In one of the more confusing statements to come from a franchise with a history of confusion, Detroit Lions GM Martin Mayhew hasn’t ruled out bringing second-string QB Daunte Culpepper back for another season. Anyone that’s followed the team this year has got to wonder why. Culpepper did nothing to distinguish himself in the past [...]
Culpepper wants to win NFC North
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Can we just stop the madness? Every year, we hear some delusional Lions player or coach come out and talk about the fighting spirit of the team and how this is a breakthrough year. The year … to the Super Bowl, winning 10 games, or maybe winning the NFC North. This year, it’s Quarterback Daunte [...]
Here we go again: Kevin Smith predicts Lions to make playoffs
May 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There are many ways in which we regularly practice irreality in these parts. One is that we pretend that who is Detroit’s mayor can actually fix the massive structural and economic problems of the city. The other is that we have hopes for the Lions. In what’s become an annual rite of denial, Lions running [...]
Lions draft Stafford with first pick
April 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Proving that organizations, like humans, don’t always learn from their mistakes, the Detroit Lions selected University of Georgia Quarterback Matt Stafford with the first pick in Saturday’s NFL draft. While Stafford is clearly endowed with a wealth of potential and talent, it remains to be seen whether the Detroit Lions organization has the resources that [...]
Lions deny everything, yet admit they expect deal with top pick before draft day
April 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
SI.com ranks Lions as fourth-most motivated to land Jay Cutler
April 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
According to SI.com, the Lions are the fourth-most motivated team to land Jay Cutler, behind the Jets, the Buccaneers and the Browns. I’m wondering why anyone in Detroit thinks Cutler would agree to a move to the Lions. The team and organization have not yet proven that they have a working plan for rebuilding. And [...]
No. 3 network goes for good enough, defends Millen hiring
January 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
He’s out of town but he is not yet off of our televisions. Former Lions General Mangler Matt Millen, hired as an “expert” analyst of professional football by perennial ratings wallflower NBC a few weeks ago after architecting the league’s worst-ever team, has not managed to move that network’s ratings to fourth place, yet. In [...]
Lions lose opener 34-21, fans and management remain delusional
September 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
We’ve seen a similar pattern in every year of the Millen regime. Matt and Lions-coach-of-the-moment start off training camp with cliches such as “This is a great bunch of guys” and “We’re going to work harder” and then, once the season starts, we are all returned to reality. This year is a bit different. The [...]
Millen’s worst draft picks
April 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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