There is only one suitable outcome for the Lions 2008-2009 season, a perfect 0-16 season. We finally rid ourselves of our Ahab and the mutiny will only end rightly with the perfect storm. The defeated season sets the perfect backdrop to our quest for a winning season.
I want the 0-16 season so bad I can taste it. I want this disastrous, never-ending era to close with the worst season in NFL history with the Matt Millen era immortalized as the worst mismanagement in the history of sports. The worst team ever.
In doing so, the Lions are not just spraying Febreze in Millen's office to over up his lingering stink from his rotten ass and B.O. Jackson body odor, it razes the whole damn building erasing any acknowledgement that he was ever there.
Then we can finally move on. We already made what I think might have been the best personnel move in Lions history by trading Roy Williams for a bounty of draft picks. To get 3 drafts picks, including a #1 for a quality receiver is a lopsided trade in the Detroit's favor. If you haven't noticed, the Lions have a better one anyway and Williams had begun turning himself into a cancer for the Lions. The Lions do not need guys second guessing the game plan and making issues about play calling, formations, and targets. That trade begun the rebuild. And for once, I don't think we are talking about a Lion's annual rebuild, I mean a real rebuild from the ground up - one that is going to work.
The next step is the coaching decision. I think this time, we need a proven NFL coach. While it's too early to make any real predictions on availability, it's pretty uch a forgone conclusion that Marineeli will be gone. I cannot see how after the horrible job he did instilling that train wreck Tampa 2 defense, why he would return. I'd even be surprised if he lasts the rest of the season. While I do not normally support mid-season NFL coaching changes like the Lane Kiffin firing, in this case you might as well cut the cord and start moving forward. Obviously this season is over for the Lions, so you might as well make the coaching change and treat the rest of the season like practice. What's to lose.
I would not claim to really have an educated stance on the candidates, but I love the Bill Cowher suggestion that has been tossed around from time to time, particularly in the context of a coach and Gm package deal. We have seen enough bullshit attempts at high-falutin' West Coast offenses. Let's get a hard nosed program with a running game and a bad ass defense. Let's be serious, this is Big Ten country, with the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Minnesota Vikings. Who needs a spread offense, run and shoot, west coast, or whatever other name du jour you wanna slap on it. Let's get a real football team.
The other key ingredient, which needs to happen this year the selection of our franchise quarterback to lead the Detroit Lion's for the next 10 years. This is a one time decision and there will be no more Harringtons, Kitnas, Peetes, or Wares. We need the guy that every god damn sports fan in Michigan owns a jersey and the posters go on every kids' wall. I want Colt McCoy. I'm actually sitting in the Austin airport as I type this and I believe this is our guy. Call it a feeling. McCoy has more talent and leadership than I remember in a college player really ever. While they say he wants to stay in Austin for one more year and thay he may not have the arm strength to be a great NFL QB, I'll take the 80% completion rate and worry about adapting from there. We'll just have to wait and see come draft day if he is available. Plus, he has the greatest name for a gunslinger in the history of the game. I apologize to the state of Texas for taking your boy, but McCoy should be a Lion. We need him.
So, take pleasure in our pain one last time NFL fans, because this historic 0-16 disaster is all part of the plan. Mark my words; the end is here. As we sit and watch from the absolute trough of the curve, there is nowhere to go but up. The Lions as you know them will only exist for 8 more weeks, so let's all watch and laugh. And then get excited, because it's finally gonna end.Subscribe to us
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I want the 0-16 season so bad I can taste it. I want this disastrous, never-ending era to close with the worst season in NFL history with the Matt Millen era immortalized as the worst mismanagement in the history of sports. The worst team ever.
In doing so, the Lions are not just spraying Febreze in Millen's office to over up his lingering stink from his rotten ass and B.O. Jackson body odor, it razes the whole damn building erasing any acknowledgement that he was ever there.
Then we can finally move on. We already made what I think might have been the best personnel move in Lions history by trading Roy Williams for a bounty of draft picks. To get 3 drafts picks, including a #1 for a quality receiver is a lopsided trade in the Detroit's favor. If you haven't noticed, the Lions have a better one anyway and Williams had begun turning himself into a cancer for the Lions. The Lions do not need guys second guessing the game plan and making issues about play calling, formations, and targets. That trade begun the rebuild. And for once, I don't think we are talking about a Lion's annual rebuild, I mean a real rebuild from the ground up - one that is going to work.
The next step is the coaching decision. I think this time, we need a proven NFL coach. While it's too early to make any real predictions on availability, it's pretty uch a forgone conclusion that Marineeli will be gone. I cannot see how after the horrible job he did instilling that train wreck Tampa 2 defense, why he would return. I'd even be surprised if he lasts the rest of the season. While I do not normally support mid-season NFL coaching changes like the Lane Kiffin firing, in this case you might as well cut the cord and start moving forward. Obviously this season is over for the Lions, so you might as well make the coaching change and treat the rest of the season like practice. What's to lose.
I would not claim to really have an educated stance on the candidates, but I love the Bill Cowher suggestion that has been tossed around from time to time, particularly in the context of a coach and Gm package deal. We have seen enough bullshit attempts at high-falutin' West Coast offenses. Let's get a hard nosed program with a running game and a bad ass defense. Let's be serious, this is Big Ten country, with the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Minnesota Vikings. Who needs a spread offense, run and shoot, west coast, or whatever other name du jour you wanna slap on it. Let's get a real football team.
The other key ingredient, which needs to happen this year the selection of our franchise quarterback to lead the Detroit Lion's for the next 10 years. This is a one time decision and there will be no more Harringtons, Kitnas, Peetes, or Wares. We need the guy that every god damn sports fan in Michigan owns a jersey and the posters go on every kids' wall. I want Colt McCoy. I'm actually sitting in the Austin airport as I type this and I believe this is our guy. Call it a feeling. McCoy has more talent and leadership than I remember in a college player really ever. While they say he wants to stay in Austin for one more year and thay he may not have the arm strength to be a great NFL QB, I'll take the 80% completion rate and worry about adapting from there. We'll just have to wait and see come draft day if he is available. Plus, he has the greatest name for a gunslinger in the history of the game. I apologize to the state of Texas for taking your boy, but McCoy should be a Lion. We need him.
So, take pleasure in our pain one last time NFL fans, because this historic 0-16 disaster is all part of the plan. Mark my words; the end is here. As we sit and watch from the absolute trough of the curve, there is nowhere to go but up. The Lions as you know them will only exist for 8 more weeks, so let's all watch and laugh. And then get excited, because it's finally gonna end.Subscribe to us
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March 19, 2009
