The Detroit Lions Square Peg Brigade: First in a Series

March 27, 2011   ·   Michael Sudds   ·   Jump to comments


As I discussed in a previous article, The Detroit Lions will not be making the kind of wholesale changes to the roster that characterized the rebuilding effort of 2009, and 2010. Entire units were purged in the certain knowledge that desperate times called for desperate measures.
This is a good thing, right?
The players that remain are fully aware that showing up for a paycheck will no longer be tolerated, regardless of your glorious past. The Lions have entered the “what have you done for me lately” phase of team development and team cohesion.
In this series I will take a look at some of the surprising player acquisitions made by GM Martin Mayhew, and company. Who are they? What were their contributions in 2010? And, most importantly, what does the future hold for them?
In this installment and installments to follow, we will analyze those players who I’ve termed “The square peg brigade”.
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