Lions general manager Bob Quinn feels like a broken record. When it comes to the pesky — and baseless — rumors of the Lions trying to trade franchise quarterback Matthew Stafford, Quinn has to keep reiterating the same answer.
It’s 100 percent fabricated and false.
Quinn met with reporters at the 2020 NFL Scouting Combine and once again debunked the notion that Detroit is even entertaining the concept of trading away Stafford. His words struck a familiar chorus.
“In terms of the whole rumor on Stafford, I think I’ve texted a lot of people here that it’s like 100% false,” Quinn said Tuesday in Indianapolis. “If we need to add a third exclamation point, we will. So I don’t know where that came from.”
The conviction to Quinn’s tone is akin to the classic TV public service announcement from the 1980s with the cracked eggs in a frying pan and a sternly glaring man admonishing “this is your brain on drugs, any questions,” and it’s not a question. It would be such a monumental backtracking to trade Stafford now that it would completely destroy any credibility Quinn has with other players, agents or owner Martha Ford.
Believe Quinn’s words. Matthew Stafford is going nowhere except under center for the Detroit Lions in 2020.
