Is Matt Millen the single DUMBEST General Manager of the NFL of all time?

Question

He just said he aint quittin.
Meanwhile, the Lions beat the Cowboys, and cost themselves the #1 draft pick. Despite all the stupid moves he's done, i wouldve told the team to throw that game away.

Answer 1

matt millen is the biggest idiot in nfl history. Tell me who else has drafted three wide receivers in the first round in three straight years and had any success what so ever. What makes it even worse is that the owner of the lions does the relies that he is so stupid. The best draft pick that he ever had to be Ernie Sims and he is even not that good either

Answer 2

Hard to say he is the Dumbest, however, he does have the worst winning percentage in the NFL since he took over. He has botched several high picks already such as Joey "ballgame" and Charles "dope a rope" Rodgers. However, the owner Ford, tends to wait a long time to make any kind of move (like decades).
However, the team seemed to be a little better this year, they were competitive in almost all their games. Roy Williams is a star and even Mike "lazyboy" Williams started making plays at the end. Sims might be the defensive rookie of the year and Kitna passed for over 4000 yards.
So as of now, he might be the worst GM in the league, but just like Ford always says, ' let's give um another year', hey, it worked for Wayne Fontes...

Answer 3

First of all regardless of his talents, telling them to throw the game im pretty sure is illegal if he gets caught, and secondly, yes he is the dumbest GM ever, and the owner is obviously a blindly loyal man, which there are worse things you can be, but its still time for him to go, I suppose you can give him the chance to make up for the bad drafts with a good one this year, after all, who could have predicted all the top receivers he drafted besides williams would turn out to be busts?

However, I think hes just gonna bomb the draft this year. Kudos to Ford for being loyal and sticking to his guns but come on...give it up

and Finally to "DungDung" while I highly question the choice of name, I think it proves my feeling that you need to grow up, please do, you have mis interpreted my answer and are still making a big deal out of it. Go learn english and read my answer again.

Answer 4

I would say he's gotta be up there. Along with the GM that let Ditka trade away the Saints entire 1998, and most of their 1999 (i believe) draft so they could get Ricky Williams.

Answer 5

Short answer YES... If any of us sucked at our job, turned in a poor work record, and had a history of bad decisions EACH of us would be fired. Not Matty Boy, he gets to keep his job. That being said, I think the Lions are the DUMBEST team around to keep him employed.

Answer 6

Is he the worst of all time? He is the worst in recent history, but I don't think he is the worst of all time.

The worst team in the league The (1983-1995) Tampa Bay Buccanears.

Doug Williams was the lowest-paid starting quarterback in the NFL during the 1982 season, and his salary of $120,000 was less than several backups. At the end of the season, Williams asked for a raise to $600,000 per season--a reasonable sum at that time, given Williams' past performance and his market value. However, Culverhouse would not offer more than $400,000 despite McKay's protests. Feeling that Culverhouse was unwilling to pay him a salary befitting his status as an NFL starter, Williams bolted to the USFL, where he played two seasons for the Oklahoma Outlaws. Without Williams, the Bucs appeared to be a rudderless team. They started the next season by losing their first nine games, knocking them out of playoff contention. They finished with a 2-14 record, the first of an NFL-record 12 straight seasons with 10 or more losses. Many Bucs fans blamed Williams' departure for this seemingly endless streak of futility, and the fact that Williams later returned to the NFL and led the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII only deepened the frustration among Bucs fans.

It can be argued that the team's lengthy woes were primarily due to how Culverhouse ran the organization. Culverhouse kept the team's payroll among the lowest in the league, which prompted few quality players to sign with the team. The ones who did rarely stayed long. Selmon, the Bucs' first draft pick in 1976 and the only Hall of Famer to have earned his credentials primarily in Tampa Bay, was the only real star who had a long tenure with the team. The Bucs also made several missteps in the NFL Draft, the most notorious of which was the team's selection of Bo Jackson as the #1 overall pick when he openly stated he would never play for them. The Bucs also frequently traded or gave up on quality players who went on to greater success on other teams. The most notable examples are all quarterbacks: Williams; Steve Young, who was traded to the San Francisco 49ers after only 19 games as a Buc, only to become a Super Bowl MVP and Hall of Famer with San Francisco; and Vinny Testaverde, the first overall pick of the 1987 draft whom the Bucs let walk to the Cleveland Browns via free agency in 1992.

The front-office woes affected the team regardless of who was brought in to coach. After McKay stepped down at the end of the 1984 season, Leeman Bennett, who had coached the Atlanta Falcons to their first-ever playoff win, was hired. After two disastrous 2-14 seasons, he was replaced by former New York Giants and University of Alabama head coach Ray Perkins. Perkins brought back much-needed discipline and "three-a-day" practices, but it proved too much of a good thing. The team was so physically drained by game day that the losses continued to pile up, and Perkins was fired before the end of the 1990 season. Offensive coordinator Richard Williamson was elevated to head coach, and after his brief success in the final remaining games, he retained his head coaching position for the following year. The momentum didn't last, however, and was fired after the 1991 season.

It wasn't until the hiring of Sam Wyche that Bucs fans had reason for optimism. Wyche had coached the Cincinnati Bengals to a Super Bowl appearance, one which the team could have won if not for a fourth quarter comeback engineered by 49ers QB Joe Montana. Unfortunately, Wyche did not have immediate success in Tampa, and even his bold "five-dash-two" (indicating five wins and two losses) declaration in his final season with the Bucs proved premature. However, Wyche deserves credit for drafting three key players who would later prove to be the core of the team's renewed success on defense--Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks and John Lynch.

Things only really began to change, however, after Culverhouse died of lung cancer in 1994.

Answer 7

I bet they draft Calvin Johnson with the #2 pick hahaha.

Answer 8

Oh by gosh...Adam put a good answer up...not some crying, whining, excuse why Michigan lost to USC.

I agree with Adam on this one...well said.

Geeze Adam, what more do you want? I said I agree with you. Obviously my English far exceeds yours because of the many comments you've placed that don't make any sense.

Grow up you say? Boy you walked right into this one...

...I'm not the one CRYING....Michigan fan.

Answer 9

yes,but it shows how much more idiotic the Lions are.

Answer 10

he is the worst gm of all nfl time, the worst. worst still, is the person who is letting him keep his job!