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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 Twitter Mailbag: Charles Rogers, Seahawks' and Cardinals' Defense
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsOur new NFL Twitter mailbag features reaction from readers to former Lions draft bust Charles Rogers saying he used to smoke marijuana every day, and follows that up with an X's and O's look at the defenses of the Seahawks and the Cardinals.Your questions and comments, and my responses, are below. emfleek: This explains why Charles Rogers was able to be such an elite superstar in the NFL. In the past, when people searched for explanations for why Rogers was such a bad player in the NFL after looking so promising at Michigan State, we usually heard that it was either his broken collarbones ...
Charles Rogers Smoked Pot Every Day, Got Hooked on Pain Pills With Lions
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsCharles Rogers, the former No. 2 overall NFL draft pick for the Detroit Lions whose career lasted just 15 games, says in a new interview that he smoked marijuana every day and got hooked on prescription pills when he was an NFL player. Asked by ESPN's Jemele Hill how often he used marijuana, Rogers said, "Regularly. Regularly. ... Yeah. I blew every day. I blew every day. You know, I was doing something wrong. You can't smoke in the league, so I was wrong."Video of the interview is after the jump. Rogers seems to suggest in the interview that prescription pills he took to deal with pain ...
Warrick Hoping for Another Shot at NFL
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsWhen talking about front-office futility, Matt Millen sets the pace. Mercifully for Lions fans, he's been relieved of his duties as the team's president and general manager, but his legacy lives on. His infatuation with using high-round draft picks on wide receivers might have been his biggest weakness, although that's certainly up for debate. Charles Rogers and Mike Williams are on the list of first-round wide receiver busts, but a name that's often overlooked -- and one that we can't blame on Millen -- is Peter Warrick, who the Bengals selected with the fourth-overall pick in 2001.He had ...
Request for Matt Millen: Please, Shut Up
By Chris Burke - AOL NewsWe found out just a couple of days ago that Matt Millen would join the NFL Network's Thursday Night Football broadcasts in 2009. And to that news, I, like most people, am fairly indifferent. Millen's no John Madden, but he's a decent enough football analyst, so that might work out fine. Millen isn't -- and doesn't deserve to be -- forever banned from football circles simply because of his 31-97 record as Detroit's general managerWhat he does deserve, though, is his, (pun-intended) Lions' share of the blame. So what I can't get on board with is Millen playing the role of the victim as he did in ...
Matt Millen Joins NFL Network's Thursday Night Broadcast Team
By Chris Burke - AOL NewsAnd the Matt Millen Redemption Tour rolls on.The former Lions general manager and team president, who had cornered the market on Detroit's hatred until Sidney Crosby sauntered along, will be the new analyst on the NFL Network's Thursday Night Football broadcasts. Millen will replace Cris Collinsworth -- John Madden's successor on Monday Night Football -- and will team with Bob Papa in the NFL Network booth.Millen was fired three weeks into the Lions' disastrous 2008 season -- leaving Detroit after posting a 31-97 overall record in his time thereMillen, a long-time color commentator prior to ...
Millen, Billick, Faulk and Theismann in Running for NFLN Booth Gig
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsJon Gruden is the new Tony Kornheiser. Just about everybody not working for NFL Network is cool with that. Mr. Tony the columnist and Pardon the Interruption co-host was nothing like Mr. Tony the third wheel in the Monday Night Football booth, and his departure -- whether on his own terms or otherwise -- is a welcome change. Before ESPN named Gruden to replace Kornheiser, NFL Network had similar plans: they wanted Chucky to move into Cris Collinsworth's seat (Cris graduated to Sunday Night Football after John Madden retired) and work alongside Bob Papa on the eight Thursday night games.Didn't ...
HausCast 23: MDS on Kornheiser, Gladwell and MMA
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsThe FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone. In Episode 23, FanHouse's Michael David Smith joins Will Brinson and Ryan Wilson to talk about Tony Kornheiser's departure from Monday Night Football. Jon Gruden now has the gig, but is it a one-year deal? And is there a chance that should Gruden return to coaching in 2010, Matt Millen is next in line? Good times. The conversation also touches on Malcolm Gladwell, who thinks the Lions had nothing to lose by featuring the no-huddle during their run to 0-16 last season, as well as the latest on Brett Favre. Naturally.MDS also ...
Malcolm Gladwell: Lions Should Have Run the No-Huddle
By Michael David Smith - AOL NewsOne of the maddening things about the Detroit Lions over the eight-year Matt Millen era -- and especially during their winless season in 2008 -- was that no matter how awful the team was, the coaches and front office seemed to feel certain that they were doing things the right way, and that they didn't need to change.Every time Millen addressed the media during his horrendous run as the team's president, reporters would pose him questions about ways that the Lions should change their approach, and Millen would, without fail, insist that he had the right plan for changing the team's fortunes, ...
Borrowing Criteria From a Slam Dunk Contest, Detroit Selects Its New Mayor
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyDetroit has a new mayor, and before you ask-- no, it's not Kwame Kilpatrick, serving via videoconference from jail. Instead it's former Detroit Pistons guard Dave Bing, who becomes the third man to serve the term won by Kilpatrick in 2006.From the Detroit Free Press... Dave Bing began his Detroit journey in 1966 as a beloved basketball player before ascending to businessman and booster and now, to mayor of America's 11th largest city.Bing's stunning victory by a 4-point margin in Tuesday's special mayoral election signaled the desire of Detroit voters to abandon the status quo of local ...
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