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    Donahoe or Mullarkey

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    Thats easy. MM stays. Ralph will never pay for three more years to a coach thats not on the team. So were stuck with him.

    If it were up to me...I would get rid of everyone...including the scouting department. The only one that stays is April ,Mcnally, Wyche and Szabo.

    In the front office you keep Linda Bognan,Scott Berchtold,Russ Brandon and Munson and Overdorf.

    Has Moulds been suspended?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    Thanks for clearing it up & being on top of things on the board.  I wish you'd start streaming again so I can listen more often than just home game weekends.

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    I agree ...At 5:00 WGR cuts out in Rochester. I go crazy when that happens.

    I think they turn their power down at that time.

    Hey Brad talk management into to getting streaming radio again.

    Why don't they try it with a membership if its about money.

    I'd join in a second.

    WHAM now on the web

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    Awesome -

    I especially love Bob "I pick the biggest favorite every week as my 'best bet' against the spread" Matthews.  What a square.

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    He really pissed me off last night with his comment on JP.

    They were talking about Willis being lacadasical.

    He said if I were Willis I'd be unmotivated to if I had J.P. as my starting quarterback.

     

    Is it just me or am I the only one that thinks JPs been playing pretty good .

    And one of the few that plays with passion on this team for the offense.

    On defense Fletcher brings it every week.

    He should resign

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    After five years of Millen running the worst franchise in the NFL deeper into the ground, the move would be long overdue.

     

    Oh Im sorry...I thought they were talkimg about Donahoe. :D

     

     

    But if the Detroit Lions president wants anyone to believe he learned anything about values during his playing days, he ought to do the only honorable, team-first thing on the week he fired another of his coaching hires.

     

    He should resign.

     

    After five years of Millen running the worst franchise in the NFL deeper into the ground, the move would be long overdue.

     

    The Lions stunk when Millen took over. They are worse now. The fact he will be hiring the third head coach under his tenure is just one of a million mind numbingly bad stats.

     

    There should be no shame in failure for Millen. He was hired as an out-of-the-box idea for a franchise that has won just a single playoff game since 1957. The Lions have wallowed between bad and mediocre for so long that the hiring of a TV personality with no front office or business management experience seemed like a what-the-heck gamble. How much worse could it get, right?

     

    Millen could always talk a good game, but in the Motor City, he has shown an aptitude for nothing else.

     

    The Lions are a league-worst 20-55 since his hiring in 2001, worse even than the expansion Houston Texans and Cleveland Browns. Despite spending five first-round draft picks on offensive skill positions, the Lions are averaging just 15.8 points a game.

     

    In head-scratching fashion, Millen chose wide receivers in the first round in each of the last three drafts. One of the receivers, Charles Rogers, was suspended for a month this year under the league's substance abuse policy.

     

    Both of his two coaching hires – Marty Morningweg, who famously once chose to kick off after winning the coin toss in overtime, and Mariucci, who ran an offense that seemed allergic to throwing downfield – have been fired. The team has few stars, no clear course and more holes to fill than five years ago.

     

    And yet Millen remains.

     

    Why the Ford family gave him a five-year extension last summer remains a mystery in Detroit. It wasn't like Millen was a hot commodity. No other franchise would've been foolish enough to hire him. While much of that money wasn't guaranteed – meaning he could be bought out – there has been no indication that he's being sought by another team. The guy just isn't a good administrator and letting him hire another head coach just delays his inevitable doom.

     

    Admitting failure is not easy, especially for a Super Bowl champion player like Millen. But to call his tenure in Detroit a catastrophe is unfair … to catastrophes.

     

    The brooming of Mariucci, who seemed uncomfortable with the personnel Millen kept supplying him, is just the latest copout. It's not that Mooch had done much to deserve to stay – the Lions are 4-7 and looked hopeless in consecutive losses – but this is a mess that begins at the top.

     

    When Millen was hired, his credentials were questioned. He may have been a terrific arm-chair GM on FOX broadcasts, but what, exactly, did he know about setting up a winning franchise?

     

    His response was he played for Joe Paterno at Penn State and Bill Walsh in San Francisco and pretty much left it at that. He had football values, a no-nonsense attitude and a big work ethic. He rode a Harley. He was a tough guy.

     

    The Ford family bought it. They are still buying it. No one else is, though.

     

    So if Millen really wants to honor his mentors, honor the game he holds so dear and prove that tackle drills, wind sprints and adoring cheerleaders really do make football players better human beings, he ought to do what is right and step down now.

     

    It doesn't make him a bad guy. It doesn't tarnish his great playing career. It doesn't make him a poor announcer.

     

    It would just make him a respectable football man.

    Keyshawn Johnson busts Drew's balls

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    What the Jumbotron operator at Texas Stadium did Sunday was so nefarious, so vicious, so nasty that even mentioning it seems cruel.

    His crime?

     

    He flashed Cowboys quarterback Drew Bledsoe’s up-to-the-minute stats at some point of the third quarter, and they were ugly.

     

    Nine-for-20 ugly.

     

    So ugly that, upon seeing them, receiver Keyshawn Johnson shouted to Bledsoe: “Hey, J.P. Losman, good game.”

     

    Now, aside from calling him Quincy Carter, there may be no worse insult for Bledsoe. Losman is the kid the Bills chose to replace Bledsoe this off-season. He has been worse than awful for most of the year.

     

    Johnson was joking, of course.

     

    Bledsoe, after firing back a good-natured expletive, chuckled.

     

    What the numbers and the Losman reference are good for is reminding everybody that, while it may indeed be all about the quarterback in the National Football League, there are days when it has to be about the running back.

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