The Lions have some big decisions to make both on and off the field, aka both in and outside the locker room. With both GM Bob Quinn and head coach Matt Patricia in a make or break season, results are needed and they’re needed fast!
The results on the field depends heavily on the Detroit Lions coach and his staff’s ability to put players in position to succeed. Inorder to have, keep, or get the players needed to succeed; that’s on Quinn and his staff to make sure the necessary pieces are on the team and ready!
Well the Lions have free agents of their own that are ready for new contracts, plus players entering into their last year of current contracts; and there’s only so much money to go around!
Add to all of that the fact that there maybe other available Free Agents that fits the team’s need more than the one who just became a free agent, so what do you if you’re Bob Quinn?
Here’s the dilemma
If you don’t re-sign Darius Slay you are basically creating, establishing, or reinforcing in the minds of on-lookers (players on the team, potential draft picks, and Lions fans) that the team really doesn’t want to be loyal!
That way of doing business may very well hinder the next move which would seem to be to sign Kenny Golladay to a long term deal before his contract ends.
If you won’t do right by Slay, by trying to low ball him, a guy who’s played his arse off for you, why would Golladay expect you to come to him with fair deal! He just might make the team pony up more money to retain his services!
And this goes on down the line of hierarchy of players!
The seeds may have already been sown, as Golladay said something in an interview that could be an indicator that he’s not sure if he’ll want to be a Lion forever!
Look for all of this to go away, the team probably should get ready to pay their own guys, and make that apart of “the culture”!
This will pay longterm dividends, otherwise it’ll become a poison pill and unfortunately Quinn and Patricia will be fired and gone, but we the Lions fans will have to deal with the symptoms of this for the next decade! likely!
What are your thoughts…
Will the Lions get this off-season right or is it doom and gloom on the horizion?
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