Raider Report

I'm hoping Mike will thrive under Kiffin. Now, if we could just get LenDale straightened out...

see I told you wolf. He is to big and strong not to be a big time contribute in the league. Lets just hope Lendale White can show up to pratice and maybe mix in a sald once in a while.

damn trojanwire you basically wrote the same exact thing as me while I was typing my post.

I'm not a Raider fan but I will watch the games just to see how Kiffin's offense works in the NFL and how Mike WIlliams re-invents himself.

I still maintain that Mike Williams is the best USC receiver so far in the PC era. The dude was flat out unstopabble, caught everything thrown to him and would just destroy smaller CBs.

I never understood why Detroit buried him on the depth chart the way they did. If he's too big/slow for a receiver spot put him at TE like a Gates or Gonzales. You can't tell me that Mike Williams couldn't outrun a LB/S. I mean he ran his combine faster than Jarrett.

I think the inability to use BMW demonstrates the complete ineptitude of the current Detroit management and coaches. As a Lions fan since the Rodney Peete/Barry Sanders days, the current team is killing me. Hard to believe but Wayne Fontes was the best Lions coach in the last 10 - 15 years.

I live in detroit and I would say Bruce hit the nail right on the head.

The entire team/organization is a camp of retards, basically.

They are owned by the Ford family so they never have to worry about turning a profit..I mean what, they are going to run out of money? The Ford family runs it like a hobby and couldn't care less if they win or lose.

This attitude infects everyone else, coaching staff on down. And they don't know football at all, and hire all these dumb-ass coaches like Marty Mohrinweg and Mariucci, and couldn't draft well to save their lives. Usually about 2 of the 8 players the Lions draft actually make it in the NFL.

Then to top it off, they keep flip flopping their team philosophy around, from pro-style offense to "run and shoot" to "smash mouth football" back to "semi run and shoot" to pro style offense to "west coast offense" to "Mike Martz offense" to...

Matt Millen & co. never liked Mike Williams. They took him because the draft "experts" thought they should. They then proceeded to put him on the bench, which is where he stayed the whole time he was in Detroit. Of course Mike got frustrated by this, which earned him more criticism from the Detroit little brains who said he was "lazy" and all that..

He will do great in Oakland..

Moral of the story? If you are a college football player make sure you don't get drafted by Detroit Lions.

'66 - Billy Ford and his father do care. They have hired poorly at the GM position, but remain very loyal to the Staff - admittedly a fault of their own. Also "they are going to run out of money?" are you kidding? Do you realize the fiscal crisis the company is going through? Money is a very serious concern. They've pledged all their assets in order to survive.You live in Detroit? Get a clue. You're an embarrasement to the USC community with a post like this...if you went to SC

All is well with LenDale. http://www.rotoworld.com/content/playerpages/player_main.aspx?sport=NFL&id=3637

Ease up East Coast. Check out this week's Business Week and you'll see this fiscal crisis is a self inflicted wound. Mulally may lead the turnaround at the expense of auto worker jobs but I'm pretty sure the Ford family millions are safe. It's too bad William Clay Ford can't follow the lead of his son and fire himself and bring in an outsider to right this ship. Remaining loyal to staff when the staff has a track record like Millen is loyalty, it's stupidity.