Yet his former Bengals were/are a much better team than we Lion chumps. I am unable to understand fans of other teams that whine about how bad their teams are when their teams have been to super bowls and many more playoff games than we'z. The only team fans that have a right to whine are Lion and Browns fans, that's it. everybody else STFU and stop whining you haven't the slightest idea how tough it is. No, zip, none what so ever
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Lomas Brown let Scott Mitchell get hurt on purpose
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Yet his former Bengals were/are a much better team than we Lion chumps. I am unable to understand fans of other teams that whine about how bad their teams are when their teams have been to super bowls and many more playoff games than we'z. The only team fans that have a right to whine are Lion and Browns fans, that's it. everybody else STFU and stop whining you haven't the slightest idea how tough it is. No, zip, none what so ever
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He's on sportscenter now doing damage control. The damage is done as far as i'm concerned. Why the hell did he even bring this up?!? Too desperate to share some inside scoops like there wasn't gonna be any consequence for mentioning it. This watery eyed bastard didn't think they were gonna make a big deal out of it when they make a big deal out of EVERYTHIIIIING!?!?! Good grief.
Doesn't really matter if Mitchell was the biggest asshole this side of the Mississippi. You don't let a teammate get hurt. If Lomas had such a big problem with him, have a sit down with him and the coaches, voice your concern in another way. What he did is inexcusable.
Mitchell was never known as being a very "mobile" QB, but I still remember one road game when he had the football on a passing down, as it was 3rd and long, and he could not hand it off to Sanders, who was taking the play off on the sidelines. Scott evidently could not find an open receiver as they were all covered, so he ran...errr...jogged up to the LOS, and there were no defenders within 15 yards of him, (nor any Lions blockers, unfortunately). But instead of trying to make it to the first down marker, Mitchell just stood there and hesitated for what seemed like an eternity, then proceeded to fling the football into the turf ~20 yards downfield.
There was nothing but green grass and blue skies between him and the endzone ~45 yards away, or at least getting the first down untouched, and Scotty probably could have gained much more including maybe even running it in for a TD, (that is, IF he didn't run like a girl) as he could have easily made the first down even while before running/stepping OOB to his undefended right...what a fucking wuss he was. I kept yelling @ the TV: RUN YOU DAMNED STUPID SOB!!
Mitchell was exposed as the being the Lions weakest link on offense, early in the playoff game in '95, (which was the very game that noneother than Lomas Brown had infamously and publicly guaranteed would easily be a Lions win) when the Eagles DC's gameplan apparently was to have their defense primarily targeting and keying on Mitchell in the backfield while containing Sanders as much as possible. (Sanders wound up gaining merely 40 yards on only 10 carries) Mitchell was being constantly pressured, often hit and was also sacked twice, and as a result, he tossed 4 INTs (including one that was run back for a TD) before Fontes finally and mercifully yanked him out of the game less than halfway though the 3rd quarter.
Scotty then was shown with his back to the camera while wildly gesturing with his arms outspread and palms upward, on the Lions sideline facing Fontes, presumably asking WHY he was being removed and replaced by Don Majkowsi, when the score had just become a humiliating blowout @ 51-7 at that point. Although Majkowski managed to help make the final score (58-37) appear closer than the game actually was, he also tossed two INTS of his own, one that resulted in a TD in the 4th quarter.
There was nothing but green grass and blue skies between him and the endzone ~45 yards away, or at least getting the first down untouched, and Scotty probably could have gained much more including maybe even running it in for a TD, (that is, IF he didn't run like a girl) as he could have easily made the first down even while before running/stepping OOB to his undefended right...what a fucking wuss he was. I kept yelling @ the TV: RUN YOU DAMNED STUPID SOB!!
Mitchell was exposed as the being the Lions weakest link on offense, early in the playoff game in '95, (which was the very game that noneother than Lomas Brown had infamously and publicly guaranteed would easily be a Lions win) when the Eagles DC's gameplan apparently was to have their defense primarily targeting and keying on Mitchell in the backfield while containing Sanders as much as possible. (Sanders wound up gaining merely 40 yards on only 10 carries) Mitchell was being constantly pressured, often hit and was also sacked twice, and as a result, he tossed 4 INTs (including one that was run back for a TD) before Fontes finally and mercifully yanked him out of the game less than halfway though the 3rd quarter.
Scotty then was shown with his back to the camera while wildly gesturing with his arms outspread and palms upward, on the Lions sideline facing Fontes, presumably asking WHY he was being removed and replaced by Don Majkowsi, when the score had just become a humiliating blowout @ 51-7 at that point. Although Majkowski managed to help make the final score (58-37) appear closer than the game actually was, he also tossed two INTS of his own, one that resulted in a TD in the 4th quarter.
