Well here we are team. Can you believe it’s Thanksgiving? I know around this time of year a lot of people say that. It’s a note to how quickly another year is moving by us, but in 2020, that observation carries a little more weight, because unless you’re a stock holder in Amazon or Zoom, you probably have had some tough moments this year. Whether it was due to the global pandemic, growing racial tension, rioting, or just a rush of anxiety surrounding the most impactful and stressful election in this nation’s history, there was probably something that aged you a few days/weeks/years.

Amidst the sports chaos of 2020 starting all the way back in March with the cancellation of the NCAA Tournament, we had a light at the end of the tunnel. The NFL was coming back. We would get to see the gridiron game played on Sunday’s which was a semblance of normalcy in a year lacking such. Sure there would be no fans, no tailgates, and a lot of other stuff we could list that would just depress us further but that is not what today is about. Today is about giving thanks. And I am thankful to have gotten through this year. I am thankful that there is football on Sundays. I am thankful I get to watch the NFL every week. I am thankful for my bookies free plays when I pay him on time, and I’m thankful for the Steelers who are 8-2 against the spread. And while the year has been insane and stressful I am thankful that my family and I have maintained our health throughout this year, and my thoughts, prayers, and good graces go out to those who have not been so fortunate to have experienced good health this year. I know thoughts, prayers, and good graces don’t really do anything for anyone to fix problems, but I understand waking up healthy everyday is not something I should ever take for granted.

Now that that’s done, let’s get petty. This Detroit Lions team is ass. I am not grateful for them. Not even a little bit. We could run down the gamut of how they haven’t won the division in my lifetime, or even hosted a playoff game. We could lambaste them for not winning a playoff game since 92 and never making it to a Super Bowl. But today, let’s just focus on this team right here, right now, right in front of us. The one that just played a severely banged-up, sub-par Carolina team with an XFL quarterback last week and didn’t score a single point. The one that the entire nation will be watching today going “how in the fuck do the Lions get this game every year?” Let’s talk about a Lions organization that fired a guy who went 9-7 in his final two years as head coach, and got canned for a guy who is currently 13-28-1 in just over 2.5 years with the organization. The defensive specialist with the 30th ranked defense, with two losses where they gave up 40+ points.

Let’s talk about a GM who spent buckets upon buckets of cash for mid-range guys that had history with the Patriots who haven’t done dick to improve this roster. Let’s talk about a leadership group who decided that taking a tight end (again) in the top ten would be a worthwhile pick, or even more recently, a corner back at number three who is struggling like hell to find reps and keep pace with NFL caliber receivers.

Overall, let’s talk about the attitude and identity of this team- it’s non-existent. It’s an excuse driven, false-confidence, credibility-barren farce. Nothing is ever the fat man’s fault. That lack of accountability trickles down throughout the entire organization and it shows its ugly face on Sunday’s each and every week.

And last but not least, let’s talk about puppet masters of this Twilight Zone show that will seemingly never fucking end- The Ford’s. Talk about a laissez faire approach to running an organization. Hire some Patriot people, make sure they are “character” guys, and walk away from the whole thing and check back in when and if there is a protest march outside the Ford Field walls. Martha and Sheila have promised change and they’ve promised results…but the worst thing of all that they’ve promised, is that they care. Which, in all reality, if they did, Matt Patricia and Bob Quinn would not be leading this traveling carnival act of a franchise through another embarrassment of a year. Matt Patricia is the furthest thing from a Detroit head coach. Detroiters are gritty. They are humble. They put their head down and they go to work and when things don’t go their way they take full responsibility and work even harder to fix those problems. This regime has none of that.

And today when the Lions get embarrassed on a national scale, and Detroit’s football team is once again a laughing stock, just know the Ford’s will call this day a huge win because of the Ford Black Friday advertising this day will bring.

There is no Thanksgiving Lions juice today because not only will the city and the stadium be empty, but no one wants to play for this organization how it currently stands, and that couldn’t have been more apparent last week. Final: Houston 31, Detroit: 19

#forward 🍾

– Frank