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Here is the Lions social media tweet that burned Fields

This Pride of Detroit article explains the tweet (I needed the explanation):

https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2023/11/21/23970651/detroit-lions-social-media-fries-justin-fields-chicago-bears-comeback-win-dancing

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https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/scott-mitchell-reacts-to-barry-sanders-documentary

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https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/sc...rs-documentary

News flash, Scott Mitchell:

You weren't good.

I saw some of your games in the late 1990s, and to think we could've had Joe Montana or Warren Moon over your sorry, 3rd string making 1st string money butt!

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While it wasn’t all on Mitchell he never recovered after that playoff game in Philly.
Then Bobby Ross was hired and it got worse from there.

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He sucked. He had no fucking heart.

Fuck him

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While it wasn’t all on Mitchell he never recovered after that playoff game in Philly.
Then Bobby Ross was hired and it got worse from there.

I saw a few games in Barry's last 2 seasons, 1997 and 1998, and besides that Bobby Ross was an overrated hack Head Coach, Scott Mitchell still didn't have the tenacity or gumption to be better than he was. Mitchell was 32-39 as an NFL QB, with only the '95 and '97 seasons the only ones in which he had a winning record.

People forget that Mitchell next went to the Baltimore Ravens in 1999 and flamed out there spectacularly, and the very next season, they picked up an average at best former QB from Tampa Bay, Trent Dilfer, and told him just to not foul up the offense, and let the defense do the rest, and the Ravens went all the way to a Super Bowl Championship.

You look at Tom Brady, who was drafted famously in the 6th round in 2000, which happened to be the next to last year Mitchell was in the NFL. Brady took advantage of Drew Brees being injured in the '01 season at New England and ran with it into an eventual Hall of Fame career. Brady worked on his craft, and he was motivated to get better, and not settle for getting a fat contract, like Mitchell was.

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https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/sc...rs-documentary

You know, Deb (Or do you prefer Deborah? All these years I've never asked, lol.), after that Breaking Bread video you showed me I decided I like Scott Mitchell for the first time in years. BUT now he is throwing Barry under the bus because Barry had low rushing outputs in playoff games? Oh why, why God did the Lions want Joe Montana instead of me? Maybe because you were a friggen backup quarterback and Joe Montana was the GoaT? Dafuq who does this guy think he is? Chris Spielman took ownership of that Philly wildcard game. Scott Mitchell wants to blame everyone, including himself. Well, he's half right.

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You know, Deb (Or do you prefer Deborah? All these years I've never asked, lol.), after that Breaking Bread video you showed me I decided I like Scott Mitchell for the first time in years. BUT now he is throwing Barry under the bus because Barry had low rushing outputs in playoff games? Oh why, why God did the Lions want Joe Montana instead of me? Maybe because you were a friggen backup quarterback and Joe Montana was the GoaT? Dafuq who does this guy think he is? Chris Spielman took ownership of that Philly wildcard game. Scott Mitchell wants to blame everyone, including himself. Well, he's half right.

I could care less about Scott Mitchell.

He was soft then, and he's soft now.

Another bungling mistake by William Clay Ford Sr., who could never figure out how to run a football team right.

At one time, before and after he took over as Owner of the Detroit Lions, he had Don Shula, Bill Belichick, Marty Shottenheimer, Chuck Knox, and Jerry Glanville on the coaching staff over the years, and would always choose the wrong guy to run things in the General Manager's room (Russ Thomas, Chuck Schmidt, Matt Millen, Martin Mayhew).

Outside of Glanville for the Head Coaches, the others that I mentioned above either won a Super Bowl or at least had teams in the Playoffs often like Shottenheimer or Glanville, both who had a Bo Schembechler like aversion to Playoff victories.

It's telling that once Mitchell retired after the 2001 NFL season, nobody was remotely interested in him as a scout or even a coach. His reputation throughout the NFL is so bad that he's sort of like the William Clay Ford Sr. curse for Detroit Lions Head Coaches that never end up getting another chance to run things, in the QB sense.

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Here's the article from today's Detroit News on the original soft QB for those 90's Lions teams:

Former Lions QB Scott Mitchell rails against portrayal in Barry Sanders documentary



Justin Rogers
The Detroit News



If Scott Mitchell could rate Amazon's new Barry Sanders documentary, "Bye, Bye, Barry," less than one star, it's pretty clear he would.

The former Detroit Lions quarterback unleashed a lengthy rant on Facebook with his impressions of the film, which was released on Tuesday, particularly the portrayal of his role in keeping Sanders from winning a Super Bowl with the Lions.

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In his response, Mitchell railed against what he feels has been an inflation of Sanders' greatness, his lack of support from former coach Wayne Fontes, and even commentary, provided by Michigan natives Eminem and Jeff Daniels, that was part of the film.

"I just watched 'Bye Bye Barry' on Amazon Prime," Mitchell wrote. "It was not a very pleasant experience. I was Barry Sanders teammate for five years. I had a front row seat to some of the most amazing plays in NFL history. He will never have an equal as a pure runner in the NFL. I could argue that their (sic) were several running backs that were more complete, but I won't. Barry was great!



"However, I am so tired of hearing how I was the reason that Barry Sanders never won a Super Bowl," Mitchell continued. "I'm so tired of hearing how I was not a good QB. My only response is F--K YOU ALL!!!!! That includes Eminem (and) Jeff Daniels."

In regards to Fontes, Mitchell said it was difficult to hear the coach's lack of support for him in hindsight after he said in the documentary he wished he had been able to provide Sanders a better quarterback.



"I can't even began (sic) to tell you what a disappointment it is to (hear) my own coach, Wayne Fontes, who went out in free agency and actively (pursued) me to the point of begging me to come to Detroit, say that he wanted Joe Montana or Warren Moon, and that the only thing that was missing from the team winning the Super Bowl was a quarterback," Mitchell wrote. "A little support from the coach might have gone a long way. Wayne never had my back!"

Mitchell, who was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in 1990, became a highly sought-after free agent after filling in for Dan Marino for seven games during the 1993 season. Detroit signed him to a lucrative three-year, $11 million contract as a free agent, and despite a sluggish start, he went on to have one of the most productive passing seasons in NFL history to date in 1995, throwing for 4,338 yards and 32 touchdowns, leading the Lions to a 10-6 record.



Mitchell would suffer a rib injury the following year as the Lions stumbled to a 5-11 record, leading to an overhaul of the coaching staff. The retired quarterback bemoaned the Lions' overall lack of patience, as well as Sanders' own playoff performances, as being bigger factors in preventing the franchise from winning a Super Bowl.

"Bottom line, Barry Sanders had everything in Detroit," Mitchell wrote. "Everyone loved him. Everything was built for Barry to succeed. In his 10 year career, he won one playoff game and the only reason he didn't win more was everyone else was the problem? How many yards did Barry have in the playoffs in '94, '95, '97? I'll give you a hint not very many. We all are to blame for not winning a (Super Bowl) in Detroit even Barry Sanders.



"I will believe until I die that had we been given more time and patience with the offense, we had and the talent we had we could have made a deep run in the playoffs and competed to win a Super Bowl."

Mitchell would stay with the Lions through the 1998 season before he was traded to the Baltimore Ravens. In four years with Detroit, he posted a 27-30 record as a starter, plus an 0-2 mark in the postseason.



jdrogers@detroitnews.com

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