and yet we agree so passionately on this issue

the fire of our hatred for alex smith burns like a thousand suns

love me

Wow, how refreshing: A thread about Marthew Stafford's new contract extension devolves into an Alex Smith sucks discussion.

Neato.

ROFLMAO

Put Stafford on the Lions last year and you had 4-12 team.

JFC dude.

Maybe I should delete this thread?

:shake:

no

Oh yeah and McNabb has been "butthurt" since he was traded by the Eagles.

This.

He's suffering from "could have been" syndrome...

He had a damn near HOF career, no need to get all butthurt.

It's a shaky decision in that they're paying him for what they hope he brings, not rewarding him for what he's done.

It's the at free agency should be approached but its a scary way to do it.

If you approach free agency in terms of rewarding guys for what they've done, you end up with Albert Pujols

That's exactly right.

Who cares? He's still right about Stafford.

Someone please explain to me why Stafford deserved this extension when he had a year left on his contract with an option for 2014?

Probably cuz there's not much out there.

There's no QB's coming out in the near future like Luck, Griffin, etc.

Who they gonna draft, Geno Smith?

That's a terrible reason. He was already under contract for ths year and they could have picked up his option for 2014.

Stafford is 1-22 against teams that finish with winning records. He's led the Lions to 2-14, 6-10, 10-6 and 4-12 records. Last year, he threw 20TD's and 17 INT's in a division with teams, other than the Bears, with middling-to-poor defenses.

Acting as if this was somehow a "no-brainier" for Detroit is outright ridiculous.