The end is nigh, my friends. When your favorite team's head coach accepts the responsibility for the massive failure of his team throughout the season and furthermore, after their blowout loss in a premier game on a national stage in front of the countless millions of fans nationwide and amongst all of his peers, in a lot of ways it appears that Steve Mariucci is attempting to force the hands of Matt Millen and the ownership to issue his dismissal by clearly delineating his faults and giving them a valid reason to do so.

Today's game was a huge black eye for this organization and a major setback in their "rebuilding" of the team. If the penalties and turnovers weren't enough, the Lions inability to score against the Falcon's defense until the game was too far out of reach for the TD to matter and the embarassing shuffling of QB's throughout the game are all clear signs that Mooch has no clue as to what will turn things around for this team. The Lions were unable to run against the poor Falcon's rush defense. Their receiver's are dropping more passes than they had earlier in the year and clearly their is no direction for improving upon all of these deficiencies.

I see no other recourse for the W. C. Fords, they need to admit that the direction the season has taken for this team is unacceptable and will no longer be abided. Furthermore, Matt Millen needs to be put on immediate notice that even with his recent contract extension, his next coaching hire will make or break his status within their organization. His legacy as team president has become a complete failure and their needs to be outside consultation brought in to assist in front office decision-making going forward. The Lions are teetering on the brink of mailing in the current season, I hope that the front office view is that this is totally unacceptable.

The biggest slap in the face for me is when the game got out of hand the broadcast crew ran out of commentary for the current game and proceeded to discuss other NFL team's or topics to fill the time because the game is so one-sided and bereft of suspense. I also hate that when the game reaches that stage that the broadcast camera's no longer take crowd shots to avoid showing how empty the stands have become. Hopefully, the Fords realize that nearly irreparable harm has been done to the future health of this team.

I am most disappointed by the fact that I was duped into believing that prior to this season that Lion's may actually be competitive. HA! This team is clearly worse than last year's version and will be lucky to win even one more game down the stretch. I have nearly reached the point that I am beginning to agree with the growing sentiment that the Lions should no longer be awarded the annual home Thanksgiving game, it is clear that they no longer relish the opportunity that they have been given with this game. Falcon's Head Coach Jim Mora, Jr. was nice to the Lions and good buddy Steve Mariucci, too. If he hadn't called in the dogs in the third quarter, the game could have been a blowout to rival last year's to Indianapolis. How many more games until this season ends?