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ok for all the mitchell bashing-- didn't the Lions "lose" mitchell to free agency when another team offered more $. Not sure if my memory is good on this one. I think I remember that not being happy moment when announced. Yeesh, that was a while ago.
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update....lomas is now bitching out to save his job lol. sounded very confident when he said it the first time. what a fucking loser lol.
Former Detroit Lions offensive lineman Lomas Brown has apologized for recent comments he made about Scott Mitchell, claiming he regrets intentionally missing a block decades ago that resulted in the quarterback suffering an injury.
Brown, currently an NFL analyst for ESPN, admitted during a radio interview this past Friday that he allowed a defender to hit Mitchell because he was frustrated with the struggling quarterback when the two were Lions teammates in 1994.
"We were playing Green Bay in Milwaukee," Brown said on ESPN Radio's "SVP & Russillo" show. "We were getting beat 24-3 at the time, and (Mitchell) just stunk up the place, throwing interceptions, just everything. I looked at Kevin Glover, our All-Pro center, and I said, 'Glove, that is it.' I said, 'I'm getting him out of the game.'
"So I gave it the set out, but I got the gator arms on the guy at the last minute. He got around me. He hit Scott Mitchell. He did something to his finger. I don't know what he did to it, but he came out of the game. Dave Krieg came into the game. We ended up losing that game 27-24."
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For my 18-year career, they say you average probably about 1,000 plays or so per (season). So I know I've played well over 18,000 plays, excluding practice, in this league. It's one play out of the 18,000 that I regret.
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-- Lomas Brown on ESPN's "First Take"
Six days after the interview, Brown addressed his comments Thursday on ESPN's "First Take," emphasizing that missing the block was an act of frustration.
"I regret it happened," Brown said. "Did I regret it happened then? No, I didn't regret it happened then.
"For my 18-year career, they say you average probably about 1,000 plays or so per (season). So I know I've played well over 18,000 plays, excluding practice, in this league. It's one play out of the 18,000 that I regret."
Mitchell also has responded publicly since Brown's initial interview, expressing anger and astonishment at his former teammate's admission.
"I was floored by that revelation," Mitchell recently told USA Today Sports. "I had Lomas in my home. I fed him dinner. I gave him and other offensive linemen gifts. I'm dumbfounded that he would do such a thing. I mean, people get hurt playing this game. People have died playing football, and for him to allow someone to take a shot at a teammate, that's crazy."
Brown spent the first 11 seasons of his career with the Lions, starting in 163 games for Detroit from 1985 to 1995.
The play Brown referred to occurred Nov. 6, 1994, during Mitchell's first season with the Lions. Mitchell suffered a broken finger on his passing hand when Packers defensive end Sean Jones hit him on the play.
The Lions fell to 4-5 with the loss to the Packers that day but won five of their final seven games to make the playoffs.
"That was 1994, and I was extremely frustrated with the situation that was going on," Brown said Thursday. "I didn't try to get the guy hurt, but that's what ended up happening."
But Mitchell, who missed the rest of the 1994 season due to the injury, has publicly criticized Brown.
"That was my first year in Detroit, so Lomas barely knew me," Mitchell told USA Today. "If he had a problem with me, he could have come to me, man to man, and said so. ... To mess with someone's livelihood like that, to mess with their family and their health, that's reprehensible."
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Lomas Brown's admission that he intentionally missed a block so that teammate Scott Mitchell would get hit is as bad as it gets in professional team sports, writes Kevin Seifert. Blog
Mitchell also made similar comments during a recent interview on "The Dan Patrick Show" and has asserted that he doesn't intend to contact Brown to discuss the incident.
But Brown stated Thursday that he plans to reach out to Mitchell.
"I expected Scott to react that way," Brown said. "That's the way he should have reacted. I don't blame him for reacting that way. But Scott knows a lot of things that went on, too, in Detroit. ... If the shoe had been on the other foot, I probably would have reacted that way, too. I know I would have reacted that way, probably a little worse than that."
Mitchell also told USA Today that he was "hurt and upset" by the fashion in which Brown made the comments during the initial interview.
"How someone could do that to another person is inconceivable," Mitchell told the newspaper. "The amount of hatred you must have to do something like that and then brag about it."
Brown acknowledged Thursday that he should have taken a different approach.
"I'm not going to retract, I'm not going to sit here and make excuses," he said. "I know America is looking at me and they're like 'Wow!' but I'm not going to make excuses. ... The one thing I can say is I should have been more tactful at how I said that. That was wrong on my part. I should have humbly said that. It came off boastful, and I shouldn't have said it that way."
