Mobile, Ala — It might seem a little early to start peddling hope for the 2020 NFL season, especially coming off a three-win campaign, but Senior Bowl director Jim Nagy sees some parallels between the Detroit Lions, who are coaching one of the two teams at the event this year, and the San Francisco 49ers, who coached here in 2019.
Yes, the same 49ers that punched their ticket to the Super Bowl on Sunday with an empathetic win over the Green Bay Packers.
"Looking at what happened yesterday with San Francisco, I'm not saying Detroit is going to have the home-field advantage in the playoffs next year and be in the Super Bowl, but there are some parallels to the San Francisco losing Jimmy (Garoppolo) and ending up here and Detroit losing (Matthew) Stafford," Nagy said during a news conference on Monday night.