Sunday, December 28, 2008

Why the Lions are going 0'fer-yeah baby!!

In a little over an hour that NFL team fielded by the pathetic ownership of the Ford's gets ready to make the worst history a team can have-not winning a regular season game...I know the players are embarrassed and in no way do they want to go 0-16, but they haven't even played well in 3/4 of their games. Every veteran on this team as given up and is simply collecting a pay check at this point. To be honest, I don't really blame them because they knew they had an owner who didn't care about wins and losses...When Millen got fired, the real problem with this team became blatant: that the Ford ownership is responsible for this mess. Millen's first draft was the only one he ever really had complete control of and he drafted 3 lineman with his first 3 picks. Unfortunately-at least in the here and now-they are OL's Backus and Raola and the often dominate-but now in Cleveland-Shaun Rogers. In sum, Millen knew how to build a Superbowl contending team-you start with your interior line play. It's no co-incidence that after Ford saw how much money he dished out on those 3 players-but got little 'bang' for his buck-that things changed..."Never mind the win loss column, let's try and puts butts in the seats!"... Obviously, the drafting stratedgy took a took a major u-turn and "Millen's" next 4 drafts featured 5 draft pics, all at 'flashy' (i.e. mustangs???) positions on the field-2 of them no longer play in the NFL, and 2 others are on their way out...And here we are, the Lions are on the verge of going to the NFL hall of fame in the worst way and everything is stacked against them winning. True, Green Bay has jack to play for, but the Lions haven't won in Green Bay in 16 years...Soooooo-Go Lions!!...Ooops...Go Green Bay!!!

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