Matt Millen to join NBC's Super Bowl XLIII coverage
NBC plans to announce Monday that former Lions president Matt Millen will participate in the network's Super Bowl coverage Feb. 1 - not as a member of the game booth featuring Al Michaels and John Madden but in some other capacity.
Millen was much more competent in his earlier life as a TV analyst than he was running the Detroit club.
Asked by Dan Patrick on NBC Saturday whether he would have fired himself from the Lions if he were making the decision, Millen said, "I would have, actually. Probably not this year until after the season. I think when you start having changeover in an organization it filters down into the locker room. That's tough to do. I thought that was a tough position for Rod Marinelli to be in. Rod's a stud. Rod's an outstanding football coach."
Millen also talked in the NBC studio about watching the Lions finish 0-16 after he left: "It was brutal. Obviously knowing everybody up there, knowing and understanding the details, watching it unfold, it was probably harder watching it from home than it was when you're up there. At least when you're up there, you have some interaction. At home, you're just sitting there, your wife just keeps beating on you. So it's tough."
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Matt Millen. Mike Milbury. Steve Phillips. Inept GMs can always get a job on television.
Matt Millen has zero credibility to analyze any NFL player.
What a HORRENDOUS choice.......Millen RUINED the Lions and pretty much everything he touched (football-wise) since he retired as a player......what possible credibility does this person have? why would any sports / football fan want to listen to anything that he ahas to say? If there was ever a time to mute the volume on the TV and find it on radio, it will be if this clown does play-by-play for any of these games....
What a HORRENDOUS choice.......Millen RUINED the Lions and pretty much everything he touched (football-wise) since he retired as a player......what possible credibility does this person have? why would any sports / football fan want to listen to anything that he ahas to say? If there was ever a time to mute the volume on the TV and find it on radio, it will be if this clown does play-by-play for any of these games....
If someone is qualified to stay in the business he is used to working in, he wouldn't need a TV gig to keep himself in the public eye. TV doesn't hire people based on qualifications because if they did they wouldn't get very many good people at all. TV isn't exactly a great job to have. Long days, unusual hours, always looking for gets and stories, worry about nonsense like ratings. Ever look at the hands of people sitting at newsdesks? The majority of them aren't wearing wedding rings. They haven't got lifes outside the studio and the job.
People forget, though, that Millen was a very good game analyst on Fox before he went to Detroit.
In the booth, he is better than many of the talking heads who are currently employed by CBS/Fox.
If Steve Philips continues to be a baseball analyst, then anyone can get a job talking about any sport. I saw Matt Millen on TV yesterday and I thought to myself, Matt Millen? Football Night in America is the best show on the self promoting, self important, smug NBC. Go figure...
Millen was indeed a good analyst. But, it is way too soon for him to be back on my TV discussing the NFL.
The man built an 0-16 NFL team. Why the heck should I listen to him? He has no credibility in my book right now. FNIA ia a mess.
TM1313 and Jim Clark,
You two do realize that Millen was a highly respected analyst at FOX prior? If not for Madden and Summerall, he would have most likely led the broadcast.
Steve Phillips is a rat and it amazes me how many chances that guy got and not to mention he got nowhere in the minors to even have a players perspective. Millen was a pro-bowler and has Super Bowl rings. He will bring a perspective that he always brought which was a player's perspective.
The only way to interpret Mr. Millen broadcasting the Super Bowl the very same season that the team he GM'd to the ONLY 0-16 in NFL history; CLASSLESS. There can be no greater example of Mr. Millen’s blank slate.
A person with any amount of dignity would obviously wait until next year when some of Detroit’s pain is gone before broadcasting. However, Millen’s lack of intelligence and integrity will shine bright for all to see during the Super Bowl. People in Detroit will justifiably hate him forever and now ALL of us will learn why, while we listen to his dull, addled ramblings.
For anyone thinking his analysis has any value: Please tell me why in 8 years as a GM, the team became progressively worse? It would have been better to take investing advice from Charles Ponzi.