The two biggest villains of the past 10 years in Detroit have arguably been Matt Millen and Joey Harrington. They were synonymous with the Lions failure and helped make Detroit the laughing stock of the NFL. Harrington was the third pick and struggled to find any kind of success until eventually they dumped him in favor of Jon Kitna and sent him packing to Miami last season. Surprisingly enough their is one person coming to the defense of Joey Harrington and that person just so happens to be the best player on the Detroit Lions, Roy Williams. Roy came to the defense of Joey Harrington earlier this week and said that he thinks the system is why Harrington did not succeed in Detroit.
"I wish Joey could have stayed here and been in this offense and be able to refine his tools under coach Martz," Williams said.
"To me we were not short route guys," Williams said. "We didn't want to run the short route stuff. We wanted to run deep and I think that is what Joey wanted to do and I think that is what he was talking about being handcuffed."
So as a person that likes to read into things, lets say that Roy thinks that Matt Millen was either A) Stupid to draft Joey Harrington into a system he didn't fit or B) Matt Millen should have hired a coach to tailor the system to his first big time draft pick which he invested much of the franchise in. In other words Roy Williams thinks it's all Matt Millen's fault.
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