OT - Lomas Brown purposely missed block to get Scott Mitchell hurt

It puts that into perspective I guess. Also underscores the Lion's inability to win...everybody was rowing their own boat.

Yea Lomas, Dave Krieg would have done a much better job.

Ugh, tomorrow's Festivus Airing of Grievances thread can't come soon enough so I can complain about the Lions.

And here I actually respected Lomas Brown for so many years. Seemed like the exact opposite guy to do this and I always said he was propbably the ONLY OL Barry Sanders didn't single handedly make an "all pro" or Pro Bowl OL. He went on for a bit after Barry, IIRC. Had a guard from PSU that bolted ASAP (Hartman?) that was good but Lomas was a good OL. This kind of makes me lose a ton of respect for him, lol.

I bet Mr. Brown gets the bill for Scott Mitchells bill for that finger injury

Scott Mitchell made my eyes bleed, but to do this is indefensible.  I met Lomas Brown when I went to a Lions camp as a kid.  To do this as a teammate is dirty.

I kind of expected this occurred at times, but there really is no reason to come out and say it. Brown was paid lots of money to defend the QB, regardless of who it was back there. To fail at his job, in such a malignant way, is infuriating. Leave the player management and depth chart to the coaches.

I knew Lomas for a couple years and he's an incredibly kind person. It surprises me that he would air this dirty laundry on ESPN. It sounds to me like this was justice served by the kangaroo court. Stuff like this happens a lot more than people think. Mitchell was a cocky QB who rubbed people the wrong way. This is the same guy who mocked his head coach with his Holloween costume. I'd be willing to bet Lomas got more than one wink and "atta boy" when they returned to the locker room.

Same old lions. The absolute joke of professional sports

In the past, I've always thought very highly of Lomas.  He was one of my favorite players, until now.  If this is true, it really changes my opinion of him.  I don't care how bad your QB is playing, or how much you may not like a teammate, but to intentionally miss a block in hopes that your teammate gets hurt???....to me, that is just the UNTHINKABLE.  That is the ultimate betrayal, and completely breaks any football code, whether unwritten or written.  Wow. 

This epitomizes the kind of culture that permeates the Lions.

Most dysfunctional and poorly-managed team in all of pro sports, hands down.

If you've ever listened to Lomas talk about Mitchell it's obvious he thinks the dude was awful! So this shouldn't come as a surprise that he'd admit to doing that!

Mitchell was totally irresponsible with the ball, I can't remember a game he played that didn't involve an interception! That and Lomas wasn't on his blindside so Mitchell again....idiot.

The inmates were running the asylum. If only someone could've let a free defender slip by into the booth where old man Ford was sitting...

It was wrong. Lomas shouldn't have done it.

But you know, I feel for him. I can imagine that he thinks he's doing it to make his team better. Which, arguably, he did. He probably rationalized it as he's just going to let himself make a play as bad as one of Mitchell's plays, and this time Scott would suffer the consequences.

So, yeah, he shouldn't have done it. But as a Lions fan, I sort of understand where he's coming from.

Yeah, Lomas is the type of guy I'd like in the foxhole next to me.  What a tool.  I obviously live in a fantasy world where teammates would do anything to protect each other and make each other better, but not Lomas.  Makes me sick.

Haven't you seen heaven can wait with warren beatty? The rams were brutal towards him. Or better yet, Paper Lion?

and now I like him even more. Scott Mitchell was hot garbage and deserved to get taken out

I don't know how often this happens but that fact that he is talking about it today with no remorse, shows you the kind of person he is.

Considering how celebrities and coaches are currently being held to a much higher standard of morality than the rest of us if they want to keep their jobs, I wouldn't be surprised if Brown got suspended or even fired.  

In his favor, though, ESPN is being run by part-timers and interns until the "big boys" come back on Wednesday.  If this could turn into a huge story on Monday with the "heavy hitters" in the media slamming him, he would at least get suspeneded.  Considering the current public attention span, everyone might have already forgotten it by Wednesday.

This was a stupid move, but great timing.

Some typical Lion fans on here that accept this crap. The owner and apparently some fans on here accept that piss poor attitude. The Lions don't play as a team. Until this losing attitude is gone we will never win. Pathetic and to say "I don't blame Lomas" is weak. Have some fuc#ing pride and win like your suppose to as a team. If fat ass Lomas wasn't taking plays off or skipping practices the kid could have developed. It is hard to improve when teammates won't practice and have a piss poor attitude.

The reaction to this is interesting to me, primarily because no one was upset about this when it happened. One of the things that always warms my heart as a Michigan fan is that we, in general, and unlike a lot of other fan bases, understand that the ends don't justify the means.

Wow, I've played with some QBs that I didn't exactly love, but come on it's your freaking job to protect him.