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Former Detroit Lions offensive lineman Lomas Brown has apologized for recent comments he made about Scott Mitchell, claiming he regrets intentionally missing a block decades ago that resulted in the quarterback suffering an injury.
Brown, currently an NFL analyst for ESPN, admitted during a radio interview this past Friday that he allowed a defender to hit Mitchell because he was frustrated with the struggling quarterback when the two were Lions teammates in 1994.
"We were playing Green Bay in Milwaukee," Brown said on ESPN Radio's "SVP & Russillo" show. "We were getting beat 24-3 at the time, and (Mitchell) just stunk up the place, throwing interceptions, just everything. I looked at Kevin Glover, our All-Pro center, and I said, 'Glove, that is it.' I said, 'I'm getting him out of the game.'
"So I gave it the set out, but I got the gator arms on the guy at the last minute. He got around me. He hit Scott Mitchell. He did something to his finger. I don't know what he did to it, but he came out of the game. Dave Krieg came into the game. We ended up losing that game 27-24."
“
For my 18-year career, they say you average probably about 1,000 plays or so per (season). So I know I've played well over 18,000 plays, excluding practice, in this league. It's one play out of the 18,000 that I regret.
”
-- Lomas Brown on ESPN's "First Take"
Six days after the interview, Brown addressed his comments Thursday on ESPN's "First Take," emphasizing that missing the block was an act of frustration.
"I regret it happened," Brown said. "Did I regret it happened then? No, I didn't regret it happened then.
"For my 18-year career, they say you average probably about 1,000 plays or so per (season). So I know I've played well over 18,000 plays, excluding practice, in this league. It's one play out of the 18,000 that I regret."
Mitchell also has responded publicly since Brown's initial interview, expressing anger and astonishment at his former teammate's admission.
"I was floored by that revelation," Mitchell recently told USA Today Sports. "I had Lomas in my home. I fed him dinner. I gave him and other offensive linemen gifts. I'm dumbfounded that he would do such a thing. I mean, people get hurt playing this game. People have died playing football, and for him to allow someone to take a shot at a teammate, that's crazy."
Brown spent the first 11 seasons of his career with the Lions, starting in 163 games for Detroit from 1985 to 1995.
The play Brown referred to occurred Nov. 6, 1994, during Mitchell's first season with the Lions. Mitchell suffered a broken finger on his passing hand when Packers defensive end Sean Jones hit him on the play.
The Lions fell to 4-5 with the loss to the Packers that day but won five of their final seven games to make the playoffs.
"That was 1994, and I was extremely frustrated with the situation that was going on," Brown said Thursday. "I didn't try to get the guy hurt, but that's what ended up happening."
But Mitchell, who missed the rest of the 1994 season due to the injury, has publicly criticized Brown.
"That was my first year in Detroit, so Lomas barely knew me," Mitchell told USA Today. "If he had a problem with me, he could have come to me, man to man, and said so. ... To mess with someone's livelihood like that, to mess with their family and their health, that's reprehensible."
More from ESPN.com
Lomas Brown's admission that he intentionally missed a block so that teammate Scott Mitchell would get hit is as bad as it gets in professional team sports, writes Kevin Seifert. Blog
Mitchell also made similar comments during a recent interview on "The Dan Patrick Show" and has asserted that he doesn't intend to contact Brown to discuss the incident.
But Brown stated Thursday that he plans to reach out to Mitchell.
"I expected Scott to react that way," Brown said. "That's the way he should have reacted. I don't blame him for reacting that way. But Scott knows a lot of things that went on, too, in Detroit. ... If the shoe had been on the other foot, I probably would have reacted that way, too. I know I would have reacted that way, probably a little worse than that."
Mitchell also told USA Today that he was "hurt and upset" by the fashion in which Brown made the comments during the initial interview.
"How someone could do that to another person is inconceivable," Mitchell told the newspaper. "The amount of hatred you must have to do something like that and then brag about it."
Brown acknowledged Thursday that he should have taken a different approach.
"I'm not going to retract, I'm not going to sit here and make excuses," he said. "I know America is looking at me and they're like 'Wow!' but I'm not going to make excuses. ... The one thing I can say is I should have been more tactful at how I said that. That was wrong on my part. I should have humbly said that. It came off boastful, and I shouldn't have said it that way."
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Whatever.. We won one playoff game in the 90's...They can both go fuck themselves for teasing us... Both should be thanking Barry for any money extra they both received for playing in Detroit under that idiot owner William clay Ford.. I could care less what either say 15+ years later...
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