Mooch
Now to get my obvious disagreements out of the way, I am a Vikings fan. I have been for probably better than thirty years, and think Freddie Zamberletti is the best thing to ever happen to the NFL. This is a complete aside, but Fred Zamberletti has been the Minnesota Vikings team trainer since Day One and to the best of my knowledge still is. That's close to 45 years now, and while he doesn't have a number, his name belongs up there above the numbers the team has retired.
So, loyalties described, what the Detroit Lions did today is a travesty. Detroit, for years, has been a doormat. This is inexcusable in so many ways it isn't funny. For a decade, they had, HANDS DOWN, the best running back in the NFL. Barry Sanders is the only running back who I would consider better than Jim Brown. Others in the same category? Yes. Better? No. No one other than Barry.
Herman Moore? Outstanding. Top 10 receiver in the history of the league. Lomas Brown? Top five left tackle in the 90's. Robert Porcher? Top 10 defensive lineman. They HAD talent. I could go on and talk about Chris Spielman and Bennie Blades (sad story there). In any case, this was a team with some potential.
This evening, they fired Steve Mariucci as head coach. This was utterly wrong. They should have fired Matt Millen as GM and kept The Mooch. In the last four years, Detroit has drafted guys in skill position after skill position after skill position, and what they have to show for it is the best receiver corps I've seen, a great running back, a solid quarterback, and a pile of shit line that can't protect any inch of those draft picks.
Matt Millen should be out on his ass.
As a former linebacker, Millen is someone who should know this better than anyone. Games are won and lost in the trench. He has ignored the trench for his entire tenure. For those of you who know football, give me Dan Marino, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Cris Carter, Jerry Rice, and Kellen Winslow (Sr, not Jr) and without a line, I'll show you a team that can beat anyone around, and still can't pull together 7 wins. That by the way, is the best all around team I can make out of history.
The truth is, games are won and lost in the same place they have always been won and lost, on the line. When the Bears went 15-1 in 1985, they did it with the best offensive and defensive lines anyone had seen. The Giants teams were outstanding. The Cowboys (as much as I hate them), Giants, Redskins, Broncos, Packers, Bucs, and every other team you can name that went on to what is considered "greatness" all have one thing in common. They all have lines from hell.
Mooch got fired earlier because Matt Millen didn't give him the personel to be a great team and still expected that from him. There is a reason guys like Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson are Super Bowl winning quarterbacks. It isn't because they're great, it's because they had great lines infront of them.
hopefully, the Detroit owners will figure out their mistake, because if they don't, someone else is going to grab Mooch, and he's going to make Detroit pay for it for the next 20 years.
So, loyalties described, what the Detroit Lions did today is a travesty. Detroit, for years, has been a doormat. This is inexcusable in so many ways it isn't funny. For a decade, they had, HANDS DOWN, the best running back in the NFL. Barry Sanders is the only running back who I would consider better than Jim Brown. Others in the same category? Yes. Better? No. No one other than Barry.
Herman Moore? Outstanding. Top 10 receiver in the history of the league. Lomas Brown? Top five left tackle in the 90's. Robert Porcher? Top 10 defensive lineman. They HAD talent. I could go on and talk about Chris Spielman and Bennie Blades (sad story there). In any case, this was a team with some potential.
This evening, they fired Steve Mariucci as head coach. This was utterly wrong. They should have fired Matt Millen as GM and kept The Mooch. In the last four years, Detroit has drafted guys in skill position after skill position after skill position, and what they have to show for it is the best receiver corps I've seen, a great running back, a solid quarterback, and a pile of shit line that can't protect any inch of those draft picks.
Matt Millen should be out on his ass.
As a former linebacker, Millen is someone who should know this better than anyone. Games are won and lost in the trench. He has ignored the trench for his entire tenure. For those of you who know football, give me Dan Marino, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Cris Carter, Jerry Rice, and Kellen Winslow (Sr, not Jr) and without a line, I'll show you a team that can beat anyone around, and still can't pull together 7 wins. That by the way, is the best all around team I can make out of history.
The truth is, games are won and lost in the same place they have always been won and lost, on the line. When the Bears went 15-1 in 1985, they did it with the best offensive and defensive lines anyone had seen. The Giants teams were outstanding. The Cowboys (as much as I hate them), Giants, Redskins, Broncos, Packers, Bucs, and every other team you can name that went on to what is considered "greatness" all have one thing in common. They all have lines from hell.
Mooch got fired earlier because Matt Millen didn't give him the personel to be a great team and still expected that from him. There is a reason guys like Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson are Super Bowl winning quarterbacks. It isn't because they're great, it's because they had great lines infront of them.
hopefully, the Detroit owners will figure out their mistake, because if they don't, someone else is going to grab Mooch, and he's going to make Detroit pay for it for the next 20 years.
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