Lomas Brown: I purposely missed a block to get Scott Mitchell hurt Posted by Michael David Smith on December 22, 2012, 3:44 PM EST
Getty Images Former Lions offensive tackle and current ESPN analyst Lomas Brown made a startling confession in a radio interview on Friday: Brown said that he once purposely missed a block because he wanted the man he was supposed to block, Packers defensive end Sean Jones, to injure Lions quarterback Scott Mitchell.
In an interview on ESPN Radio, Brown said that in a 1994 game, he purposely whiffed on Jones so that Jones could get a clean shot on Mitchell. Sure enough, Brown got his intended result, as Mitchell was knocked out of the game.
“We were playing Green Bay in Milwaukee,” Brown said. “We were getting beat, 24-3, at that time and he just stunk up the place. He’s throwing interceptions, just everything. So I looked at Kevin Glover, our All-Pro center and I said, ‘Glove, that is it.’ I said, ‘I’m getting him out the game.’ . . . So I got the gator arms on the guy at the last minute, he got around me, he hit Scott Mitchell, he did something to his finger . . . and he came out the game. [Lions backup quarterback] Dave Krieg came in the game.”
Host Ryen Russillo expressed shock that Brown would admit such a thing, but Brown showed no remorse.
“As you can tell, I’m just not a big fan of Scott Mitchell. He’s just not on my Christmas list. He won’t be getting any Christmas presents from me this year,” Brown said.
The Detroit Free Press notes that while Brown misremembered some of the details of the game, his basic description of what happened adds up: Jones drilled Mitchell with a hit that broke a finger on Mitchell’s passing hand, and Mitchell was replaced by Krieg. As Brown correctly recalled, Mitchell was having a terrible game, but Krieg played well in relief for the rest of that game and played well for the Lions the rest of the season.
Brown seems proud of himself about being the one who caused the team to change quarterbacks, but he shouldn’t be. There’s never an excuse for a football player to step onto the field and not give his best effort, but to fail to give your best effort because you want one of your teammates to get injured is totally unacceptable. For Brown to laugh about it all these years later, as if he’s glad that his actions caused a teammate to suffer an injury, is disgraceful.
And for Brown, who is suing the NFL because he says the NFL didn’t do enough to protect players from concussions, to celebrate the fact that he once stood by and allowed an opponent to take an injury-causing free shot at a teammate, is pitiful.
Post by goldenlions on Nov 16, 2022 0:21:08 GMT -6
Lomas is the man! Mitchell sucked and didn't deserve to be on the field. Although a tad unprofessional, but hard to care for a guy who was by all account a total asshole.
And leave it to rusty to drub up a 30 year old story without prompting because he doesn't like the current QB (even though he is playing better than the previous one).
Lomas is the man! Mitchell sucked and didn't deserve to be on the field. Although a tad unprofessional, but hard to care for a guy who was by all account a total asshole.
I guarantee you Lomas Brown is a bigger asshole than Mitchell. It takes a special kind of asshole to do what he did, and then an even more special kind to be proud of it.
Lomas is the man! Mitchell sucked and didn't deserve to be on the field. Although a tad unprofessional, but hard to care for a guy who was by all account a total asshole.
I guarantee you Lomas Brown is a bigger asshole than Mitchell. It takes a special kind of asshole to do what he did, and then an even more special kind to be proud of it.
How exactly can you give me a guarantee? Just curious how you would do this.
I guarantee you Lomas Brown is a bigger asshole than Mitchell. It takes a special kind of asshole to do what he did, and then an even more special kind to be proud of it.
How exactly can you give me a guarantee? Just curious how you would do this.
If you want to get literal...perhaps guarantee is too strong. "Safe to say" would have been a better choice of words.
Lomas is the man! Mitchell sucked and didn't deserve to be on the field. Although a tad unprofessional, but hard to care for a guy who was by all account a total asshole.
And leave it to rusty to drub up a 30 year old story without prompting because he doesn't like the current QB (even though he is playing better than the previous one).
Goff definitely is better than Mitchell ever was. I mean, he's probably putting up similar stats, and that's with mostly practice squad receivers.
I'm just saying ... I was at the Bears game, and my Bears friends were kinda' remarking on it too. He's not good when there's pressure. Luckily his O-line gives him all day to throw a lot of the time.
Last Edit: Nov 16, 2022 14:28:18 GMT -6 by rustyhilger
It was a different game back then. I think shit like that happened more than is talked about.
Probably, but I think back then it was more "kill or be killed". I doubt there were many players purposely not doing their job in hopes to get a teammate injured.
I think they were trying to win, not justifying the move but it did work
Did it though? Krieg had a nice little stretch but was gone after that season and Mitchell was the starter again the following year and led them to a 10-6 season.
