Harbaugh to Detroit odds heating up.

I love all the people telling Lions fans, who are often Michigan fans, that they're wrong about Harbs because xyz and he'll do good in the NFL. Y'all watch Michigan football, other than highlights? (if you can call them that?) I do, being in northern Ohio, I bet both Buckeyes and Wolverines games. I can tell you that it's not just recruiting. You think that's the one reason they've been trash? Big schools pump millions into recruiters, data tracking analysts and all kinds of weird voodoo shit to find players they want to recruit. I've been watching him since he got the job. He was close in 2016. All other games he was blown out by OSU. But, that's just osu. They struggle to even beat the smaller Michigan schools nowadays.

I'm not saying he won't be a good coach if he comes back to the NFL by any means but let's not pretend like he's this phenomenal coach or something. This looks like another example of the NFL cycling coaches instead of giving someone new a shot. He had three winning seasons, two lead by Alex Smith, and two by Colin Kaepernick. When Smith was gone, the team regressed under Colin his second year after teams schemed around his ability to run around and make plays. Then, he started throwing worse, more and more picks etc, and was essentially a low-end passer but had the ability to run, which is what kept them going.

His last year, 2014, was 8-8, and arguably a sign of his coaching of the last few years coming to fruition. Players regressed, the good stopped carrying the bad, and they were overall meh. Obviously that's better than some teams, but, we're talking about the ability to coach. Good coaching is what gives bad teams and bad players the ability to not only stay competitive, but also upset teams in the process.

Look at the Giants. They were awful, and the thing that helped them turn around was Judge's coaching. Or the 49ers, look at how many games they stayed competitive in and even won despite fielding games with practice squad players half the year. That's a sign of good coaching. Take the browns, or the chargers for example, and how much talent both teams possess, Chargers are drowning because Anthony Lynn is garbage, and the Browns are winning because Stefanski coached players up to being good and schemed games into wins.

I like the Lions, and I think they deserve a good coach, which is why I think they should stay the hell away from Jim Harbaugh. He's the same guy as Matt Patricia. Win or lose, it's his scheme until the end and he's terrible at adapting players. If he gets hired and it works out - great, if not, then I'll be disappointed, because the Lions deserve better than that. Football is best when more teams are competitive, and Matty Ice deserves a fuckin ring.

I'm basing all of this off of memory and not really proof reading so if I'm wrong about anything and you want to correct me, by all means. I'm a closeted Lions fan because I get all their games and got to watch Stafford be Stafford for all these years and I don't have the heart to watch that man go through yet another shit coach. Matt Patricia was bad enough.

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