Matt Millen
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"Matthew George "Matt" Millen" is an American former National Football League linebacker and a former executive. Millen played for the Oakland Raiders, the San Francisco 49ers and the Washington Redskins. In Millen's 12-year NFL playing career, he played on four Super Bowl-winning teams. Millen won a Super Bowl ring with each of the three teams for which he played; moreover, he won a Super Bowl ring in each of the four cities in which he played (the Raiders won championships in both Oakland, California/Oakland and Los Angeles, California/Los Angeles during his tenure).

After his playing career, Millen was President and chief executive officer/CEO of the Detroit Lions from 2001 until week 4 of the 2008 NFL season. His eight-year tenure as head of the franchise led to the worst eight-year record in the history of the modern NFL (31-84, a .270 winning percentage), and resulted in his termination on September 24, 2008.

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He's kind of a cross between Corey Dillon and Fred Taylor. He has a chance to be real special.

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The kind of college career he had and success he had, we just wanted to take a look at him, see his arm, watch him move around. He made all the throws. It was a good little workout. There are a lot of guys we're going to bring through.

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I like what we have right now. After having no receivers, it's nice to have some options.

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At times, good people suffer a cruel fate, ... and this is one of them. . . . It's not a happy day. Steve is as good a person as I've been around. He's a close friend of mine, and it bothers me.

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That's a new one on me.

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It's nice to have the full support of the Detroit community. Seeing my name on all of those banners and signs at games gives me a warm feeling inside, the feeling you get when you sense that you're minutes away from being canned. It's a good thing I just read my name on those signs and nothing else.

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Before we get to that, we have to play better. That's the first thing we have to do.

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I'm interested. We wanted to bring him in to give him a physical, to see where he is physically. I think he can contribute. You've got to find out what you're getting, if you get it. Finances are something you have to try to work out -- like every other team. But I wanted to see exactly where he is right now.

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Now we're waiting for him to get where he's going to go. He'll take another step.

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