Just days before the NFL Draft, it was reported that the Detroit Lions had a secondary contract deal arranged with LB Aaron Curry in case they could not sign Matthew Stafford. This strategy had the football world believing they had Stafford and his agent Tom Condon backed into a corner.

Condon responded by reaching across the negotiating table bitch-slapping the hell outta’ Lions GM Martin Mayhew and William Clay Ford to the tune of $78 million with a record $41.7 guaranteed; all for a player that comes out of college wearing a giant question mark on his forehead.

The rest will be history but expect a bad marriage between the two with Stafford taking a similar path as Joey Harrington and Andre Ware, two other former first-round Lions QB picks.

For the Lions passing on Aaron Curry and Jason Smith and letting Condon squeeze their team of $78 million, Mayhew joins former GM Matt Millen as a recipient of Sports Climax’ Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week. maybe there’s something about having the initials M.M.  

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