Oh, if there was any doubt whatsoever

[Parzival]

That Mike Williams (WR, former first round draft pick) was going to get booted off the Lions, it was solidified today.

How'd the walk-out demanding Millen's firing go, BTW?
Every time I tuned to the game, the network was studiously avoiding shots of the crowd. <shrug> Which considering how often those are normally shown, is a good indicator that it was probably huge.

Houston's looking like they might be a contender next year.
They still obviously need a left guard and a dominant DT, but those are about their only major weaknesses. But they really aren't going to lose anybody, and they have cap space to address at least one of those through free agency. And the other one through the draft.

[carmachu]

That Mike Williams (WR, former first round draft pick) was going to get booted off the Lions, it was solidified today.

How'd the walk-out demanding Millen's firing go, BTW?
Every time I tuned to the game, the network was studiously avoiding shots of the crowd. <shrug> Which considering how often those are normally shown, is a good indicator that it was probably huge.



Can you expand and explain those two? For us that dont follow football THAT well?

[Parzival]

Mike Williams has been in hot water over his work ethic (or lack thereof). So much so, that the back-up QB has been on the field as the third WR instead of him.
He dropped several passes over the course of the game.
Including one in the endzone on the final play of the game. If he'd have caught it, the Lions would have upset the Bears. It should be in the highlight reel. It was a *beautiful* play (Kitna keeping the play alive and firing a strike, Williams beating his man), right up until the ball bounced off his hands.

Matt Millen is the general manager of the Lions. His record with selecting personnel hasn't been all that good. He's had a number of top-five first round picks, and only one of them has at all panned out.
The Lions fans are a bit irritated with him. They were going to stage a walk-out during the game demanding he be replaced.

[Detritus]

Sounds like there weren't that many people who participated in the walkout. Somewhere around 100 is what I've read.

[Wook]

No matter. Millen needs to be dragged to Toledo behind an F-350 damnit. I don't think it's possible to do a worse job of managing a football team than he did to my boyz in the last several years.

[Detritus]

Millen says he's not quitting. It's up to the owners to fire him, now. It sounds like there is a decent chance that that won't happen this season.

[Wook]

Millen says he's not quitting. It's up to the owners to fire him, now. It sounds like there is a decent chance that that won't happen this season.

Yeah Ford is stupidly conservative when it comes to his management of the Lions. Think about it. He had Barry Sanders for how many years and couldn't get to the superbowl? When one of the 2-3 best backs in the history of the game can't get to the big dance we have a problem here.

[Starhawk]

Barry Sanders + no salary cap .... madness, i say.