Detroit Lions fans, if you were told that last year’s 10-six record and playoff berth “wasn’t good enough,” you would be …

Irate? Possibly livid? Or do you honestly now anticipate the globe following the franchise’s initial winning season in 11 years?

Evidently, Lions team president Tom Lewand falls into the latter category.

“Last year wasn’t good adequate for us,” Lewand told Detroit Television station WXYZ on Tuesday. “Our objective is not to be a wild card participant. Our targets are a lot greater than that. Folks say to us all the time, ‘What a excellent year, what a wonderful year.’ Properly, you know what, it wasn’t a wonderful year. It was okay.

“It was a step in the right direction, but we’ve got a lot of operate ahead of us, and our goals are out there to be achieved, and that aim ultimately is Super Bowl championships — not just one particular, but many.”

Lewand’s ambition is to be commended, and certainly the Lions have some pieces in place for continued good results, most importantly a healthful franchise quarterback in Matthew Stafford and an unbelievable wide receiver in Calvin Johnson.

But, c’mon … child actions. “Wasn’t great adequate” is a bit of a harsh assessment right after what the franchise and its fans have endured for so extended.

Don’t you believe?

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Boomer Esiason sounds off on the Jets

Posted by Mike Florio on January 4, 2012, 11:15 PM EST

During the 2011 regular season, a former Jets quarterback repeatedly criticized the present edition of the team. Now, another former Jets quarterback has joined Joe Namath with a harsh assessment of the franchise.

“I think that Rex Ryan’s techniques have come back to haunt him,” Esiason told WEEI in Boston, through ESPNNewYork.com. “And Mike Tannenbaum . . . has a lot of responsibility in this regard, simply because they have put a lot of bad guys together in this locker space. There’s a good core of players for the New York Jets. But however, all it takes is 1 guy. And Rex Ryan giving Santonio Holmes the captain’s ‘C’ on the chest was an absolute embarrassment. It’s a slap in the face of all the great guys in that locker area.”

Esiason also took aim at quarterback Mark Sanchez, a player whom Namath recently has supported.

“If you watched Mark Sanchez the last month of the season, he was like a chihuahua standing on Madison Avenue and 36th Street entering the Midtown Tunnel, eyes larger than you-know-what, and just so shaky,” Esiason stated.

In the occasion the P.C. police had an concern with Esiason’s reference to a breed of dog that bears a Mexican name, given that Sanchez is Mexican-American, Wealthy Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com has cleared things up by contacting Esiason for a clarification.

Seriously.

“I chose a modest dog that always looks shaken and has large eyes, and doesn’t like huge points – a chihuahua,” Esiason said. “It’s a skittish dog and he’s been a skittish player.”

Esiason also agrees that, despite what the Jets say publicly, they’re privately considering their choices for upgrading the position. And they’ll be interested in Peyton Manning, if he’s offered.

“If Peyton is in a position to play and the new General Manager [in Indianapolis] and whoever they hire to run that team out there decides to go with no Peyton Manning, then I’m positive that the Jets will be sniffing about,” Esiason said. “Because that’s what the Jets do. They’re attempting to discover their Tom Brady. They’re attempting to uncover their Aaron Rodgers. And I don’t believe, in their thoughts, they believe that they really feel like they’ve located the kid.”

Esiason is correct. And the sooner the Jets acknowledge publicly what they’re realizing privately, the closer they’ll be toward turn into the team they so badly want to be.

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1. benh999 says: Jan four, 2012 11:21 PM

   Nice. Let’s call Sanchez “El Chihuahua” from now on. Thanks, Boomer.
2. jutts says: Jan 4, 2012 11:24 PM

   Peyton to the Jets: He could just area with Eli. easy
3. drgfri says: Jan 4, 2012 11:29 PM

   Sanchez is like a chihuahua under a 16 year old girls arm…..
4. rayjayjohnsonjr says: Jan 4, 2012 11:30 PM

   And how several Super Bowls was it that Esiason won, or even play in?
5. duffer58 says: Jan 4, 2012 11:31 PM

   Please clarify why anybody gives a darn what Esiason thinks?
6. coolgato13 says: Jan 4, 2012 11:31 PM

   I beg to differ with Boomer.
   
   My chihuahua is an Alpha female, afraid of absolutely nothing.
   
   And she has WAY cuter eyes than Sanchez!

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