Yep, yet another Detroit Lions rant from the Tchock-ster

Tchocky · 10-09-2006, 11:08 AM

I've had it with this team. At least when the Lions were mediocre in the mid-late 1990's there was at least Barry Sanders. Now there's nothing...just a ragtag group of Glass Joes and prima-donnas.

Seeing Roy Williams and Damien Woody get hauled off the field on the meat wagon is a microcosm to what Detroit Fans have gotten used to seeing during the five year reign of team president Matt Millen. On the rare occasion this team gets talent, they can never use it.

Over the aforementioned past five years, Millen has taken a borderline playoff team and turned it into the Midwest's version of the Oakland Raiders. Little attention has been paid to improving a piss-poor offensive line. The roster is filled with workout warriors who simply cannot play the game, has-beens (or never weres) veterans and players who are talented but simply cannot stay out of the trainers room. The utter lack of durable, premium talent on this team is laughable. Even their punter sucks.

Last season, Millen made probably his best administrative move of his tenure and fired Steve Mariucci, then the coach of the Lions. His lax discipline and uncreative Wet Toast offense had created in the Lions' locker room an atmosphere of apathy and lame so thick you could stick a spoon into it and eat it. Over the next offseason and preseason he then proceeded to rid the roster of two key figures over the past few years, failed franchise QB Joey Harrington and glass-collarboned, weed smoking WR Charles Rogers, Millen's second and third first-round draft picks respectively. Hoping to instill an air of toughness and excitment in the air in Motown, Millen hired hard-ass former d-line coach Rod Marinelli to lead this team, as well as supposed offensive guru Mike Martz to coordinate the offense, who while in St. Louis had turned a former grocery store stockboy and a seventh-round pick out of West Virgina into Pro Bowl QBs.

And the results of all this turnover? The same. While the Lions' offense has shown flashes of brilliance, that brilliance has come at the expense of some rather weak defenses (St. Louis and Green Bay). And the defense has indeed changed from last season, but not for the better. The pass defense might be the worst I've ever seen on a Lions squad. There has been zero pressure on opposing QBs. It's sad when your best defensive player is a rookie (and even he's probably gonna get hurt or suspended eventually, given his history of concussions and legal trouble). And as for the players themselves, after ONE game of playing with passion and excitement, I see the same old Lions hanging their heads and going through the motions like they don't care.

This team is the worst in the NFL. No excitement. No leadership. Just apathy. No coach in the league could give this team a shot in the arm. It's certainly beyond Marinelli's ability. And fans, for one, are sick of it. They're sick of the sight of Millen sitting in the suites smiling while sipping beer and watching the teams of boys he put together try to play a man's game. They're sick of seeing hand-picked hacks like Harrington and Kitna at QB "leading" this team to defeat after miserable defeat. They're sick of seeing Roy Williams run his mouth like a WR that has actually done anything and then get hauled off the field (oh my poor head!). They're sick of a defense that's filled with a bewildering array of suckers that couldn't defend a team of turtles in the middle of winter. They're sick of seeing the players on their favorite team hang their head and go through the motions Sunday after Sunday.

This team is fat, lazy, miserable, fragile and hopeless. They're the Midwest's version of the Oakland Raiders. But crap, even the Raiders have Randy Moss. What do the Lions have?

I want to see Millen fired, but it won't happen. As long as the idiot masses attend the games either because they're clinging to false hope that things will get better or are attending games just to protest the team, the Ford family will keep Millen. Why? Because the team will still be making money. As long as this team keeps turning a profit, there no reason for the Fords to change anything. As much as I enjoy seeing a hack owner like Washington's Daniel Snyder try to throw money at all the problems his team faces, I will give him credit for trying. The Ford family doesn't try. They simply don't care.

