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[jdkacz]

Eh, the Lions lost to the Cardinals 10-17. Very nice, it looks like we can start talking who they'll take with the #1 pick.

QB? Troy Smith? Brady Quinn? Some other position.

Also, with the Lions going in the tank again, and with Millen not having a winning record in his 6 yrs do you think they'll finally can him?

[Michi]

Bah, the Lions...the Spartans...I sure as heck ain't rootin for the Wolverines.

[torgo]

jdkacz, on Nov 19 2006, 08:39 PM, said:

Eh, the Lions lost to the Cardinals 10-17. Very nice, it looks like we can start talking who they'll take with the #1 pick.

QB? Troy Smith? Brady Quinn? Some other position.

Also, with the Lions going in the tank again, and with Millen not having a winning record in his 6 yrs do you think they'll finally can him?

They are hopeless.  They will no doubt get a top ten pick and decide to get someone they don't need.  They haven't had a good quarterback in 50 years, and they apparently have no interest in one, either.  They are mediocre in every aspect of the game, which means they will lose all the time.  A good defense would win them half of their games.  Same thing for a good offense.  They have a C team everywhere you look, which means nothing but losing, with the occasional good game (e.g. Atlanta).  Millen absolutely HAS to go.

[torgo]

Hey, guess what? They lost again!  I don't think they are going to win more than 4 games this year.  

[jdkacz]

With the following games up ahead, I'd say they'd be lucky to get 2 wins, maybe 1 is possible with the homegame against Minnesota.

Dec 3 at New England
Dec 10 Minnesota
Dec 17 at Green Bay
Dec 24 Chicago
Dec 31 at Dallas

Brady Quinn, get ready to move a few hours east to Detroit.

[jdkacz]

I guess there are rumblings that Millen will be fired. If so, that will be an early Christmas present.

[torgo]

jdkacz, on Nov 26 2006, 11:36 PM, said:

I guess there are rumblings that Millen will be fired. If so, that will be an early Christmas present.

Good. The Lions won't draft Quinn.  The QB is not the problem.  After all, they passed on Leinart last year.

Edited by torgo, 27 November 2006 - 07:27 AM.

[Ka3kab]

The Lie-downs will probebly draft a punter for their #1 pick.  I can see it now, Millen and Paul Tagliabue standing at the podium in NYC on draft calling on the punter from South Dakota State as the top pick in the 2007 draft.  Millen, when asked why he would do such an ignorant thing, will say that a punter can add the most offense with the least amount of help from the other players.  Then the whole room will start chanting "Fire Millen" and maybe, just maybe, Ford will finally can him.

[GR8scott]

Troy Smith!! he would be good for the lions because he can run. The most frustrating thing about the lions besides their inconsitancies is the fact that there are so many 3rd downs where the QB gets sacked or throws it away. TS can throw but more importantly for the lions he can run, and working under a veteran like kitna for a couple years could be a great benifit.

[torgo]

This week's SI "power rankings" (Lions are dead last) cracked me up:

Detroit Lions (2-9)
Someone sits in a little public address booth, giggling to himself, and when the visiting Dolphins' defense is introduced, he gets ex-Lion QBs Joey Harrington's name thrown in, to achieve the full flavor of the boos, and just to make the thing more nasty, he arranges it so that Billy Joel's "Piano Man" comes over the loud speaker. Harrington plays the piano. Now the Lions are in total denial. No one claims responsibility, of course, although the finger of guilt is being leveled at a guy called Bryan Bender, their Director of Broadcast and Production. What a team! What an operation! I wish I could move this team down to 35th spot or so.

[GR8scott]

^ haha, I'm surprised there wasent another "fire Millen" rally this season.

They figured out another way to drop a game at new england by a touchdown, that makes 8? out the 10 losses by 7 points or less. That just shows that they don't know how to win.

Josh McCown at reciver and Mike Williams is on the sideline? only the lions.

[torgo]

It was funny.  They had the ball with 2:30 in the 4th,  down by 7, and I thought to myself, "hmm...we'll see three botched plays followed by an interception."  Instead, we got 2 botched plays and an interception.  Par for the course.

[torgo]

Anybody here read the onion?

