Prior to last season, John Kitna, the quarterback for the Lions, guaranteed that his team would win 10 games. Unfortunately, they fell short with an 8-8 record. But for the first eight weeks of the season it looked like anything was possible, starting 6-2. And anybody that can do math will be able to tell you that they finished 2-6, and short of the playoffs.
However with the beginning of this year, came a new, almost guarantee. Kitna said during training camp, somewhere along the lines of, "We have a really good chance of winning 10 games." Now I know this isn't the same thing as using the most unnecessary and overused positive thinking in sports, the guarantee, but it might as well have been. (picture from http://images.prideofdetroit.com/images/admin/KitnaPatsGame.jpg)
To which I ask:
What do you see in your team now that makes you think you actually can win 10 games?
Is this still the team that uses four underachieving receivers that were drafted in the first round?
Aren't you, John Kitna, still the starting quarterback?
So following today's game, in which Kitna literally threw away the game against the Packers by giving up two 'Pick 6's' in the final three minutes, it appears as if the Lions will once again be insignificant in the NFC. I'm not trying to hate on the Lions, rather, Kitna.
Kitna is not a legitimate starting quarterback in this league, and I don't understand why he is given the permission to run his mouth. He is a bad player on a bad team. It's almost humorous, of all people who should be talking, it shouldn't be him. I "guarantee" you that by the end of this season he'll have lost more games for the Lions, then he will have won.
2 comments:
I agree that Kitna is overrated. I thought people were a little too high on him to begin with.
Couldn't have said it better. He is the last player that should be making gurantees. It's very obvious that in a weak NFC North, the Lions are the worst in that division.
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