So I issue this plea to Detroit Lions fans everywhere...Stop caring about your team. It's the only way that this team will ever improve. It took over a decade of utter shit and fan apathy, but Tigers owner Mike Illitch finally got the memo, made some outstanding administrative and personel moves, and now the Tigers have gone from 100-loss laughingstocks to four wins away from the World Series. It took almost a decade of suffering through the Grant Hill Show and its aftermath, but in the end Pistons owner Bill Davidson saw what was happening, invested in a solid team president who proceeded to invest in players and coaches willing to buy into his vision of a cohesive team, and the Pistons went from being mediocre to perennial contenders.

Yet Lions fans keep packing the stadium, year after year, loss after loss. Why?

It's time for a change. Cut off the head and this monster will die. William Clay Ford Sr. please fire Matt Millen and either pay Ron Wolf a billion dollars to come out of retirement (it's not like you Fords are using that money to build good cars anyway), or get on the phone with whoever has been running either Bears, Eagles, Patriots, Ravens, Seahawks, or Steelers and see if they have any recomendations for a new president and/or director of talent scouting. It's not too late to turn this thing around and admit you were wrong when you hired Millen. But first you must acknowledge your mistake. Your team cannot wait any longer. Millen's tenure as Lions' president has been an utter joke. It should be painfully clear to you that even after five years this man knows next to nothing about scouting and evaluating talent, running a football franchise, and public relations. And if it will take fan apathy for you to start making good decisions about what to do with your football franchise, so be it.

Lions fans, until the day this team turns into something worthy of being cared about, please stop caring. Maybe then, after seeing all the the empty seats and fan apathy, the Fords will actually take steps toward building something good. And it will start with firing Millen.

Go Tigers!

Eulogy · 10-09-2006, 11:14 AM

It's good to be a Bears fan.

Tchocky · 10-09-2006, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Eulogy

It's good to be a Bears fan.

God, they're kicking seven kinds of ass, ain't they?

At least the Wolverines haven't let me down so far...the next two weeks will either make or break their season.

Mooney · 10-09-2006, 11:28 AM

go eagles, go.

neopryn · 10-09-2006, 11:36 AM

at least you don't have to watch the Steelers

KrazeeStacee · 10-09-2006, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Eulogy

It's good to be a Bears fan.

I don't even like football, but this has caused me to actually start watching it. We might even go to a game with our friends!

KrazeeStacee · 10-09-2006, 11:40 AM

I only like sports when our teams are doing good.

Tchocky · 10-09-2006, 11:44 AM

Football games live are tons of fun. Feeding off the energy of the crowd is great. And there are no annoying announcers. Of course, if you wanna go the bathroom or don't have money for the expensive concessions...:erm

Trotskilicious · 10-09-2006, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by KrazeeStacee

I only like sports when our teams are doing good.

Die in the face.

AndySlash · 10-09-2006, 12:21 PM

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So I issue this plea to Detroit Lions fans everywhere...

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Bueller?

AndySlash · 10-09-2006, 12:23 PM

Fucking carets.

neopryn · 10-09-2006, 12:24 PM

AndySlash · 10-09-2006, 12:25 PM

Disabling smilies works wonders, eh?

Nimrod's Son · 10-09-2006, 12:29 PM

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Fucking carets.

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AndySlash · 10-09-2006, 12:48 PM

HAY GUYZ I'M ON IT!

Tchocky · 10-09-2006, 01:16 PM

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yo soy el mejor · 10-09-2006, 01:18 PM

you could have typed up a post this long about a shark killing your mother and taking your right leg and it would have gotten tl;dr. sports fans are such losers

Elvis The Fat Years · 10-09-2006, 01:22 PM

why do click on sports threads, yo soy el mejor?

yo soy el mejor · 10-09-2006, 01:27 PM

why do sports fans clickon them? fucking losers.

Tchocky · 10-09-2006, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

you could have typed up a post this long about a shark killing your mother and taking your right leg and it would have gotten tl;dr. sports fans are such losers

Bite me.

Elvis The Fat Years · 10-09-2006, 01:33 PM

thats a great answer, yo soy el mejor. tell us more.

