They’re building off last season’s late charge by drastically improving secondary, and still looking for more ‘FBI’
This off-season’s crescendo was reached Sunday night, when word leaked that the Lions had pinched defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson via free agency from the NFC-champion Philadelphia Eagles. The dual safety/slot-cornerback was the Eagles’ best defender in some games last season, on a unit that oozed star performers at every level.
“Lions fans were understandably going nuts on Sunday night amidst the Gardner-Johnson news,” PrideOfDetroit.com stated. Even Lions players were whoopin’ it up on Twitter.We’re talking about an NFL franchise as success-starved as any. The last time the Detroit Lions won their division, it was known as the NFC Central. That was exactly 30 years ago, in 1993.
Since 1993 the Packers — piloted either by Favre or Rodgers — have won the division 15 times, the Minnesota Vikings eight times, the Chicago Bears five times and Tampa Bay once, in 1999, three years before the Buccaneers relocated to the NFC South, and the downsized NFC Central was renamed the more geographically precise NFC North.
All of which brings us to now, at this point of the 2023 off-season — about a week into the free-agent signing period, and 5½ weeks before the draft. Put another way, since Halloween only the Chiefs, Niners and Bengals have lost fewer games than the Lions . Besides signing Gardner-Johnson, the Lions’ other top off-season player transactions thus far, in summary:Cornerback Cam Sutton ; cornerback Emmanuel Moseley ; running back David Montgomery ; and ex-Lion guard/centre Graham Glasgow .Safety C.J. Moore; linebacker Alex Anzalone; edge rusher John Cominsky; defensive tackle Isaiah Buggs; placekicker Michael Badgley; and depth cornerback Will Harris.
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