When the Super Bowl ends, and we're hit with this realization there's no NFL football for the next seven months, the mind tends to wander. Speculation season quickly springs into full bloom as we ponder what's next for the franchises we follow, whether that be through coaching changes, the draft, free agency, or trades.
In this case, we're here to put some emphasis on that last one.
In a little over two weeks, we witnessed the full life cycle of the frenzied rumor the Lions were shopping quarterback Matthew Stafford, fueled by a combination of wife Kelly reacting negatively to a speculative piece posted on a gambling website, of all places, nearly simultaneous with a repeatedly refuted televised report the Lions have had conversations with multiple teams about dealing the quarterback.