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Piss-Poor, Patsy Garcia, Performs Pathetically;Playoff Aspirations Reduced to a Piffle!

With a large sample to draw comparison to, Sunday’s performance from Jeff Garcia was without a doubt, the worst I have yet seen from a Lion’s QB. The sheer Everest-Like magnitude of the impotence of the Lion’s offense is astounding. There does not appear to be one compelling thing left about this team and organization. If someone wants to to view the glass half-full, they might say at least the team remained competitive until the end. In response, I say only 4 merciful games until this abortion of a season is over.

It is especially sad when viewing Sunday’s game because the most exciting event that occurred was a fan cavorting around the stadium with a sign that read “Fire Matt Millen”. The best contacted hit of the day was made by a security guard, while tackling the fan who celebrating his nationally-televised 15 minutes of fame. That avenging Ford employee should be signed post haste, he would make an excellent special teams participant.

Watching the game made me tearily reminiscent for days of yore. The poor performance of the Lion’s secondary conjured visions of the days when Terry Fair and Bryant Westbrook were routinely embarassed, or when Todd Lyght might get left in Randy Moss’s comet trail, or Eric Davis getting whirled around like a top as Cris Carter burned him. R. W. McQuarters, who is a decent nickel corner, should not be put in the position to be one-on-one on the outside with a player of Koren Robinson’s ability.

Where do the Lion’s go from here? Have they reached their lowpoint? Why in the Orwellian double-speak of Matt Millen, who claimed the Lions would use their remaining games to evaluate their underveloped young talent, would the Lions choose to continue to start Jeff Garcia at QB and leave Charles Rogers inactive. Not that I believe that Charles Rogers or Joey Harrington will ever amount to any sort of quality NFL talents, but with the investments the Lions have made on their behalfs, wouldn’t it be nice to have some tangible evidence of their failure? At this point, the Lions have to be one Frozen Tundra loss away from give Dan Orlowsky a whirl. I mean, what else is there left to do?