I used to like DanCampbell as a coach, based on just a small sampling. I appreciated his patient work to resurrect Goff's career and the pieces he put in place around him (none remain from Stafford's last team in Detroit) to build a winner.
I only watched a few plays of any Detroit game through the past couple of seasons. I have to have a compelling interest in any game to give it my full attention for three hours. The overriding social issues, banal and vacuous "commentary," eye candy visual production that detracts from the game itself, and the incessant barrage of commercials makes the viewing experience vrtually unendurable most of the time. And this is from a fan who wouldn't miss an hour of televised NFL football - ever - just a few years ago.
But I digress.
Campbell just lost me with the style of defense he coaches and endorses. Joseph is exactly what Stafford called him - dirty as f__k and he knows it. So does his coach.
I'm ever-so-glad that a quarterback of Stafford's stature and integrity (who else?) was mik'd up in this important game and called Joseph and his play for what it is.
Joseph's I don't mean to hurt no body (sic) flimsy self-justification afterward doesn't pass the smell test, especially when set agains his statements about football being a dangerous game (we know that) and don't come into my territory unvieled threat.
The innuendo and threats are supposedly covered by his sanctimonious opener about praying for Higbee, never intending to hurt no body (sic) and blatently deceitful closer, saying that's the way the league wants us to tackle closer.
No, that's not the way the league wants you to tackle. The league says don't go for the head; the league also says something about you don't hit a defenseless receiver like you did, and the league has a stack of other regulations in ln place at the disctetion of the officials that you could have - should have - been called on. You should have been ejected on the spot. The fact that the refs truned their collective backs on your blatently intentional, dirty, cheap shot doesn't justify it or excuse it.
None of what you say in your own defense passes the smell test. Instead it compels me to add to Stafford's calling out: You're f__king dirty and you f__king know it, and not only that - you f__king stink.
