I'll listen to Matt Millen. I'm sure he could spend hours talking about his Super Bowl rings, games in Honolulu, etc.

I can't trust him with my organization. But I can trust his opinions of what it's like on the field. He was a heckuva linebacker...

Are there no consequences for abject failure? How can NBC give this person a platform?

I saw Millen's appearance. He was personable, contrite and did not try to pass the buck, which I appreciated.

Having said that, I can not take him seriously as an analyst at this point. Three, four years down the line, after memories of his disastrous tenure in Detroit have faded a bit, possibly. Now, however, no.

A disclaimer: I am not one of the people who has suffered through the mess in Detroit. Millen certainly bears a large part of the responsibility, and he'll be the Bill Buckner of Motor City for years to come. That being said, I used to enjoy him as a broadcaster on CBS. I wish him the best.

Matt Millen is an excellent choice as an analyst IF the topic is how not to run an NFL franchise. He has a depth and diversity of expertise on that topic, including how to waste a draft choice, ineffectively deal with the media and how to hire bad personnel. Since those are not the topics, count me out of the people who would support him as a choice. He was a great player, but great players do not always translate into great analysts. I wonder if I can file a cause of action for emotional stress now that I have post-traumatic stress disorder having to watch him on TV again.

I started to watch the postgame show this evening and saw "him." I turned it off. Why on Earth would the NFL or NBC contract this moron who absolutely ruined a NFL franchise? I wouldn't let him pick up my garbage can twice a week. Shame on whoever hired him.

Gimme a break. He hasn't had an ounce of credibility since the '80s, when he played on an over-talented Raiders team and he was a role player at best. He's a bum and has as much football sense as as Oprah. He's a great big loser and had complete control over a franchise that went from horrible to obscene. Andrea Kraemer could've done a better job as GM of the Lions. Please spare us another washed up old old ex-player and give us someone who at least played the game or was significant in the millenium.

He may have been a heckuva player and he was obviously a horrendous GM, but those are both besides the point, because as we all remember, or should remember, HE WAS A TERRIBLE BROADCASTER before the Lions debacle. He was annoying, arrogant and not particularly bright. I remember cheering when he got the Lions job because it meant we didnt have to listen to him anymore. NBC is seriously messing up -- course, then again, apart from Al Michaels, football announcing on TV is at an all-time low. Millen probably isn't any worse then Baldinger (who maybe THE worst announcer EVER) or half-dozen other clowns who currently have jobs anouncing. But all the same, they should try to find SOMEONE better......

Ray,

While Millen might not be the guy that you'd want to hire to run an NFL team, there's two points that I want to make.

1). What Mike mentioned above; Millen did win a few Super Bowls as a player, so it's not like he's clueless.

2). Why would he lose credibility as an announcer? When Bob Costas makes a comment, does that fact that he hasn't won anything in the pros (let alone merely played in the pros) lessen his credibility? At this point, they're all media and Millen is relatively credible compared to many folks out there (the ones that did NOT play/coach/GM in the NFL).

Why stop at Millen? Lets have Al Davis do sideline reporting, Mike Brown do post-game interviews. How Millen can have the nerve to be involved in anything involving football considering the utter disgrace he has been since becoming the HIGHEST PAID GM in NFL HISTORY!!!

Honor him as the player he was, But please keep him out of playoff network TV. Have him start as a Linebacker coach for a high school team in Detroit. This is where he should have started in the first place.

i don't wanna hear Millen. He's an idiot. He got 50 million to put the worst team ever on the field. It is an insult to fans to call him an expert. Football fans agree the Lions were terrible because of him. He should just go away

Millen was a terrible GM, look at the record, but that would not be any reason for me not to listen to him. However, his absolute lack of any talent in the booth would, and he stunk the place up even knowing what he was talking about. Very hard to listen to someone with no speaking skills!

He might have been a player, but I can't listen and believe anything that comes from a guy who runs a team into the ground and only accepts blame (to a degree) when he's trying to get back into broadcasting. I'd rather listen to non-players who have a better understanding of what a team needs to do to be successful.

Despite what happened in Detroit Millen has been in the NFL for a long time as a player, broadcaster and GM. He was good at the first two while the GM thing -- not so much. He knows football. As bad as the Lions are, they could beat several teams in the NFL right now. One being Cleveland. If they had played the Browns, they would have blown them out. Detroit can score, Cleveland cannot as proven by the six game TD-less streak.

I'm not trying to defend Matt Millen, but people are acting like he never been a analyst before.

I must admit, I was a bit shocked to see Millen as an analyst. Reminds me of the Tom Petty song "Even the Losers." I have a bit of a hard time receiving my analysis from a man who was very culpable in the demise of a once-proud football organization.

He did a capable job of commentating and answering questions. People don't realize the pressure and pace of a live network broadcast. They need people who can think on their feet and speak clearly and concisely, on cue, and in restricted blocks of time. It ain't easy. Just watch ESPN and FOX's shows go off the tracks umpteen times an hour. And don't get me started on Cris Carter....

What were they thinking when they put Millen on the air as an analyst? This man has absolutely no credibility! He never got a draft right. He couldn't evaluate players talent. He couldn't hire a qualified coach. (He tried several over eight years.) He never had any vision or plan for the Lions. Now NBC expects fans to listen to him critique teams, coaches, players' abilities, etc., and to take his comments seriously? This has to be a bad joke being played on American football fans. His total incompetence as GM of the Lions has exposed his lack of knowledge of the game. Being a player does not make you an expert analyst.