Lions Begin Playing Off-Season Poker, Millen Speaks
February 20, 2008 on 3:52 pm | In Uncategorized |The Lions are currently holding their cards quite close to their vest in regards to any upcoming off-season personnel moves. After a recent exploratory meeting with veteran MLB Al Wilson, they were surprisingly non-committal in response to inquiries about any future interest that they may have in eventually signing Wilson.
Rod Marinelli has stated that the Lions want to continue to get younger and faster. The Lions seem to be comfortable in allowing the chips to fall as they may, and then begin to make some decisions from there. I agree with their plan to not rush headlong into free agency, in attempt to make sound decisions, however, facing the daunting task of retooling a very bad defense this off-season, it is still an alarming position to take.
It also is apparent that the Lions are prepared to let all of their potential unrestricted free agents explore their free agent opportunities, rather than re-sign any of them before free agency begins. Their have been no public decisions made in regards to the immediate futures of players like Fernando Bryant, Kalimba Edwards, and Shaun Rogers, all players who appeared to be candidates for release.
Matt Millen spoke to the Detroit News’ Mike O’Hara at the Indianapolis NFL draft combine, which begins today. Millen said that the Lions “wasted a tremendous opportunity” by playing so poorly during the last eight games of the season.
Millen, as always, is a master of understatement. He conveniently denied comment about what he believed lead to the team’s eventual demise as a playoff contender, and certainly didn’t posit any future solutions, either.
As much as Millen and Marinelli still want to go about the charade of portraying themselves as qualified to lead this franchise, it is growing increasingly apparent, at least in my eyes, that as Lions fans we should be very concerned about what the future holds for the Lions in ‘08/’09.
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Matt Millen is an idiot, peabrained blockhead who, if he were captain of the Titanic, would have told everybody that nothing is wrong and ordered everybody back to their rooms. I haven’t seen such denial since the McGovern’s supporters said “I don’t know how he lost, everybody I know voted for him.” I’ve had it. My cats could run a better organization than Millen. Nothing is this guy’s fault. He is completely blameless.
I guess it’s time to start making draft day predictions. I predict, in the First Round of the 2008 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions take [a bust].
Comment by Angry Lion Fan f/k/a Hondo — February 22, 2008 #
On one hand, by talking, Millen reveals his incompetence much more obviously than when he is all clammed up and unavailable to the media. On the other hand, Millen’s recent statements highlight just how pathetic things have become during his 31-81 tenure.
Like I have said before, I miss the Matt Millen who was calling out “devout cowards” and “faggots”, rather than the one who appears to annually come from out of some cloistered away location and admit his failings, only to retreat back to that same cloistered away location and only continue to mess things up horribly.
The Socrates “cave allegory” probably explains it best. Matt Millen, like the individual who is chained up inside the cave, only seems to see the shadows reflected on the cave wall, rather the reality of the situation. The more the Lions ineptitude is allowed the fester, the more I believe that internally, the Lions honestly have no clue how bad they truly are.
Comment by Steve — February 23, 2008 #