Lions Claim They Spoiled Patriots' Season
DETROIT-Jubilant Lions fans, players, and coaches alike continue to ride the wave of good feelings and positive thinking that began after the team lost by only a single touchdown to the talented and efficient New England Patriots Sunday, a fact they say negates anything else the Patriots achieve this season. "For a team like ours to hold a lead against a team like that going into the fourth quarter… As far as we're concerned, an era ended with that game," Lions GM Matt Millen said Monday. "Tom Brady had to pull 15 points out of nowhere to beat us, didn't he? That's the sort of last-minute heroics that can haunt a team forever." Patriots coach Bill Belichick, while not willing to declare the Patriots' season a washout, admitted disappointment that his team "wound up playing that three-ring retard circus of a joke team so damn close."

[GR8scott]

yeah and then the patriots go and get shut out by the dolphins the next week, so something tells me it was more NE playing bad than the lions playing good

[jdkacz]

Are we pencilling in Brady Quinn? Or will Matt Miller trade the #1 pick for several 6th & 7th round picks stating "adding depth to our already talented roster was our #1 priority."

Can't wait to see how he botches this up. Just don't be the Texans who passed on stud HB Reggie Bush and the hometown stud QB Vince Young. That there was a classic Millen move.

[GR8scott]

jdkacz, on Dec 12 2006, 07:02 PM, said:

Are we pencilling in Brady Quinn? Or will Matt Miller trade the #1 pick for several 6th & 7th round picks stating "adding depth to our already talented roster was our #1 priority."

Can't wait to see how he botches this up. Just don't be the Texans who passed on stud HB Reggie Bush and the hometown stud QB Vince Young. That there was a classic Millen move.

haha the texans

T Smith vs. Quinn

Smith could be a vince young, Quinn could be another Joey, I'd go with Smith even though hes from THE ohio state

[torgo]

I don't think it matters.  If they had a #1 or #2 pick, I would like to see them draft more of a dual-threat QB like Troy Smith since the Lions have no offensive line.  But who are we kidding here?  The Lions have had top draft picks for the last five years and have a 2-11 record to show for it.  Why would getting another one be any different?  If they don't wipe out the front office and start over, their best chance is to put the team in Marinelli and Martz's complete control and let them sign whoever they want.

[torgo]

This would be interesting...

"Detroit offensive coordinator Mike Martz has a Marshall plan if the Lions need help at running back in 2007. Marshall Faulk, whose Hall of Fame career flourished in St. Louis with Martz as offensive coordinator and coach, recently said he would like to play again."
-- Detroit News

[jdkacz]

torgo, on Dec 15 2006, 01:22 PM, said:

This would be interesting...

"Detroit offensive coordinator Mike Martz has a Marshall plan if the Lions need help at running back in 2007. Marshall Faulk, whose Hall of Fame career flourished in St. Louis with Martz as offensive coordinator and coach, recently said he would like to play again."
-- Detroit News

That is interesting. It didn't work with Az-Hakir Akeem, but Faulk is a player on a whole differenet level.

Point to ponder, who was the last successful running QB that was under 6'0? Doug Flutie? I am fully against taking Smith in the first day of the draft. He is not 6'4 like Vince Young.

I don't see how they can pass on a franchise QB like Brady Quinn. He is different then Harrington in that A) He's shown much more consistant success within an environment that was much more scrutinized then Oregon. Plus, he's had 2 years of coaching of one of the NFL's most prolific offensive coordinaters in his day.

If the Lions don't take Quinn, I hope its b/c they've been able to trade down and get multiple picks in return.

[torgo]

jdkacz, on Dec 15 2006, 03:15 PM, said:

That is interesting. It didn't work with Az-Hakir Akeem, but Faulk is a player on a whole differenet level.

Point to ponder, who was the last successful running QB that was under 6'0? Doug Flutie? I am fully against taking Smith in the first day of the draft. He is not 6'4 like Vince Young.

I don't see how they can pass on a franchise QB like Brady Quinn. He is different then Harrington in that A) He's shown much more consistant success within an environment that was much more scrutinized then Oregon. Plus, he's had 2 years of coaching of one of the NFL's most prolific offensive coordinaters in his day.

If the Lions don't take Quinn, I hope its b/c they've been able to trade down and get multiple picks in return.

I would only be happy with a "skilled position" draft pick if they built up their lines.  In the only game where they played worth a crap (Atlanta), Kitna was protected so he sat back and killed the secondary.  On the other side, the Lions front 4 pressured Vick into making crappy passes and mistakes all day long.

In every game I have watched since then, the pass protection has been non-existant and the front four on the D-line have not put an ounce of pressure on anyone, especially in the fourth quarter, so Kitna is the one making stupid desicions and the other teams' QBs have picked about the Lion's secondary.

Quinn or another QB is doomed to typical Lions crash-and-burn failure until they can get some people who can block for them.