[CBFF] NNR: LOL - Lions

[Tom Shannon]

ProFootballTalk.com - LIONS CALLED OUT FOR ANNOUNCING
VISITS<http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/04/01/lions-called-out-for-announcing-visits/>

LIONS CALLED OUT FOR ANNOUNCING
VISITS<http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/04/01/lions-called-out-for-announcing-visits/>
Posted
by Mike Florio on April 1, 2008, 10:45 p.m.

In response to the recent announcement by Lions coach Rod
Marinelli<http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/03/31/marinelli-opens-up-on-draft-strategy/>of
the names of ten of the players who'll be visiting team headquarters
prior to the draft, a league source with extensive experience preparing for
and conducting drafts has shared the following opinion with us:

"Clearly, he's an idiot."

Though the media often pieces together, based on discussions with players
and/or agents, the names of guys who make visits to individual teams, it's
rare that teams blare that information to the world.

The fact that Marinelli did so in conjunction with a media discussion in
which also he declared the team's needs for the 2008 draft is almost unheard
of in the cloak-and-dagger world of the
NFL<http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/04/01/lions-called-out-for-announcing-visits/#>draft.

"He and Matt [Millen] are made for each other," the source said.

Then again, it's possible that it's all a ruse, and that the Lions are
bringing in the guys whom Marinelli said they're bringing in in order to
distract the rest of the league as to the guys in whom they're truly
interested.

But these are the Lions.  The team that has burned four top-ten picks on
wideouts since 2002.  They're not playin' dumb; they're plain dumb.