The Detroit Lions made a leap of sorts, going 106 and surprising many by making the playoffs for the first time in years. Mathew Stafford was the fourth QB in the history of the NFL to throw over 5,000 yards in a season, Calvin Johnson is in a class of his own at WR and their young defense is tenacious and keeps improving with every year. Their running game will be a question mark this year.As one who (almost singularly at times) has called Minnesota media to task, I cringed as I attended this fiasco to think of their stories: hopefully words would fail them to describe just how awful it was. on Twitter, an exceptionally thin skinned, ferociously untalented 'reporter' wondered if the panel liked her. I checked my impulse to throw up.

In fact the committee, which held its first meeting in February1995 at the NFL combine in Indianapolis, was made up almost entirely of NFL insiders. Nearly half the members were team doctors, the same men who had been sending concussed player