Millen’s Wife Labels Detroit "Football Prison"…Mark Schlereth Calls Millen "Garbage"
I would like to take this opportunity and just welcome the Detroit Lions back to the National Football League! Can’t say anybody missed you as every fan cherished to see the Lions appear on their respective team schedule over the years, and of course we’ll certainly miss that…Although, we still have the Oakland Raiders to look forward to playing. So all isn’t that bad!

Speaking of bad, I can’t decide who was worse…Matt Millen in Detroit or Isiah Thomas in New York? Pick your poison there, literally! This version of "Dumb & Dumber" can compare notes of how to run an organization into the ground…Burying it deeper and deeper year in and year out, making a travishamockery of sorts, making fans live in misery and still some how retain their freaking position with the team! They’re spitting images of each other…Well, besides one being black and one being white, (for those who are color blind).

As noted year in and year out Millen had to go….Unfortunately, it took William Clay Ford’s little ankle biter to call pops out on national television to knock some common sense into his old ass cranium. My guess is if he would’ve known it would’ve been that easy, he would’ve called pops out on national boobtubeion oh say, four or five years before this week! Surprisingly enough we were all flabbergasted, the deer in the headlights look if you will as we heard the news of Millen’s axing…Having to check our calendars to see if it was April Fools Day or something. Hell, it’s like the Lions just won the Super Bowl or something…Everybody, (well mostly everybody’s rejoicing…Get to that in a bit.

Now through Millen’s tenure, we’ve all had are opinions of this jackass from afar…Although how about peeps who had to try and work along side this loser, what must’ve that been like? Oh yeah, HELL! Wonder what Steve Mariucci thinks of this shit for brains? When asked if Millen forced him to start Joey Harrington, Mariucci offered this:

[Millen] wanted to see if we could make [Harrington] into a legitimate starting quarterback -- a winning quarterback -- and I was willing to do that early. As time went on, you know, a young quarterback with a young team -- that's not a good recipe for success.

So, we weren't quite sure that he was going to be the guy. In fact, we suggested, you know, trading with somebody else for other veteran quarterbacks because we gradually believed that Joey would be better suited to be a backup for a while and watch somebody else do it.

So Matt wasn't willing to spend more money on the quarterback position. Matt insisted that we try to develop Joey and build up other parts of the team while we were trying to develop his skills, but it wasn't going to happen.

Mariucci also gave his thoughts on Millen taking wideouts Charles Rogers and Mike Williams with top-10 picks even though, as Rich Eisen suggested, he was against it:

Philosophically, when you build a team -- and, you know, he took the team apart -- they were 9-7 when Matt took over, they were a decent football team and he tried to take it apart and get it to the next level. So there's a lot of rebuilding that needs to be done. With that said, to spend four early draft picks on one position is philosophically difficult to do because you are maybe loading up one position, which two out of the four worked out. Calvin Johnson is going to be a good player and so is Roy [Williams].

But Mike Williams was not somebody we collectively wanted to draft. That came as quite a surprise on draft day that we ended up drafting him when there were so many other good players on the board. In the meantime, you neglect your defense and some other areas of need...
But [Millen] was trying to put in a supporting cast for Joey, to develop Joey's ability to succeed and he did it with the receiver position.

Mooch, didn’t throw him under the bus too bad…He just stated the obvious that everybody knew! HE’S A SHITFORBRAINS!

Although while everybody has taken a shot at Millen, a few hours after Matt Millen was fired, finally, from his job of running the Detroit Lions into the ground, his wife decided to take a shot at the franchise that showed her husband more loyalty as any employer has ever shown any employee in human history….Here's what she said:

"We're fine," Millen's wife, Patty, told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. "In the world's view, this may look like failure. It's been a hard road, footballwise, but we've gotten a lot of eternal blessings. We'll move forward. I told him, 'You're out of football prison now' and we have a greater purpose."

Failure huh, Patty? How about an abortion, not to mention one big clusterfu**…Yeah, you forgot to mention that as well. Interesting, I didn’t know Detroit was known as "football prison"? Funny, I don’t remember it being that way before hubby arrived in town coming as they came off a 9-7 season. Not forgetting that they made the playoffs six of the nine years before that. So yeah, that "football prison" you want to make Detroit out to be, well, hate to tell you sweetie, but good ole hubby built that prison from the ground up. And by the Lions firing your dumbass husband, that’s the first step in the demolition of the "prison". Since your husband's arrival, the Lions have never even been close to sniffng the playoffs. Hey Patsy, the reason why Big Matt’s tenure in Detroit looks like a failure, well, that’s real easy…Because f-ing was!

Surprisingly enough it wasn’t just Matt’s ball & chain coming to his rescure, actually it was bizarre to hear ESPN's Tony Kornheiser claim on Pardon the Interruption that Millen was qualified. Wait a minute…Who am I kidding, bizarre! I should consider the source of this hot air…

"I know him a long time," Kornheiser said. "I think he was qualified for his job. I think that his years of being a player, and his years of being on television, helped him evaluate personnel. I'm stunned by the totality of his failure because I like the guy a lot."

Dan Le Batard then proceeded to tell Kornheiser he's an idiot…
"You're sucking up to him because he's friends with you," Le Batard said. "Because you guys have always liked him and this is how he's gotten ahead. He should have never had that job." "How can you defend Matt Millen as being qualified for that position?"

Dan, that’s real easy…TK’s "qualified for that position" logic is the same exact logic ESPN used to put this clown in the Monday Night booth in the first place! So yes, it all makes perfect sense…Just like that freaking pythagorean theorem does!

And then ESPN’s Mark Schleretz brought some actual common sense to the table, echoing what the majority of us felt about the Millen Detroit debacle…

Schlereth prefaced his comments by saying he personally likes Millen. "He's a guy that I respect," Schlereth said. "A guy that I love." And then Schlereth put the key in the ignition and then began to back the bus over him after throwing him under it…For good reason of course!"It may be the worst personnel job in the history of the National Football League," Schlereth said. "He was horrible. Matt was -- I mean, it was absolute garbage."

"Garbage"…Wonder if that could be construed as "Failure"?

Now here’s where it gets interesting… Millen is fond of saying that people who criticize his tenure running the Detroit Lions don't understand the game of football. Is he going to say that about Schlereth as well? All Schlereth is, is, well, played in two Pro Bowls, won three Super Bowl rings and been around the game his entire life…That’s all! But yet does he understand football? The verdict is still out on that, as in O.J. staying out of the slammer for a double murder. I just know losing isn’t good…And when you lose very often, well, you’re failing! And when you’re making the wrong personnel moves every time you make a freaking personnel decision, well yeah, then, it can be interpreted as being garbage! Of course, I don’t understand football! But Patty sure seems to have a pulse for it!