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Lions Implode in Disgusting Road Loss to Vikings

Only the Lions could find the means to play as completely inept and uninspired as they did on Sunday against Minnesota, with 12 days of game preparation, in a game that should have been akin to their Super Bowl game, considering it’s playoff implications.  

Sunday’s loss may have been as poor of a showing for a Lions team as we have ever seen in recent years.  Matt Millen, Mr. 30-78, has to be really scratching his head now.   It is really quite amazing how often that everything that he comes into contact with, and all of the decisions that he has made (that often, at least on the surface level appear to be credible) (alchemically?) are routinely transformed into feces.

What is their left to be said?  Roy Williams is likely out for the remainder of the season.   The Lions are highly unlikely to win anymore than one (Chiefs) of their remaining games.  The Lions have so thoroughly blown their playoff opportunity, that it leaves me wondering what exactly is there for them to continue to play for?

After this season, I would say that there is a better than 75% chance that Mike Martz and Special Teams Coach Stan Kwan will be looking for new jobs.   At this point, if you are going to blow out half of your coordinators anyhow, maybe it is time to consider starting over from scratch, yet again, with a completely new Lions coaching staff.

Rod Marinelli, as much as I respect him, has not been successful in any tangible way in his continuing process of changing the essential fabric of the members of this team.   At this point, I am quite certain that the poisonous, contagious, loser mentality, or in other words, what has constituted the status quo in Allen Park for years, will eventually win out over Marinelli’s incessant refrain of ”one snap at a time”-type motivational incantations.

The 900 pound elephant in the room is Bill Cowher.    Is there any other coach more prepared than Cowher to so completely transform an organization?   Cowher, who remains a free agent, could possibly be persuaded to take on the incredible challenge of fixing this moribund franchise.  The W.C. Fords would have to be willing to hand him a blank check, and the unfettered promise of complete organizational control in order to convince Cowher to surrender his comfortable retirement.