10-09-2006, 11:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
Tchocky Apocalyptic Poster Location: Wher I en nd yu begn Posts: 4,235	Yep, yet another Detroit Lions rant from the Tchock-ster I've had it with this team. At least when the Lions were mediocre in the mid-late 1990's there was at least Barry Sanders. Now there's nothing...just a ragtag group of Glass Joes and prima-donnas. Seeing Roy Williams and Damien Woody get hauled off the field on the meat wagon is a microcosm to what Detroit Fans have gotten used to seeing during the five year reign of team president Matt Millen. On the rare occasion this team gets talent, they can never use it. Over the aforementioned past five years, Millen has taken a borderline playoff team and turned it into the Midwest's version of the Oakland Raiders. Little attention has been paid to improving a piss-poor offensive line. The roster is filled with workout warriors who simply cannot play the game, has-beens (or never weres) veterans and players who are talented but simply cannot stay out of the trainers room. The utter lack of durable, premium talent on this team is laughable. Even their punter sucks. Last season, Millen made probably his best administrative move of his tenure and fired Steve Mariucci, then the coach of the Lions. His lax discipline and uncreative Wet Toast offense had created in the Lions' locker room an atmosphere of apathy and lame so thick you could stick a spoon into it and eat it. Over the next offseason and preseason he then proceeded to rid the roster of two key figures over the past few years, failed franchise QB Joey Harrington and glass-collarboned, weed smoking WR Charles Rogers, Millen's second and third first-round draft picks respectively. Hoping to instill an air of toughness and excitment in the air in Motown, Millen hired hard-ass former d-line coach Rod Marinelli to lead this team, as well as supposed offensive guru Mike Martz to coordinate the offense, who while in St. Louis had turned a former grocery store stockboy and a seventh-round pick out of West Virgina into Pro Bowl QBs. And the results of all this turnover? The same. While the Lions' offense has shown flashes of brilliance, that brilliance has come at the expense of some rather weak defenses (St. Louis and Green Bay). And the defense has indeed changed from last season, but not for the better. The pass defense might be the worst I've ever seen on a Lions squad. There has been zero pressure on opposing QBs. It's sad when your best defensive player is a rookie (and even he's probably gonna get hurt or suspended eventually, given his history of concussions and legal trouble). And as for the players themselves, after ONE game of playing with passion and excitement, I see the same old Lions hanging their heads and going through the motions like they don't care. This team is the worst in the NFL. No excitement. No leadership. Just apathy. No coach in the league could give this team a shot in the arm. It's certainly beyond Marinelli's ability. And fans, for one, are sick of it. They're sick of the sight of Millen sitting in the suites smiling while sipping beer and watching the teams of boys he put together try to play a man's game. They're sick of seeing hand-picked hacks like Harrington and Kitna at QB "leading" this team to defeat after miserable defeat. They're sick of seeing Roy Williams run his mouth like a WR that has actually done anything and then get hauled off the field (oh my poor head!). They're sick of a defense that's filled with a bewildering array of suckers that couldn't defend a team of turtles in the middle of winter. They're sick of seeing the players on their favorite team hang their head and go through the motions Sunday after Sunday. This team is fat, lazy, miserable, fragile and hopeless. They're the Midwest's version of the Oakland Raiders. But crap, even the Raiders have Randy Moss. What do the Lions have? I want to see Millen fired, but it won't happen. As long as the idiot masses attend the games either because they're clinging to false hope that things will get better or are attending games just to protest the team, the Ford family will keep Millen. Why? Because the team will still be making money. As long as this team keeps turning a profit, there no reason for the Fords to change anything. As much as I enjoy seeing a hack owner like Washington's Daniel Snyder try to throw money at all the problems his team faces, I will give him credit for trying. The Ford family doesn't try. They simply don't care. So I issue this plea to Detroit Lions fans everywhere...Stop caring about your team. It's the only way that this team will ever improve. It took over a decade of utter shit and fan apathy, but Tigers owner Mike Illitch finally got the memo, made some outstanding administrative and personel moves, and now the Tigers have gone from 100-loss laughingstocks to four wins away from the World Series. It took almost a decade of suffering through the Grant Hill Show and its aftermath, but in the end Pistons owner Bill Davidson saw what was happening, invested in a solid team president who proceeded to invest in players and coaches willing to buy into his vision of a cohesive team, and the Pistons went from being mediocre to perennial contenders. Yet Lions fans keep packing the stadium, year after year, loss after loss. Why? It's time for a change. Cut off the head and this monster will die. William Clay Ford Sr. please fire Matt Millen and either pay Ron Wolf a billion dollars to come out of retirement (it's not like you Fords are using that money to build good cars anyway), or get on the phone with whoever has been running either Bears, Eagles, Patriots, Ravens, Seahawks, or Steelers and see if they have any recomendations for a new president and/or director of talent scouting. It's not too late to turn this thing around and admit you were wrong when you hired Millen. But first you must acknowledge your mistake. Your team cannot wait any longer. Millen's tenure as Lions' president has been an utter joke. It should be painfully clear to you that even after five years this man knows next to nothing about scouting and evaluating talent, running a football franchise, and public relations. And if it will take fan apathy for you to start making good decisions about what to do with your football franchise, so be it. Lions fans, until the day this team turns into something worthy of being cared about, please stop caring. Maybe then, after seeing all the the empty seats and fan apathy, the Fords will actually take steps toward building something good. And it will start with firing Millen. Go Tigers! __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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10-09-2006, 11:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
Eulogy huh Posts: 37,315	It's good to be a Bears fan.

