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Bye Weeks Brings Respite From Season of Discontent

The Lions are more than halfway through their 2006 bye week.   Mercifully, the bye week came at a time when they may be able to regain a few healthy, experienced players to supplement their current roster as they embark upon their Bataan death march until this season’s denouement.  I didn’t expect miracles from this team and it’s coaching staff, yet, I hoped that they would be able to muster a few more victories than they likely will as the season progresses.

Roy Williams has to be the most enthusiastic and positive player in Lions history.   His prognostications have thus far been invalid, but I harbor some meager hopes that they will win a few games down the stretch, even if it isn’t the 9 wins that Williams speculated that the team was capable of.  In regards to Williams, I believe that his statements are getting amplified since there is so little to report about this vintage of the Lions.   Easily, this is one of the more uninteresting Lions teams in their history.  Other than Roy Williams habitually inserting his foot into his mouth, Shaun Rogers’ “Supplement-Gate” suspension, Joe Cullen’s “Naked Drive-Thru” excapade, and the uselessness of Mike Williams there is very little to get excited about with this team.

Hopefully, the Lions can make a run to provide a little future hope for this organization.   In recent years there has been so little sign that things are taking a step forward, that any tangible sign that there really is a light at the end of the tunnel will be greatly appreciated.