Third installment of Dumb and Dumber resides in Detroit
The annual meetings in Florida always reveals something mind boggling to the media. As it turns out that this years team is the Detroit Lions, and the news is not good at all for Lion fans.
Everyone in Detroit knows that general manager Matt Millen is a complete dunce when it comes to being a general manager. It has now been revealed that Millen found his side kick in head coach Rod Marenelli.
Marenelli revealed monday the major needs of the Lions, which are defensive end, linebacker, offensive tackle and running back.
“I felt, the first two years, there were so many in a day, I didn’t get a good feel for these guys,” Marinelli said. “When you bring in seven or eight a day, I don’t do as good a job for myself.”
It is not a big thing to reveal the needs of the team, because by now people have figured out what each teams needs are. Plus, you can change the rounds in which you will be addressing the need.
However, it is completely different to reveal that you are cutting down on the number of players you are briging in to get a feel for the ones that you like. This way you can be comfortable with the player you are taking, even if other are thinking you are taking him too high.
The main problem with this is now other teams know who the Lions like, and if there is another team behind them in the same round that wants the same guy in that round, will make a trade a jump before the Lions to take the player.
It is stupid to say such a thing to the media. Also, it is stupid to limit yourself to certain players, because your not always going to get what you want, and you have to have a backup plan. With what they Marenelli stated they sound that they do not have one.
In the end their stupidity will cost them their job, but only when Bill Ford Jr. takes them helm. Thanks to him not commenting on how Millen has done everybody now knows that Ford Jr. does not like Millen.