10-09-2006, 11:28 AM	#4 (permalink)
Mooney Socialphobic Posts: 10,443	go eagles, go.

10-09-2006, 11:36 AM	#5 (permalink)
neopryn let's see your penis! Location: i had a few beers, but i'm cool to drive Posts: 31,505	at least you don't have to watch the Steelers

10-09-2006, 11:40 AM	#7 (permalink)
KrazeeStacee Immortal Location: Sherwood Forest Posts: 21,007	I only like sports when our teams are doing good.

10-09-2006, 11:44 AM	#8 (permalink)
Tchocky Apocalyptic Poster Location: Wher I en nd yu begn Posts: 4,235	Football games live are tons of fun. Feeding off the energy of the crowd is great. And there are no annoying announcers. Of course, if you wanna go the bathroom or don't have money for the expensive concessions...:erm

10-09-2006, 12:23 PM	#11 (permalink)
AndySlash bone thugs in harmon Posts: 17,883	Fucking carets.

10-09-2006, 12:25 PM	#13 (permalink)
AndySlash bone thugs in harmon Posts: 17,883	Disabling smilies works wonders, eh?

10-09-2006, 12:48 PM	#15 (permalink)
AndySlash bone thugs in harmon Posts: 17,883	HAY GUYZ I'M ON IT!

10-09-2006, 01:18 PM	#17 (permalink)
yo soy el mejor Immortal Location: IN THE ARMS OF RAMESH MACLEAN SRIVASTAVA. WARM. Posts: 25,956	you could have typed up a post this long about a shark killing your mother and taking your right leg and it would have gotten tl;dr. sports fans are such losers

10-09-2006, 01:22 PM	#18 (permalink)
Elvis The Fat Years Said she waited on Elvis Location: Unhappiness used to mean something. Now it's just a drag like a cold or having no money. Posts: 28,817	why do click on sports threads, yo soy el mejor?

10-09-2006, 01:27 PM	#19 (permalink)
yo soy el mejor Immortal Location: IN THE ARMS OF RAMESH MACLEAN SRIVASTAVA. WARM. Posts: 25,956	why do sports fans clickon them? fucking losers.

10-09-2006, 01:33 PM	#21 (permalink)
Elvis The Fat Years Said she waited on Elvis Location: Unhappiness used to mean something. Now it's just a drag like a cold or having no money. Posts: 28,817	thats a great answer, yo soy el mejor. tell us more.