Dan Patrick reacts to recent comments made by former Detroit Lions quarterback Scott Mitchell in which he criticized the way he was portrayed in the recent Barry Sanders documentary as the reason why Barry Sanders and those Detroit Lions teams didn’t have playoff success
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Wait a minute! Dan Patrick was in the documentary but it's clear he has not seen it yet. NOTHING about Scott Mitchell was mentioned. So I don't know why he is so upset. Maybe that's his issue- that he wasn't mentioned. But the documentary was very balanced, very well written, very transparent. Very well done!!
Can someone give me a timestamp in the documentary where Scott Mitchell is being criticized?
169 yards for Barry in last home playoff loss. Can't blame Barry for not covering Sterling.
Dan Patrick, are you really defending Scott Mitchell? You are incorrect, he only had the 95' season with over 30 TD's, and what did he do in the playoff game against Philly? He threw for 155 and had 4 INT's in a blowout loss. He sucked in 94' before he got hurt and Dave Krieg led the Lions to the playoffs. He sucked in 96' no playoffs and had a decent 97' and sucked in the wildcard against Tampa Bay.
Scott Mitchell stole all that money the Lions gave him. He's the one they should have made him pay back. He's a SORE LOSER!
Let's be honest, this Scott Mitchell clown mad he wasn't invited to be a guest on the documentary like the other players. Even Rodney Peete, who was a QB for Detroit was in the documentary. Nobody was even thinking about Mitchell. He wasn't valued enough to even be mentioned. Just whining for no reason.
The documentary is as boring and uninformative as Barry Sanders. Barry is not the greatest RB of all-time. A true RB that can be considered THE greatest of all-time time is a RB that can run between the offensive tackles, burst through the line, and into the secondary. Barry mainly would get the ball head for the hole and abrubtly go to the outside. Sanders was great in SPACE, but not running through the line. I'd take Walter Payton or Emmitt Smith over Barry Sanders. However, I can say it was a waste for Sanders to have played his entire career in Detroit. It was sad to see such a great talent playing for such a nondescript NFL team.
I love Barry Sanders but I actually think the documentary was pretty mediocre. It didn’t add much to what we already knew about him, nor did we learn anything about why he retired. Now he doesn’t have to apologize at all for retiring how he did but let's not pretend this was one of the better sports docs. It wasn’t.
Maybe if Scott Mitchell worried a little more about staying in shape while he was the Lions quarterback, then I'd be more interested in his opinion now.
As a local in Utah that has to listen to Mitchell on my evening commute, the dude is insufferable.
Doesn’t prepare, asks off the wall questions to guests, and kinda just phones it in as an analyst that doesn’t analyze anything but just goes with his gut feel based solely on his glory days playing. Contrast that with Merlin Olsen’s nephew Hans who is on a couple hours earlier, who is breaking down film and tweeting his film analysis, and it’s night and day the quality of each show.
Is the Biggest Loser still on TV? Because Mitchell may need to do another season given that his rant may not be what a church owned radio station wants from its flagship sports radio show.
Scott Mitchell is an idiot. First off there was zero bad things said about Mitchell in the documentary. On top of that Mitchell had the one good season that he had because he was surrounded by great talent and the main goal of a defense was to stop Barry which opened up the field for everyone else. To bring up Barry Numbers in the playoffs is really foolish as well because a running back can only do so much. Its not like a quarterback that over throws or under throws a receiver and we can clearly see that he messed up especially when the quarterback was not under pressure or hit while throwing. Barry was not out there not hitting wide open holes was he or fumbling the ball etc? With the defense keyed on not ketting Barry Beat you and making the passing game beat you. Or simply dominating the time of possesion to keep Barry off of the field etc. Its not like Barry choked is my point. But Mitchell was a complete clown for this. Barry never showed up his teammates or even opposing players. The man has been nothing but respectful and Mitchell acts like this. Most dont Blame him for Barry not winning a title. We Blame the Luons organization for not building a good enough team around one of the best players of all time.
We Lions fans called Scott, " footsteps". He played scared. ( It seemed ) plus It appeared his teammates didn't trust him to come through in crunch times.
The skins put 8-9 people in tbe box to stop Barry an Mitchell couldn't take advantage
Scott Mitchell's name was never mentioned
Love barry as lion fan but id take billy sims over him billy got the tough yards,barry run trying not 2 get hurt and almost never did
Mitchell made it possible to stack the line against Barry. Mitchell was an average QB. Any good QB would have been able to move the ball with Barry in the backfield because your going against single high safety looks all game. The other safety is playing LB trying to stop Barry all game. Plus Mitchell threw picks in key playoff moments. That's why the fans disrespect Mitchell and rightfully so.
I always hear people talking about how bad the o line was. I rarely hear about the QBs. He needs to shut up
Scott Mitchell was mostly horrible. He had that one outlier year where he threw for over 4000 yards because everything was clicking on offense…. 3 very capable wide receivers, Barry being Barry and good protection from the line. However, watch the Lions vs. Bengals in 1998 week 2. The overtime loss because of him pretty much sums up what kind of player he was. Back-to-back interception throws. How do you do that when everyone in the world was keying in on Barry? He was benched for the rest of the season after that game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg8yeovo44g
What people don't realize is Herman Moore in his prime was basically Megatron
Human part: Yes. From a player POV: No.
