The ones who are available for induction are already in and it’s a fool’s errand to argue the rest won’t. Which speaks volumes about the suckitude of the Lions organization. You can’t just wave your hand and pretend that’s not a factor. No one is saying that it is. What honest people are saying is that it’s possible for a player to have an HOF-worthy career for a shit team. All last night did was end the argument. Look, I appreciate the fact that there are people, for their own petty reasons, who do not want him in the HOF but I say the same thing to them as I did to Soul Glo regarding Warren Moon’s induction in 2006 right before it was announced: y’all are gonna have to give that shit up.

And the whole 50,000 yards and 300 TD’s thing. But that never resonates with some

Honestly I see that in the same context as some grade school kid that pulls his pants down at recess just so the rest of the students will look at him. I mean it’s either that or a stupid person expressing what they think is a smart thing to say.

I mean I suppose they gotta plan how they’re gonna tell him and what day….

Not saying he isn’t good, just that the idea of him deserving a PB nomination ahead of Stafford is a bad joke.

And that’s the only lesson that was learned by people with minds worth a shit who observed it. Detroit is a dumpster fire of an organization. Back in the day, it was trendy for some people to make the argument “well if Barry played for Dallas and Emmitt for Detroit…” I’ve had the same arguments with people about Stafford and my position is as follows: If Ben Roethlisberger played for the Lions and Stafford for Pittsburgh: Ben would have been one of those joke comedy guys that was always seen getting drunk and hitting on girls in public, and Matthew would have won multiple rings early in his career. Ben was fortunate to be supported by a well run organization with impeccable coaching from beginning to end and there’s no fucking way he wins two Super Bowls as Detroit’s QB. As to your comment about Cousins, yes. Only a worthless goober would say “yes, Cousins deserves a pro bowl nomination over Matthew Stafford.”

Just the ones who don’t deal in Make Believe

On Saturday November 16th 2002, we went out for an early afternoon playoff game in Mesquite at Hanby Stadium against Sulphur Springs. Our quarterback, DFW Offensive Player of the year Bill Foran, sat out the game due to a high ankle sprain he suffered 2 weeks earlier in the district championship against Wylie. Our starting QB that afternoon was our strong safety, Rob Rain. Behind Rob was this pudgy, doughy white 14 year old freshman. He had just moved up to the varsity roster, the first freshman to do so since Lance McIlhenny around a quarter century before. This kid would run past me every day on the way to practice because in 9th grade, you’re told to run your ass to practice from 7th period since we don’t have time to fuck around. Because the first thing varsity players would do after 7th period was watch film, get taped up, have position meetings, etc, none of us had the need to haul ass to practice like freshmen did. When he’d pass me (or anyone else), he’d always say “excuse me, sir.” Sir? I’m 18 years old and this 14 year old is calling me “sir?” Damn. When we got near the end of practice we always had to go to the sideline to do wind sprints for conditioning and we did them by position groups so it had the feel of a legit race. They put The Freshman with us kickers since, as Coach Randy Allen put it to him, that’s what his speed and conditioning indicated. Of course the two of us (starter Ryan Wolcott and myself) would whip his ass. He actually went over to the side to puke after Monday’s conditioning. Anyways, cut to the 4th quarter of this first round game against Sulphur Springs. We had just scored a touchdown to go up 44-7 (or something to that effect). I was called on to execute the sky/pooch kickoff since it was against the wind. The upback let the ball go through his arms, bounced between his legs and one of our guys recovered the muff. On the very next play, The Freshman was put in. He didn’t throw a single pass across the line of scrimmage but still managed to conduct a touchdown drive to make it 51-7. We ended up winning 51-15. Tonight, almost 20 years later, that very same Freshman led his team on a game winning TD drive in the Super Bowl and is very likely bound for Canton.

Yeah there’s nothing contradictory about libertarians and fire departments. Now, if it’s that phony, American, right wing conception of libertarianism, fine. But an old fashioned Euro-style libertarian? Fire departments (and all of those other wonderful public utilities/services) are not only embraced by them but they’re also required.

Woooooahhhhh that’s interesting

I’m gonna post that video every time you perform that fake tough guy routine. You are wishing upon a star that one of us will be naive and/or stupid enough to fall for that.