Matt Millen To ESPN
ESPN, NFL April 19th. 2009, 1:30pm
Yesterday, in the midst of a banner day at Deadspin, AJ took time out from his usual weekend activities to report that Matt Millen will fill the vacancy left by Emmitt Smith on Monday Night Countdown. Why would they want someone who most recently ran Ty Duffy’s favorite football franchise into the ground? Who knows, but they do.
Millen’s stint with the Lions was memorable if nothing else. Detroit won’t soon forget.
Millen did a decent job on NBC last year after his time with the Lions was done. It’s always fascinating when people seem so knowledgeable, yet, aren’t. You need to be able to apply that knowledge to the real world. I guess as long as Millen isn’t in charge of anything he’ll be fine.
[Deadspin, PFT]
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April 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Matt Millen will fill the vacancy left by Emmitt Smith on Monday Night Countdown.
When did Matt Millen play for the Cowboys? I thought that was a mandatory requirement to be an ESPN football analyst
April 19th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
CRM, before his work with the Lions, you remember that Millen was a play-by-play guy at CBS right? As I remember he was above average as a play-by-play guy.
Shortly after the move to the Lions everything went downhill and Millen was exposed as a poor sports manager. Furthermore in this overdue age of blogs and the internet to expose all the crap like we were fed by ivory tower types in Manhattan for too long, and like many media types before the mass (not just techie so shutup you dudes out there) use of Youtube ~2005, Millen is exposed as not a good studio analyst like most of his peers anymore if not always before too.
Millen will probably suck on MNF Countdown, which already sucks major ass anyway as does the whole MNF operation on ESPN, but he would be good again as a play-by-play guy on Fox or CBS. For now work is work.
April 19th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
steve phillips,matt millen. now they need to revive bill wirtz to be a hockey analyst to complete the trifecta of people who are being payed to give their opinion on something they were horrible at.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
The rest of the PFT story was interesting too. Especially the part where they mention that Mr. Mackey (John Clayton) may be out because they are presumably grooming Schefter to replace Mort.
April 19th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Wow, an ESPN move that makes sense. Nah, it won’t happen.
April 19th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
that had to even out that schefter signing i guess.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
They let Ditka talk, after the shit he put the Saints through. Why not Millen?