Pride Of Detroit Podcast: Matthew Stafford Interview

I’m glad he’s coming back! Really feel bad for Hill though. He played well for the Lions. I hope Matty can finish strong and avoid those injuries.

I was a little worried about the offseason question, since we have a little photographic evidence of what he likes to do.

Pretty interesting to hear that he doesn’t listen to any music pregame. Wonder what he does to get himself psyched up.

Stafford to come on. That was amazing. thank you.

I was hugely impressed with your interviewing skills. You sounded upbeat and asked some good questions, you didn’t sound nervous at all. Really well done.

Thanks for Matt for stopping by, we should try to get more Lions on.

I found it really amusing that Staff said Stanton is a “tough kid” LoL.

Also he said if / hopefully I am ready to go in Washington I believe…

Please let this be a definite.

The part that I appreciated was how patient Matthew and the guy from AXE were with my technical difficulties. They were very cool and classy!

I am really glad to see that a guy like Matt Stafford is so easy to touch base with. It shows that he is down to earth and that he is approachable. That is great character in my opinion, and it gives me even more respect for our young leader. In my opinion, it would have been INSANE for the coaching staff to play Shaun Hill over Matt Stafford, regardless of how well or poorly Hill played in a backup role. Many people might point to the Mike Vick and Kevin Kolb scenario to support an argument that sometimes you have to roll with the guy that is hot, but I think that situation is driven by Andy Reid’s desire to prove that he was right all along about Kevin Kolb being a franchise caliber QB. Nobody here ever believed that Shaun Hill was the long term solution at QB for the Lions, and I would bet that nobody in the FO or on the coaching staff believed it either. Michael Vick is a young man who is a great athlete, and who is capable of being a long term solution at QB for any team…and Kolb is also a young man, with a different skill set, that many view as a long term solution at QB for the Eagles…THAT is a true QB controversy in Philadelphia, and wholly different than what we have here in Detroit.

Here, we have a very young and upcoming star in Matthew Stafford…who is still learning and becoming better and better with experience,,,and we have, as you stated, a journeyman QB who has had his ups and downs around the league for some time now. To roll with Shaun Hill, just because he came in as Matthew Stafford’s backup and eventually performed well enough to give us chances to win, would potentially be detrimental to the development and confidence of Matthew Stafford as our young leader and franchise QB. While I was against him starting right away when we drafted him, and while I stated that he may be better off learning behind a veteran for a season, I feel that I was at least partially wrong in not wanting him to start immediately. It may have been true that Stafford could have benefited from watching the game from the sideline, behind a veteran QB, I feel that he came in and proved right away that he was ready to take over and develop on the field. Now that he has been given that opportunity, I do not feel that going backwards (so to speak) would be the most intelligent, or even remotely proper, thing to do in reference to the immediate and future development of Matthew Stafford as a professional franchise QB. No sir…he is our captain, our leader, our QB, and the future of the Detroit Lions. If he is healthy and ready to go, I say that you MUST sit Shaun Hill or whoever else is playing, even if they are performing well, regardless of whether the situation is real or hypothetical.

More marketing and subtle advertising without having to produce a 30 second commercial which you switch off anyway.

Every time you look at this thread you have the AXE name right under the podcast player.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/danpatrick/listenlive.player.html?file=http://ht.cdn.turner.com/si/danpatrick/audio/2010/10/19/DP-Matthew_Stafford-10-19-10_Interview.mp3

You may have to copy and paste this one, cause the link is really long.
It is Stafford on the Dan Patrick show, although, Tony Bruno is guest hosting.
I hate Tony Bruno, and it kinda sounds like Stafford does too.

The Second one is better, this is Stafford on 97.1 with Karsch and Anderson. Although he still drops the Axes Spiel here, he really sounds upbeat in this interview.

http://wxyt.cbslocal.com/2010/10/20/karsch-and-anderson-with-matthew-stafford/

way to cockblock, Jerry

There was never really a QB contreversy. Matt would have to play pretty bad I think for that to happen.