Misery, meet company? The Detroit Lions have hired Scott Linehan to be their new offensive coordinator. Is it possible for a team to be worse than 0-16? And is Linehan the first person in human history to pick Detroit over San Francisco at, well, anything?
But just when RamView began to wonder if Lions HC Jim Schwartz hasn't been getting credit for a couple of dozen more IQ points than he may actually have, it dawned that Linehan had two successful terms as OC in Minnesota and Miami. And sure, you can say he was mainly successful in Minnesota because the Vikings had Randy Moss.
Have you seen Calvin Johnson? Any reason not to run him 40 yards downfield 6-8 times a game and let Matthew Stafford just chuck it deep?
Linehan screwed the pooch here (Detroit laughably says part of his appeal is that he's a former HC), and Detroit seems like the perfect purgatory for him after his dreadful Rams tenure, but we'd be selling him too short to think he can't make something with a Stafford-to-Johnson connection. Culpepper-to-Moss Lite, if you will.
It worked for him before...
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