Adding Chris Chambers Could Help Detroit Lions This Season

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Published: November 3, 2009

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... was, the city of Detroit wouldn’t be littered with homeless people wearing ripped jackets and teal Pistons hats.

Yet there are times when someone’s curbside pickup is better than anything in your living room.  In terms of football, and the Detroit Lions, recently waived wide receiver Chris Chambers fits this metaphor.

Detroit’s current core of wide receivers is horrible.  On a scale of one to happy hour at Cheetah's strip club, it ranks as a two.

Sure, Calvin Johnson is great.  But even when healthy, he draws so much attention from defenses it is hard for him to be consistently productive.  He needs help, and the Lions have no other options in the passing game.

Dennis Northcutt can’t catch a ball.  Bryant Johnson has not had the breakout year Martin Mayhew predicted.  Derrick Williams appears to have no future as a pass catching threat, and John Standeford is not going to...

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