Detroit Lions fans, your boy Matthew Stafford served you well.
You chose him as your starting QB in 2009 and he rolled with you for 12 seasons as an often under-appreciated quarterback, racking up hundreds of touchdowns, 50,000 passing yards, and over 150 seasons starts.
But the Lions are the Lions, and you can pretty much set your watch to them messing up a game they're winning. Are they up 20 points in the 3rd quarter? Doesn't matter. They are gonna work overtime to fumble that ball, get those fouls, and fail to get first downs to ensure a loss by the end of the game.
The 2021 season was no different.
Stafford is a pretty good quarterback – some would argue one of the best in the league – and stepping out to play for the Los Angeles Rams has let him prove it.
Here's what Stafford had to say:
I know he's paid millions of dollars to play football, but I have to feel bad for him. The Lions wasted his talent for over a decade of his prime NFL career years. At age 33, who knows how much time he has left to play?
But hey, it's the Lions.
Following the 34-11 win against the Arizona Cardinals, Stafford now has a shot at the Super Bowl if the Rams beat Tom Brady and the Bucs next week, and then continue that momentum by beating the winner of the San Francisco-Green Bay contest in the NFC Championship game on January 30.
