For the Love of God....Play Drew Stanton!

Duante Culpepper? Are the Lions serious? Does this make absolutely no sense to anybody else? It’s nice that the Lions have realized that Dan Orlovsky (once considered potentially their quarterback of the future) sucks. It is not so nice that now they have decided that the best course of action for a franchise that is completely in rebuilding mode is to go after a washed-up 300-pound statue who left his last NFL gig after he couldn’t beat out Andrew Walter. Looking at this situation from a distance, one would think that the Lions must be desperate; they must have no other option at quarterback. Well, one would be wrong. In actuality, there is a second round pick who has spent the first 8 weeks of the season carving out a 4-inch deep ass groove on the Lions’ bench. I’m not saying that Drew Stanton is going to save the Lions’ season, but why not see what the guy can do? In my humble opinion, Stanton should have been in the lineup as soon as Dan-O started scoring points for the opposing team. I understand that playing Stanton is the equivalent of waving the white flag to the rest of the NFL (mercifully) and this is a hard pill for a fighter like Rod Marinelli to swallow, but this season is a lost cause. I appreciate that they guy works hard and wants to win, but he has entered coaching senility at this point. His press conferences are like presidential debates, no matter what questions the reporters ask, Marinelli just spews the same crap about “pounding the rock” and how great the team looks in practice. Of course they look good in practice, everybody looks good when they play the Lions! He is about one more loss away from pulling a Mike Singletary and dropping trow in a team meeting. By the way, can somebody please make sure that the 49ers hire Singletary full time? What he gives up in intelligence, he makes up for in sheer comedic genius. This dude makes Dennis Green look like Bill Belichick. His sound byte after the Niners loss last Sunday is already in the pantheon of ridiculously great coach speeches, and Singletary has only coached in one game! Can you imagine the hilarity that will ensure after a week of having Shaun Hill as his starting quarterback? Anyway, back to the Lions. Marinelli has stressed time and again that Stanton is not ready to be a starter in the NFL. Is anyone surprised? How many other Lions are ready to be starters in the NFL? By my calculations, Stanton fits right in! All jokes aside, the Lions need to figure out what they have in Drew Stanton. Based on Matt Millen’s past draft record, Stanton is probably not very good, but the Lions might as well confirm that suspicion. Who knows, maybe Stanton is the second coming of Randall Cunningham, rather than the second coming of Mike McMahon. Mr. Ford has to be curious, right?