link .......Lions owner William Clay Ford gave Millen a five-year contract extension last offseason after four miserable seasons. Ford allowed the former linebacker to fire coach Steve Mariucci after two-plus seasons. Mariucci was fired just after Thanksgiving. How does this guy keep his job?
Millen is so over his head in that job. I am convinced that he has something on the owner and is using blackmail to keep his job. It is the only logical explanation.
I was dying last night when the radio host said that Rasheed was joining in the chants and that fans were even bringing signs to Pistons games AT Charlotte. Wow, Detroit may be giving Philly a run for it's money...
The Pistons get great road support at their games and the last handful have all included at least one person with a Fire Millen sign or an audible (on tv) chant of Fire Millen throughout the arena. Good stuff. At home games, forgetaboutit. Even Rasheed Wallace contributed to the chant last home game.
Matt Millen is a prime example of why minorities criticize the NFL and their hiring practices. He gets a GM job with no experience, then he hires a friend as his first coach, he has set the franchise back and he still has a job. I remember when D. Sanders said he thought he could be a better head coach than Reeves in atlanta and everyone jumped on him talking about he had no idea of the work it takes to be a coach. but when this clown millen actually gets a gm job out of the booth there was very little criticism.
That's inspiring considering Reeves may be the next head coach of the Texans. I weep for the Texans future.
it truly is amazing how much criticism this guy doesn't get in the media. compare it to the criticism Isiah Thomas gets.
Detroit and NY are two totally different media markets. Almost everyone flys under the radar in Detroit. Before Isiah, Scott Layden was torn apart in the media on a daily basis.
Isiah has been torn apart in the media since he was at Indiana. they couldn't wait for him to lose that job.
we could argue back and forth on this but I don't think you honestly believe that Isiah isn't disliked in the media more than other execs. the media has never forgiven him for his comments on Bird and other things he did as a player. mora was defended by a lot of media members because he was the only coach N.O. was respectable under. He brought a lot of that ciriticism on himself for his nervous break downs in press conferences. "Playoffs" and "we couldn't do didly squat" will catch some heat for you.
Iiah, IMO, is disliked by the media because everything he has touched since retiring, has turned to crap. I think the media is amazed that this guy keeps getting jobs running teams, and so am I. Its pretty easy to dislike smug ***holes, and I think most would agree that Isiah is indeed one. That doesn't help him. Couple that with his GMing abilities and you might as well put a target on his back. And Isiah has brought alot of heat on himself for his abilities as a coach, GM, league owner, etc. Hes not above criticism.
First of all everything he has touched hasn't turned to crap. He had a very good foundation in Toronto until McGrady decided to bail. He wasn't a good coach in Indiana admitedly, but he inherited a bad situation in NY and I really don't understand what people expected him to do. He gets no credit for the brilliant move of not using the "Allan Houston" rule on Allan Houston. He gets no credit for a pretty good draft he had this year. Every article on him is negative, and considering he's arguably the greatest point guard ever its especially ridiculous. edit: and the reason his comments about bird were so damaging is because there was some truth in them. he was wrong to say he was would be just another player, but there was some "great white hope" to the hype around bird.
McGrady left 2 years after Isiah was gone. Good foundation? Stoudamire and Carter was as good as it got. They didn't expect him to make it worse. Yeah and the Curry trade and James signing almost negate that as it stands right now. Being arguably the greatest point guard every doesn't give him a free pass on his post playing career. edit: and the reason his comments about bird were so damaging is because there was some truth in them. he was wrong to say he was would be just another player, but there was some "great white hope" to the hype around bird.[/QUOTE]
exactly, and if McGrady would have stayed that would be a really good tandom. and that team almost made it to the Eastern Conference Finals. They didn't expect him to make it worse. statements like this are really ridiculous. Penny comes off the cap this season, Mo Taylor next. Antonio Davis also comes off this year, how did he make the situation worse? exactly, all that being said Millen has been one of the worst gm's in sports and he shouldn't have gotten his job to begin with.