Barry never mentioned Scott or blamed their QB play or coaching. If anyone asks “would you rather have an old Joe Montana or Scott Mitchell”, then 99/100 would say Joe Montana. Only person saying Scott is his mom. Scott is upset that Rodney Peete was in the doc and not him. Which is fine by me, because when we had good receiving core Scott had one good year. After that he was hot garbage. We needed a better QB than Scott, and one or two more Quality linemen.
Mitchell threw 43 interceptions in his three full years as a starter. That’s the reason the team never won a Super Bowl or even a playoff win. Playoff teams could stack the box on Barry because there was no threat of a serious passing game.
It was 9 man boxes every play to contain Barry. How hard is it when you have man coverage every play to complete passes? I'm sorry but the reason Barry didn't have good play off games was because teams knew he was the only threat.
Didn’t even remember them saying anything about Mitchell on documentary.
Barry games in the 1994-1997 playoffs he had 13,10,& 18 carries. With Barry the next carry could go for 80 and the momentum swing. Up until 1997, inexplicably he would go whole halves with minimum touches and kill the spirit of the offense. The Lions play calling was very frustrating for most of his career at times. For Scott Mitchell, those 3 games filling for for Marino in 1993 is the only reason we are even talking about him. Having said that: the 1995 Lions offense I challenge to be in the Top 10 all time.
I'll partially defend him by pointing out that Barry not having playoff success isn't some anomaly, worthy of some total hatefest at everyone else. MANY all time great offensive weapons are ringless.
If we're being honest? There are only two players in NFL history where you could say it's mind boggling they never won a chip. Marino and Tarkenton. End of list. What do these two have in common?
No Barry was the man Scott can thank Barry for his one good season …Mitchell is and always will be a JOKE !!!
Jeff Daniels and Eminem. What do you expect from two left wing doosh bags? Mitchell's right. F*** them.
No ever deserves all the blame … but let’s keep it 100… Barry did not have great stats during the playoffs, because he had to carry the team instead of the QB… Barry opened the passing game instead of vice versa… Mitchell cashed in on his four games replacing Marino in Miami and should be content… Kramer and Pete probably realized their potential more than Mitchell, but Lions were content with average QB’s the whole time Barry was there… Scott Mitchell and Andre Ware were their only attempts at getting legit QB’s and when that didn’t work out, Detroit settled for butts in seats in the stands, which Barry always provided
The plan to beat Detroit was, stop Barry. When that happened more often than not, Detroit lost. The QB never overcame one player drawing all the attention so yes, Scott, you the player with the ball always in his hands, are majority at fault
The World needs more diplomats
As much as Dan has a right to criticize the great Colin Cowherd
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Actually Barry didn't get a lot of yards in the playoffs in large part because the play calling was atrocious. In 1994 against Green Bay, Lions coach Wayne Fontes continually ran Barry into a stacked line and he wound up with negative rushing yards.
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I can tell there were many times Scott Mitchell moved up in the pocket to stop at the line of scrimmage with 10-15 yards of open space to throw an incompletion. So yes he deserves credit it was extremely frustrating to watch.
Barry wasn’t good in the playoffs because he was a soul attention of the other team. They literally said we’re not gonna lose the Barry Scott, Mitchell’s gonna have to beat us and he couldn’t.
I hated Scott Mitchell's lack of poise and softness despite being 6'6 and 250. But people have crapped on him a long time, including a teammate who joked on-air about missing a block so Mitchell would get sacked. Imagine how it feels, being singled out despite the Fords and Wayne Fontes screwing up for decades. I feel bad for him.
Barry never said anything about Mitchell. Barry is a class act!
It’s a team sport. The Detroit Lions did not win playoff games as a team.
The Lions never had the talent of the Cowboys, 49ers or Packers.
sometimes, saying nothing is preferable.
He 100% does. the fact that he and Wayne Fontes were just open about "if only we had a QB" was downright disrespectful. The knock for all time was the OLine and now it's the QB. That said, Barry is still the GOAT
Sports media is awful, including this 'legend'. The reason Mitchell had good numbers is because every team stacked the box v. Sanders. He had 1 on 1 on the outside more often than most teams in most games. He is blamed for the playoff loss because he could not take advantage of that situation, the defense took Sanders and the running game away, forcing the Lions to throw the ball over that defense…real simple stuff when you break it down. This dude is a 'legend' that is either confused because he doesn't understand the simple concepts of the sport he covers or he is feigning that. Absolutely ridiculous, either way, we don't need a revised history over how 'good' Mitchell was nor do we need to defend his lack of talent and abilities 25 years later. Nor do we use stats that are out of context to justify anything at all, any argument at all. They need context or you are one ignorant a$$hole. All there is to it. What an a$$hole take by this 'legend'.
Scott who?