Lions Victory

I should be happy. The Lions won yesterday. 13-10 over Cleveland. So why do i feel so damn empty and hopeless inside? I'll tell you why...Joey Harrington. I love him. He was a Heisman finalist. Remember the billboard they took out in Times Square that said "joey heisman"? remember all the hype he had? I remember when we drafted him it was like he was our messiah. A bright spot in the dark years that were Barry Sanders-less. And he was solid. But Mooch is determined to have the WC offense and Joey, never a really strong arm QB, just doesn't seem to fit in. Which shocks me. And Mooch will not change up his offense to flatter and help his QB. It's obvious he'd rather go down in flames. So Garcia gets the starting nod yesterday and we pull out with a win. And I watch Joe Harrington on the sidelines and my heart aches. I honestly think he's going to be a phenomenal QB someday...just not here in Detroit. We're going to let him go and in about 3 or 4 years we're going to see him playing in the SuperBowl. *sigh* And Jeff Garcia isn't the answer. I mean sure he's a Pro Bowler and he's a veteran and he KNOWS Mooch's WC offense like the back of his hand...but he's old. So even if the team rallies behind him like it appeared they did yesterday, we're still only gonna have him for a couple years before he just can't play anymore. And that's IF he stays healthy.

I honestly wonder about Joey's relationship with his teammates. Remember "Any Given Sunday"? When the line wouldn't protect their replacement QB cuz they didn't like him? I wonder if his teammates just didn't like him and as a result they weren't cohesive. Maybe they didn't like that a younger player was telling veterans in the league what to do. All conjecture on my part since I'm not privvy to any locker room discussion, but you really have to wonder... especially after yesterday's game. Garcia had so much time and his receivers actually ran the patterns like they were supposed to. And that shovel to Bryson in the 2nd half...brilliant! I could almost hear Bryson shouting to Garcia to give him the ball "I can get the 1st down throw it to me" And let us not forget about the rushing TD Garcia made.

I'm not gonna lie. Overall i wasn't that impressed with Garcia and I'm reserving any praise or disdain until next week when there will be more of Garcia to judge. There were things I liked about him and there were things I didn't. The clock was definitely mismanaged and we should have scored more. He overthrew and underthrew to his receivers and Kevin Jones wasn't that spectacular. Cory was back ,so that was also a factor I'm sure. Honestly I just have such a heavy heart today regarding Joey. He was a god when we drafted him. What the hell happened? Did we ruin him? Did he ruin us? Only way to know that is to give him to someone else...someone NOT running a WC offense ... and see what he can do. I mean he pulled it out for Oregon...he will do the same for someone else. Our coach just was set on a certain style and wouldn't change it for anything. Jim Mora Jr. tried that with Vick in ATL and it didn't work so he let his QB do what he does best. Too bad our coach wouldn't do the same.

On a slightly related topic...I watched the press conference with Jeff Garcia after the game....HE IS SO GAY! FLAMER! No wonder he played in San Francisco.