I have said it before and I will say it again. Detroit Lions GM Bob Quinn made a big mistake by not signing Graham Glasgow to a contract extension either prior to or during the 2019 season.
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Glasgow has done everything the Lions have asked him to do and he has probably been the most versatile lineman on the team over the past couple of seasons.
But now it seems like a certainty that Glasgow will officially become a free agent in less than a week and the Lions will be left looking for a player to fill his shoes. (Once again, Quinn could have given Glasgow and extension but that would be what a smart GM would have done)
Anyways, Glasgow spoke to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press on Monday night about his current situation.
“I’m bummed that I’m not able to stay cause I love Michigan and I love the Detroit area, Ann Arbor,” Glasgow told the Free Press in a phone interview Monday night. “I’ve been here for almost about a decade now and it’s awesome and I really, really like the guys in the locker room and I think we have a good team and a good group of guys. So in that regards, it sucks. But you don’t play football forever, so I think that being able to go somewhere else and make some money is an exciting thing.”
“I’m just here waiting for Monday to come along and that’s when the legal tampering (period) or whatever it is (begins),” Glasgow said. “So just kind of waiting to see what goes on there and we’ll go from there. Haven’t really heard too much from the Lions, so we’re just approaching it like that.”
“That’s something that worked out well for me,” Glasgow said. “I can play both (guard and center), I can play both well, so that’s just something that works out to where, it’s not like I want to play one more than the other. I think that it just comes down to seeing who wants me to play where for what, at what position, and I think that that’s just everything is going to come into account that way.”
“It just kind of comes down to, it’s a business,” Glasgow said. “Like, it’s a business for them and I understand that you can’t pay everybody, so that’s fine.”
“They’re pretty tight-lipped about a lot of stuff in there so I imagine that you’re not going to get an explanation to that and I probably really won’t either, so that’s something that I’ve already accepted,” he said.
“Me and my agent joke around, I’ve been doing all the work for four years, it’s about time he has to do something,” Glasgow said. “But we’re just, he’s going to go and talk with some teams and then from there we’ll see what happens later in the week.”
–Quotes via Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press– LINK
