I wrote a brief blurb about the Lions' unceremonious dismissal of Steve Mariucci a while back, but I have more to say, so I'm going to do just that. I'm a little unorganized in my thoughts on this - there's so many angles to the whole story. Regardless, I still think Mariucci didn't deserve to be fired. Since I'm not organized on my thoughts, I'll just throw things out and see what sticks.

Matt Millen is 20-55 since joining the Lions. Mariucci is responsible for the last 15 of those wins, and he did it?in less time than it took the first 5 wins to happen.

Millen was against drafting Joey Harrington, but only did it after the insistence of the Ford family.

Mariucci's hands were tied last season in respect to playing Harrington - the Fords insisted on it.

Word is that Mariucci isn't a great coach when it comes to developing young players. When he took over in San Francisco, he had Young and Rice as leaders. After some of the vets left the 49ers, that was when things started to slip a bit. Maybe. Maybe it was the addition of T.O. that caused the strife in S.F. I hear he's not a great team player.

Speaking of T.O., I saw an article comparing Dre Bly and Owens. But there's a difference: Bly is right!

Jeff Garcia's only been around for a year, and he already can tell who the problem is.

Dick Jauron took over as coach, but can he keep it? Does he want to?

Notice Jauron's first move: naming Garcia the starter over Harrington.

Would you make Jauron the head coach? Does it matter if they win or lose at this point?

Why fire Mariucci now? What purpose does it serve? They aren't good enough to make the playoffs, so why not let Mariucci ride it out? Isn't this just one more example of Millen's incompitence?

Should I expect to get a cease and decist from the Lions over my bad mouthing of Millen? You know, the online way of throwing someone out of the stadium for voicing their displeasure with the front office?

If you throw a fan out for holding a sign that says Fire Millen, what should you do with Garcia, who works for you and called into question whether you should have a job or not?

Now that Mariucci is out and his reputation is tarnished, would it be beyond the realm of possibilities for him to join his good buddy Tom Izzo and go to work at Michigan State? A lot of MSU fans weren't at all happy with the way John L. Smith finished up the season with some of his playcalling. Competing with U of M is key for MSU, and having a big name NFL coach would definitely help recruiting. And before you say that?suggesting this is way out there, I agree. But, so was Mariucci coming to Detroit three years ago.

Ok. That's all for now.