OT: Joey Harrington: "With the exception of one or two guys in that locker room, the rest of them can go to hell.'
December 21st, 2015 at 6:18 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 6:21 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^
I can't help but think that [all Lions draft picks since 1957] is similar to Devin Gardner. Really could have been a good [all 24 positions on a football team] but his team and coaching ruined him.
December 21st, 2015 at 7:16 PM ^
I don't know, saying "could have been good" is a stretch for a LOT of the choices in the Millen era.
December 21st, 2015 at 7:23 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 7:40 PM ^
The end.
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December 21st, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
Lions would've been better off leaving Wayne Fontes as coach. Outside of the Gary Moeller tenure, Wayne's World was the best we've had since cars had fins.
December 21st, 2015 at 8:18 PM ^
with a playoff win.
December 21st, 2015 at 8:25 PM ^
Lol the Lions were so bad that they made the greatest RB in history quit football and lose his love of the game.
That's an exceptional level of bad.
December 21st, 2015 at 8:39 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 11:34 PM ^
no one put a defense in more 2nd and 13s than barry. he either went for 8 to house or negative three it was never like emmit behind that nasty dallas line or like riggins at just 8 per inevitable. never just hit a hole and take four to six. and he had lomas brown to run behind he wasn't plying on talentless defenses. he didn't toil on a bunch of crap teams- he had herman moore, brett perriman, johnny morton, chris speielman and benny blades whose brother caught a JNOV aquittal on a murder charge. miracle of miracles.
December 22nd, 2015 at 12:54 AM ^
So they had one good O-lineman? Johnnie Morton only played with Sanders for 2 years. Also, I was too young to remember all the players then, but Morton never played in a Pro Bowl apparently. Neither did Perriman. Spielman and Blades weren't blocking for Sanders. Seems most plays on the highlight reels show Sanders dodging guys in the backfield.
December 22nd, 2015 at 7:35 AM ^
#1 running back but a cancer to the team and organization. His contact antics every year/last minute reporting, and finally quitting just before the season began, leaving his team hanging.
I've never been able to understand the loyality Detroit has given him. I guess time heals all.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:21 PM ^
Basically blamed him for Mariucci, who was highly overrated IMO, getting fired. Considering Bly wasn't cut or traded after that, I assumed the whole team felt the same way.
Still can't believe I blew at least $500 on NFL Sunday Ticket watching him QB the Lions to loss after loss.
December 21st, 2015 at 11:57 PM ^
I don't care how good or bad Harrington was as a QB, but I had zero respect for Bly after he threw a teammate under the bus like that in public.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^
Harrington is like 95% of QBs drafted--incapable of being a NFL starter. The Lions are like the Browns--perpetually inept.
I still can't believe the clowns who own the Lions descend from Henry Ford.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:26 PM ^
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December 21st, 2015 at 6:49 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 6:31 PM ^
I still can't believe the clowns who own the Lions descend from Henry Ford.
Would it help to know that well into the 1930s Henry Ford was an open Nazi sympathizer, with direct correspondences with Hitler?
/godwin'd/
December 21st, 2015 at 6:43 PM ^
Made me wonder if there's some type of curse over the franchise because of it. Nothing else makes sense for their ineptitude.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:55 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 9:27 PM ^
You are right as the story goes that Henry Ford II thought his brother, William Clay Ford Sr., was nothing short of stupid and thus didn't want him working at Ford to screw things up. Turns out Hank the Deuce was CORRECT!!!
December 21st, 2015 at 7:17 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 8:24 PM ^
Inbreeding?
December 21st, 2015 at 11:07 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 6:25 PM ^
Wrong system for Joey. Would have been decent or even as good as Eric Kramer.
December 21st, 2015 at 9:45 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 6:26 PM ^
but Detroit beat the shit out of him. Calling him "Joey Blueskies" when he'd talk to the media. The fans, the media and the players just shit on that guy from day one. I can't say I really liked his game, but that poor guy was destroyed in Detroit. And yeah, he made bank, but he would have made money at numerous places. He was just drafted into the worst possible place.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:35 PM ^
They should've kept Batch, who you could still win games with in the NFL, and let Harrington learn on the bench. Instead, they rushed him onto the field before he was ready, and behind an awful offensive line.
December 21st, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^
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December 21st, 2015 at 7:07 PM ^
Harrington retired from the NFL before Batch.
I don't think Charlie was the long-term solution at QB, but he was good enough to get us a FG away from a playoff spot just two years earlier with an aging Herman Moore and zero running game.
December 21st, 2015 at 8:26 PM ^
after watching Vick and some guy named after Tom Landry try to play the QB position.
December 22nd, 2015 at 5:48 AM ^
Batch went the "Todd Collins" route and had a 14 year NFL career mostly as a backup. One of the best gigs ever. Joey Balls career was 6 years.
December 21st, 2015 at 7:08 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 8:25 PM ^
If Wayne Fontes was still coaching that team, Barry doesn't retire yet.
December 21st, 2015 at 9:12 PM ^
Bobby Ross didn't get it. He thought he could bully Barry and push him around. Barry basically said "F*** this, and F*** you" and left.
Ross was an idiot. You have one legitimate talent on your team and you run him off because you can't control your own ego.
December 21st, 2015 at 9:15 PM ^
For destroying the Lions.
I think Batch was one of his best draft choices, and he was a career backup.
December 21st, 2015 at 10:57 PM ^
DAMN IT
December 21st, 2015 at 6:47 PM ^
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December 21st, 2015 at 6:27 PM ^
Joey had plenty of chances to show his talent - bombed out of Miami and Atlanta as well. Not a pro footbal talent - the mediocre arm strength and his predisposition to check down 98 percent of the time may cut it against college defenses but he was exposed in the NFL.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:59 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 6:30 PM ^
Joey Harrington #3 jersey. I always really respected him and thought he got a raw deal because of how fucking horrendous the entire team was. I always thought he was better than the stats showed, but I guess we'll never know. Incredible guy though. When I still lived in the mitten, everyone had stories of him being a great guy.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^
Harrington wasn't a good QB and would not have been one if someone else drafted him. That's no sin. Most people can't handle the position which is what makes guys like Brady, Manning, and Brees so amazing. It's the toughest position to play in sports because it demands so much.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:32 PM ^
I always thought he was better than what he showed. That said, I'm not sure he was ever great. Maybe what we see from Kork Coupons right now is the best Harrington would've ever been anyway.
But, who cares? That was a million years ago. I wonder if Brady Quinn would've been better with more talent around him?
You can say that about the majority of NFL QBs.
December 21st, 2015 at 6:37 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^
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December 21st, 2015 at 6:39 PM ^
December 21st, 2015 at 6:42 PM ^
I am Joey Harrington
December 21st, 2015 at 6:44 PM ^