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Ex-Lions coach Mariucci rips Millen

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Former Lions coach Steve Mariucci made some comments about his future as a coach, the Packers without Brett Favre and, most interestingly, about Matt Millen and the Lions in Saturday's edition of the Marquette Mining Journal. "Matt Millen has changed 58 coaches already, and he's now finally changing players," Mariucci said. "Sure I've stayed in touch with some of them and some of the coaches, and on occasion Bill Ford Jr. -- I respect the heck out of Bill, he'll take that team over some day." Mariucci also mentioned that he doesn't want to move his wife and kids around much anymore and if he were to return to coaching, it would probably be somewhere on the West coast. "The right situation may never present itself again," Mariucci said, "because we've decided as a family not to move anymore. We are back in northern California in our home and we settled back in. I've moved my wife 18 times, and I don't want to move again, nor does she. Our home base is going to be in the Bay Area. It's that simple."

Detroit Free Press

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June 30, 2008  05:38 AM ET

watch out Lane Kiffen, he's hinting at your job!

June 30, 2008  05:44 AM ET

he said the right opprotunity not the suicide route in oakland.

June 30, 2008  05:57 AM ET

Oh he's got them pretty eyes. But...another hold onto the great Walsh team creation of the 49ers. Go ahead and be a whiner.

June 30, 2008  06:30 AM ET

who couldn't or wouldn't rip Millen..

June 30, 2008  07:23 AM ET

I'd love to see a tell-all book about Matt Millen. This guy is a putz to nth degree.

June 30, 2008  08:15 AM ET

I can't see hime wanting to coach the Raiders. I can't seen any coach really wanting that job. Hell the coach they have now isn't even wanted by the owner anymore. Al Davis always goes with the players and never supports the coach. why would an experienced playoff coach really want to coach there? The only team as bad is maybe Washington.

June 30, 2008  08:18 AM ET

Mariucci was a SPINELESS coach. Unable to stand up to or for his players. The Niners' firing of George Seifert was the franchise's biggest mistake to date. Mariucci to the Raiders would be laughable.

June 30, 2008  08:22 AM ET

Millen is the only person besides post office employees and MVA workers were you can do a piss poor job for years and their is no accountability. Oh, I forgot PENNDOT sorry.

June 30, 2008  08:33 AM ET

Millen has to have some compromising photos of the Ford family.

June 30, 2008  08:38 AM ET

Mariucci, get your behind to the back of the "How in the heck does Matt Millen still have his job complaints" line!

June 30, 2008  08:43 AM ET

Mariucci is spineless because he wouldn't stand up for his players? I'm not sure if you're referring to his tenure with the 49ers or the Lions...but would any of his players on the Lions actually DESERVE to be stood up for?

June 30, 2008  09:09 AM ET

What qualifications does this little carrot think he has? Except for some winning with the 49ers, it's all been downhill. He could have done much more with the Lions except he's a self-centered idiot. Why would an owner even think of hiring this annoying little underachiever as coach of an NFL team? Because he lives in the Bay Area? What does he have, Bill Walsh-itis? He's a blathering ninny hammer.

June 30, 2008  09:28 AM ET

If this was his sending a resume then he deserves to be in purgatory in Oakland. If he signs a five year deal or so I say may this guy actually serve out the years no quiting or early outs. that would do it for me. I'd be happy knowing he has to actually look at Keith Richards...oops I mean AL Davis almost every day!!

June 30, 2008  09:36 AM ET

The Lions are an embarassement to Detroit! William Clay Ford is a bafoon!

June 30, 2008  09:36 AM ET

They call THAT ripping Millen? Fannation is goofy.

June 30, 2008  09:44 AM ET

Matt Millen is the worst GM in the NFL to continually keep his job.

June 30, 2008  09:56 AM ET

Matt Millen is a failure!!!
Mary Oochii -- spineless indeed and who says anyone want his arese to coah, he s a bad coach as bad as they come.

June 30, 2008  10:01 AM ET

The Marquette Mining Journal?

June 30, 2008  10:02 AM ET

The Lions are an embarassement to Detroit! !

stevekay
That in itself is a pretty tough trick

 
June 30, 2008  10:06 AM ET

They should be an outcry for Millen to go .... it is well known that an outcry involves more than 1000 fans which the Lions don't have.
Bring Wayne Fontes!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Portuguese Stallion!

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