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“Big” Mike Williams Dismissed from 4 Team Practices

I am really beginning to question the mental capacities of players like Mike Williams and Charles Rogers. The Lions hire an Offensive Coordinator (Mike Martz) who is regarded as one of the true offensive geniuses in the current league, who will install an offense that will give them plenty of opportunities to excel and potentially flourish, and neither have the apparent motivation or make-up to grab a hold of the chance that they have been recently given.

I realize that both players are young and relatively inexperienced (Williams’s year off, Rogers’s suspensions and injuries). I also understand that they have had to weather the adversities of the Lions organization (coaching/system changes, QB carousel). That being said, I am really disappointed in the recent suspension of Mike Williams. Williams, who is struggling to lose the weight necessary to get into playing shape for the new offense, is attempting to catch-up from a lackluster first season. I don’t really know how much more motivated a guy should need to be, yet he finds a way to earn a mini-vacation during the mini-camps.

It would not shock me in the least that neither Rogers or Williams is on the opening game roster. As much as I disdain the thought of players like Mike Furrey, Corey Bradford, and Scottie Vines manning the receiving corps, the Lions have to be nearing the end of their patience with these young receivers