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Matt Millen: 'I Stunk' at Being GM, John Elway Can Succeed
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsJohn Elway is following in Matt Millen's footsteps, taking over an NFL team with no prior experience in an NFL front office. Millen was an abject failure as GM of the Lions from 2001 to 2008. His drafts mostly turned out terribly, and his teams were constantly at the bottom of the NFL. The last of those teams, in 2008, became the first squad ever to go 0-16. Millen hopes Elway can succeed where he's failed. "I hope John does better than I did, because I stunk at it," he said. Elway does have a slight leg up on Millen in that he oversaw the Colorado Crush of the AFL, though that's a far cry ...
Dirty (Half) Dozen: The Coaching Carousel and the Rooney Rule
By Dave Goldberg - AOL NewsWhen Tom Cable, a little-known offensive line coach, was hired as coach of the Raiders to replace Lane Kiffin four games into the 2008 season, the hiring was viewed as just another bizarre Al Davis hiring, even more bizarre than hiring Kiffin, then 32 years old, the year before. When Davis fired Cable Tuesday night after going 8-8, the first non-losing season for Oakland since 2002, the reaction was the opposite. "I can't go through another head coach," Raiders punter Shane Lechler, who has been through six in his 11 seasons, told CSN Bay Area, calling the firing a huge setback for the team ...
Back Porch Photo of the Day: Ghost of Millen Too Strong for Suh
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsWe provide the picture, you provide the 1,000 words. It's the Back Porch Photo of the Day. That's the Lions 2010 first-round pick DT Ndamukong Suh attempting an extra point. Your initial reaction -- "Yep, that sounds about like the Lions" -- would actually be misguided in this instance. Sure, the organization is marred in historical haplessness and it's pretty much all Matt Millen's fault. But second-year head coach Jim Schwartz has changed the perception in Detroit that winning is bad, Matt Stafford is a legit NFL quarterback (if he can stay healthy), and Suh is already an anchor on the ...
Lions Release Daniel Bullocks, Complete Dumping of 2002-06 Draft Picks
By Chris Burke - AOL NewsDaniel Bullocks was let go by the Lions Thursday, putting the final stamp on arguably the worst five-year draft run in NFL history. His release means that exactly zero of the 38 draft picks made by ex-Lions president Matt Millen between 2002 and 2006 remain on the current Detroit roster, a fact pointed out by MLive's Tom Kowalski. Bullocks, 27, had a solid rookie season in 2006 after being selected in the second round out of Nebraska. But he blew out his knee in the 2007 preseason, then suffered a setback prior to the 2009 season and still hasn't returned to 100 percent. In the meantime, ...
Video: Matt Millen Apologizes for Remarks During NFL Draft
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsThere are many benefits to skipping ESPN's NFL Draft coverage, most of which have to do with avoiding the inevitable Mel Kiper-Todd McShay catfights, not to mention that NFL Network's Mike Mayock (even the version where he can't speak) and Corey Chavous know more about the players than anyone not in an NFL war room. Even if you were still on the fence about which telecast to watch, there was this: Matt Millen was on ESPN's set. And it was every bit the 25-car pileup you've come to expect from him. After turning the conversation to fried bologna sandwiches (?) during Saturday's coverage, ...
Matt Millen Apologizes After Calling Ron Jaworski a 'Polack'
By Milton Kent - AOL NewsTake a situation where there are hours upon hours of live television time to fill and add in a collection of people not terribly comfortable outside the realm of discussing 40-yard dash times and you have a formula destined to produce an awkward moment. Like, for instance, the one ESPN analyst Matt Millen found himself in Saturday afternoon during coverage of the later rounds of the NFL draft. During a lull in the proceedings, Millen, the former general manager of the Detroit Lions, was engaged in an on-air conversation with Monday Night Football analyst Ron Jaworski. For some reason, the ...
NFL Won't Miss Salary Cap This Year, but Will Long Term
By JJ Cooper - AOL NewsFor nearly 20 years the salary cap has been as much a part of the NFL's success as mega TV-deals and franchise quarterbacks. Now it's just about gone, and depending on which side you listen to, there is a chance that it will never return. In the short term, that's not a big deal. But if you look at the long-term implications, it could be pretty disastrous for the league. No salary cap doesn't necessarily mean that Daniel Snyder will spend the Redskins to a string of Super Bowl titles. But it does upend the parity that has been the foundation of the league ever since Pete Rozelle was a young ...
Matthew Stafford Talks About the Lions Past ... and Brighter Future
By Will Brinson - AOL NewsWill Brinson is in Miami blogging the Super Bowl. Follow him on Twitter. During Week 11 of the 2009 season, Matthew Stafford led an amazing comeback against the Cleveland Browns en route to the all-time NFL single-game record for passing yards and touchdowns by a rookie. Unfortunately, it was time the Detroit Lions would win in '09. On the bright side, it was Stafford's first year in the league and he has developing weapons in Calvin Johnson and Brandon Pettigrew, along with a team that is still recovering from the horror that was the Matt Millen era. Thanks to the good folks at Axe, ...
NFL Standings for the Decade: Colts, Patriots Are the Best, Lions Are Clearly the Worst
By JJ Cooper - AOL NewsA couple of weeks ago, the Colts execs mystifyingly tried to explain that 16-0 wasn't really that important a record, but they were quite proud of their 115 regular season wins in a decade--the most in the history of the NFL. Setting the wins record for a decade isn't much of a case for swiping the team of the decade award away from the Patriots (who have three less regular season wins but two more Super Bowl titles with both in contention for this year's Super Bowl), but it is a pretty impressive feat. And it got me to thinking. While we all know that the Patriots and the Colts were the ...
Matt Millen Doesn't Know the Rules
By Matt Snyder - AOL NewsMatt Millen was a great football player. I remember watching him when I was a child, and he was a ferocious linebacker. Of course, since then, things haven't gone well. He was one of the worst front office people in the history of football, crippling the poor Detroit Lions for years. Now he's working as a color commentator for NFL Network. I've often -- when writing The Zebra Report -- cautioned against taking the announcers' word as the law when it comes to interpreting rules. Thursday night's game between the Browns and Steelers would be a perfect example of why. In case you didn't see it ...
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