It's only the preseason...
It's only the preseason... That's what I have to keep telling myself after watching the absolute dumpster fire of a game that took place on Thursday night between the Lions and the Chargers. Of course, they had to play in to the Michigan connection and we heard more about coach Harbaugh than anything cohesive or interesting.
I actually missed it, but there was a point where the commentators were actually discussing the pants that the Chargers coach was wearing. Sure, he is called Coach Khaki for a reason, but come on man, that's how you want to play this on the first game of the season?
My wife and I were sitting around the campfire in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan looking for any semblance of signal so we could stream the game on my laptop. It was a great big nope, and we ended up watching the game on @mrsbozz's phone. Apparently the stream was more compact and able to work better. I don't know.
Again, this was a preseason game, so only about 10% of the Lions starters were even dressed to play. The bad thing is, we need these backup players to wow us. If it goes the same way it did last year, we are going to be relying on them pretty heavily come the end of the season. The fact that we dropped at 34 to 7 loss to the Chargers is just miserable.
It doesn't help that I never really cared for their coach anyway, I mean he was the head coach at Michigan who I already can't stand, so that doesn't make him any more likeable for me. As I said though, half the state was probably loving it.
Like I said, I know it is the preseason and this doesn't really count at all, but a 34 to 7 loss is still not the way you want to kick things off. I have a feeling this is going to be a make or break season for the Lions. With much of the coaching staff taking off to be head coaches somewhere else, we get to see if Campbell can capture lighting in a bottle again and do what he does.
I want to believe that he can build something great again, but I just don't know if that is going to be possible. While a lot of the key pieces are still there, he lost some really good talent in the coaching ranks and that might be too big of an obstacle to overcome.
If it was just a matter of shoring up the ranks in case they have a lot of injuries again this year, that would be one thing. However, for all intents and purposes, they are kind of starting from square 1. This might be a building year for the Lions.
What do you think?
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