The 2018 version of the Detroit Lions is not very good. Heck, if you happened to watch the very first game of the season, a Monday Night Football affair against the New York Jets, you knew it was going to be a long year.
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For the most part, Lions beat writers around these parts are very tame when it comes to what they write and do not write about the team they cover for a living. In fact, if you take Carlos “Clickbait” Monarrez out of the equation, which most of you have done by now, there is very little to see.
Now, that is not to say that guys like Kyle Meinke (MLive), Dave Birkett (Detroit Free Press), and Justin Rogers (The Detroit News) are not talented at what they do, but let’s be honest, rarely do you see them stick their neck out to bash the Lions.
Well, apparently, Justin Rogers has seen enough and when you read his latest column titled, “Lions are boring and bad, offer little reason to watch,” you can sense that he is fed up.
Here are a few excerpts from his piece, followed by a link so you can read it all.
From The Detroit News:
The temperatures are plummeting, it’s getting dark earlier and earlier, and the sky is gray during the day more often than not. Oh, and the Detroit Lions are playing meaningless football in December.
Welcome to your version of seasonal depression.
The Lions travel to Arizona to face the Cardinals this weekend and I’m struggling to provide you with a reason to care about the game. According to ESPN’s Football Power Index, this week’s matchup earns a score of 2.7 out of 100.
Rogers then went a step further, claiming that this version of the Detroit Lions is not just bad, but boring too.
Yet instead of steadily improving as the season carried on, which Patricia hammered home as the expected fruits of his intensive offseason conditioning program, the Lions have stumbled into the home stretch losers in five of the last six, including four defeats by double-digits.
And what’s more, not only is the team bad, it’s boring.
Go ahead, pull up the roster. Tell me who you can’t wait to see on Sundays.
As the column goes on, Rogers calls out both Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia for the job (or lack thereof) that they have done with the team.
Who knows, maybe The Detroit News had decided that what Monarrez is doing with the Detroit Free Press is working and ordered Rogers to write this, or maybe Rogers truly believes what he wrote.
To read the rest of Justin Rogers piece, please click here.
