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This week, the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers departed with their long-time head coaches. Mike Tomlin produced a 193-144-2 file over 19 years with the Steelers. John Harbaugh went 180-113 over 18 years heading the Ravens.
However Tomlin was simply 8-12 within the postseason and gained a single Tremendous Bowl. Harbaugh was 13-11 within the playoffs, and in addition solely earned one Tremendous Bowl ring.
Dan Campbell is nowhere near the place these iconic coaches have been, however there may be already a rising fear that the Lions might discover themselves in an identical purgatory. They’re adequate to supply good information and win divisional titles, however not adequate to win a Tremendous Bowl.
There’s a imagine that as groups proceed to hang around in that “aggressive however not elite” house, it will get more durable and more durable to finally recover from the hump. You not often have a top-10 draft choose, the core of your gamers get costly, and it turns into exhausting to fireside anybody, as a result of the staff all the time appears so shut.
So what can the Lions do to keep away from purgatory? That’s certainly one of our matters of debate on this week’s Midweek Mailbag podcast. We talk about what Dan Campbell must do to keep away from complacency, but in addition have a broader dialog. Particularly, would you are taking the Steelers’ and Ravens’ success over the previous twenty years? Have the dynasties of the Chiefs and Patriots made it seem like successful a number of Tremendous Bowls is less complicated than it truly is? Is being competitve year-in, year-out (just like the Steelers and Ravens) nonetheless the easiest way to compete for a Tremendous Bowl?
Erik Schlitt and I debate that and reply a complete lot extra of your questions on this week’s episode. Listed here are another matters of debate:
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You may as well catch the present over on our YouTube web page. Half 1 is right here, Half 2 is right here. There’s some further dialog there, together with—Dan Orlovsky as the subsequent Lions OC????
