Quote Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief View Post
After three weeks, I'm ready to say it:

I will not believe in the Lions until Matt Millen is fired (Or consumed by actual Lions avenging the offense to their namesake).
There are times when it is painful to be right... this isn't one of them. I remember fondly watching the Lions the year Charlie Batch took them to the playoffs with a solid, scrappy defense. Then a year or two later Matt Millen and Joey Harrington came to town, Batch got cut, and, well, the Lions are today still where they were that year. Nothing will %^$& up a team faster than a bad GM and dodgy ownership (I say that as a Raider's fan, so it's with sympathy rather than schadenfreude).

Detroit needs to clean house in the worst way. It's kinda sad too, 'cause Kitna is a halfway decent QB really and there are some guys on that team who would have a chance to shine somewhere else.

Don't you worry about the Patriots, they're going to be just fine. They got pasted today by a team playing for pride who had the first reliable film on Cassel's weaknesses. Cassel will improve his deep game and this team will wind up in the playoffs again.

The start of the season has been an underdog festival, but I like that. It usually makes the playoff races more interesting later on, as the good teams start to try to make up the ground they lost early. The NFC east is strong, but the Eagles are piling up injuries again. Have to wonder if they're going to hold out long enough to make that second wildcard spot.