Tuesday, January 02, 2007

How Can Matt Millen still be employed?

This is baffling me...preparations for the Giants are still a day away, and as expected the first guillotines have already dropped on a few head coaches this year...

Arizona's Denny Green was the first, who "coached" his team consistently enough...constant poor starts and miserable 5-6 win seasons...followed shortly by Jim I-was-just-kidding-about-wanting-to-be-UW's-head-coach Mora Jr. (more on him later)....

And then came the announcement from the Lions....Def Coordinator Henderson - FIRED...O-line Coach Beightol - FIRED...special teams coach GONE....Man ultimately responsible for all football decisions (coaching changes, draft picks, etc), GM Matt Millen, uh...retained??? What the hell? Millen, the utter buffoon who in the past six seasons has managed to accrue an astoundingly poor 24-72 record, a record that may be as permanent a stain as there is in football because it seems very improbably any franchise in the future will tolerate such a prolonged string of ineptitude without ridding itself of the clowns responsible.

I will "never quit" he said as the pink-slips (and not enough of them) got doled around the Ford Center...who gives a shit if your a fighter Matt? We all knew and respected you as a hard-nosed player...we have been equally convinced of your complete and utter inability to manage a football team. Isn't six years of horrid football enough for the Ford family?

When your team "peaks" at 6-10 (enough to secure a third place finish in the four team NFC North in 2004), as the Lions did in year 4 of Millen's ongoing reign of terror against football fans in Detroit then its well past time for a re-assessment...It was time for a wrecking ball to swing through the organizations about two years ago...instead excuses are foisted on the Detroit fans as to why the Lions continue to suck....The best one: 1st year head coach Rod Marinelli firing his Defensive Coordinator Donnie Henderson, reputedly a close friend, because poor Donnie had NO clue how to run the much-ballyhooed Tampa Cover 2 that Rod brought with him from Tampon Bray...

um excuse me, doesn't such a revelation at the end of the season strike anyone else as a little frickin' ODD??? Doesn't it concern anyone in the Detroit Lions organization that their new head coach either kept around or hired a defensive coordinator with NO EXPERIENCE running the type of defense he wanted installed on his team??? We have a word for that, evidently unknown in the environs of Detroit, it is known as NEGLIGENCE....

Finally a word for the Detroit fans, I feel sorry for you. I really do. No team deserves such incompetence. The only silver-lining...the bitingly funny FireMillen.com get to be around for another season...I laughed my ass off at Devil Dog's response to the news that Millen was staying, he wrote:

"We’re all cursed.

It’s like Pirates of the Caribbean where we are the pirates looking for the gold pieces to lift our curse, except Millen ate the last gold piece and won't shit it out - now were stuck forever.

Millen sounded off today saying he "will never quit." It is apparent he will never be fired either. I'm so at a loss for words its sickening."

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