Sunday, September 26, 2010
Millen is long gone. 0-3 start not his issue anymore. My latest column in The Oakland Press: http://theoaklandpress.com/articles/2010/09/26/sports/columns/doc4c9fc8ff33e9a196577531.txt
posted by Pat Caputo at
10:55 PM
Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. He has garnered top national honors for his column writing and sports writing from the Local Media Association. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks."
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4 Comments:
Pat, I never understood either how they pass on Oher and pick Pettigrew. Lions just spend 75 million on a QB you think they would want the best protection available. Stratford also has a strong arm so he wouldn’t be naturally looking for a TE. Lions should take advantage of his strong arm. This pick is just as bad as the Tigers picking relief pitchers in the early round of their draft as relievers are the easiest to pick up in free agency and least expensive in comparsion to other positions.
Barry,
Believe it or not, on draft day the Lions took Pettigrew because of his blocking ability first. Why did they just take a tackle then?
I'm taking the cup-half-full attitude. And I'm the last person that should say that.
We have big injuries and a young squad that hasn't worked with each other.
Games this year are not blow-outs in the second quarter like last year.
However, linebackers are tentative and d. secondary is really playing badly.
Penalties and breakdowns are still occuring.
Agree with you on one thing, these guys are pros and if they don't step up and execute on every play and step it up on key plays, we're the same toast.
Unfortunately, if coaches can't fix these things, and guys don't produce, get them out of here and keep drafting and replacing thru free-agency.
I'm at a loss to think of anything else??
Pat,
Believe it or not the Lions look improved to me so far this year. On field attitude is so much better, tackling is better, and they have been in every game.
Suh has been everything and more.
Best when he is healthy has been very good.
OK they lost every game so far,
but here is the thing.
Lions fans during pre-season, all talking about 8-8, 10-6 etc for this season, ridiculous expectations! Now they are upset because some guys don't execute consistently. So they get on the, "its the same old lions" bandwagon.
Well no, it is not the same old lions. This is not, as we saw in the past at times, a good, or decent team that is not playing up to its potential. This is a bad team playing about as well as they can play. obviously there is always a step forward one week, one back the next, in football so yeah we might see a little better result some weeks, but this is about what fans should expect.
Yet when we see guys make a good pass then a couple poor passes, or guys catch one and drop one (or two) it is not for a lack of trying, or bad coaching, it is because a lot of these guys, this is their skill level. it is not just effort, or a coach, I think we have seen good effort, it is that there are different levels of talent, and players that are not so good are players that are not consistent and make poor passes, and don't cover, and drop balls. that is this lions team. Go ahead trade the lesser players to a good team, do people think they will start, or suddenly become good players? We are still a couple of good players away from being a decent team. As Pepper Martin said, " I got an old mule back on my farm, and you can whip it from morning till night, but it ain't ever going to win the Kentucky derby."
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