How about them Lions! Please fire Millen now. Do not trust another draft to this idiot, or for that matter, another coach hiring. I thought Marinelli was a defensive specialist. The only thing this team knows about "D" , is that it's the first letter in dough.
END THE MILLEN ERROR (ERA) NOW!!
Fire Millen! Should have been done four years ago. The only draft picks that have worked out from the Millen error, (Ooops, I mean era), is Ernie Sims. Roy Williams could have been good had he been on the right team. But too many Rookie's get drafted to the Lions and never get a taste of a winning, high class franchise, and it taints their play and attitude so much they seem to lose their love for football. Williams is a classic example of that. He does not give 100% anymore and its all about him. He has the talent. If he was traded to a team like Indy, or New England tomorrow, he would be the the next number one fantasy WR.
I liked Mooch when he was with Detroit. He had the players respect, and they would play for him. There just simply was not enough talent. Mooch became a scapegoat for Millen, and that happens to too many good head coaches in the league. So many owners put too much trust in their GM's. After a couple embarrassing losing seasons and the owner wants some answers from his GM, his GM puts the neck of the head coach on the line.
I like coach Rod. Just remember... he is a great defensive specialist, but look who he has to work with on this football team. The current healthy secondary is consisting of all division II players. They are a joke. I knew going into this season after Bly left that any quarterback the Lions faced this year would have their best opportunity for stats. Their secondary is that bad. This line backing core of Sims, Lehman, and Baily is horrible as well with the exception of Sims. Baily has never shown anything consistent except for injuries, and Lehman was a stud in his rookie year, but is now tainted with the "Lions funk".
Just to explain what the "Lions Funk" is, it is when you know you are either drafted, picked up, or traded to the Lions. You know going in that this is a cut-rate franchise and joke of the entire league. But you are going to give it your all because you are a professional. Once you get there, and get around the other players in the locker room that have been apart of the organization too long, you know... the ones with the bad attitudes because they know its all a joke in that organization, it starts to rub off on you, but play hard anyway. Then you start the regular season, and in the midst of the first losing streak of three games one of the players who has been there a few years says, "yep... here we go again". Then the boos from the home fans, the rants on the sports radio show's, and the columns in the newspapers are heard and read. Then it sinks in just how true your feelings were coming to this franchise. Then the next game you feel like you can't play because you have "turf toe".
That is the "Lions' funk" in a nut shell. And it is going to take one heck of a GM, or head coach to get rid of it. I know it won't be with Millen. IF Marenelli could get more control of his picks, then maybe it could turn around. But I really feel Marenelli will get fired in the middle of next year, and will have more success else where.
Unfortunately Millen is somehow a family friend with the Fords. This is why he has been here so long. When he sits down at the end of this year to assess the season with Ford, he will simply blame the last half of the season on injuries. He will get off the hook again.
The only bright spot for this team is Mike Martz. He gets enough love from the announcers at the games, and more face time on the sidelines than the head coach, that he is going to be gone at the end of this year. (That is my prediction anyway).
