Comments on: Lions’ Dominic Raiola calls Bears’ Henry Melton a clown

By: burgandy2260

burgandy2260 — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:07:57 +0000

Hopefully Melton will send him a post card from Hawaii. To where, nobody knows where Raiola will be during the off season but it starts tomorrow for him. Back to the grind huh Dom! It’s tough being a multi year loser but you do it so well!!

By: axespray

axespray — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:11:10 +0000

Dude has a point – when taking on the Bears – You’ve Got Tillman/Urlacher/Briggs/Peppers/etc. – who has time to pay attention to Melton…

Meanwhile, Suh/Kevin Williams – blah….centerpieces blah.

By: mute617

mute617 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:06:35 +0000

See when you’re injured, you don’t play. Urlacher didn’t play the last 2 weeks either buddy

By: ohiobears

ohiobears — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 03:10:41 +0000

…Bringing all the attention to HIMself? Arian Foster didn’t even know who you were dude, until a few weeks ago when you were talking about how JJ Swatts is a nobody. You’re the joke bro.

By: thompsonway

thompsonway — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:29:39 +0000

Never mind, unable to find the link.
I think all this talking is ment to sell tickets. With the Lions record, they need all the help they can get.

By: chi01town

chi01town — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:22:26 +0000

the Lions been playing dirty all season and the best way to deal with that is to play the same way.
Chicago wants a clean fair game..
NOT HAPPENING! Lovie needs to
save his Job and winning this game is a small step.

By: qbofthenever

qbofthenever — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:41:57 +0000

@nflfollower

“meaningless game”?

Bears Win followed by a Vikes loss means Bears are in the playoffs. Hardly meaningless. But you knew that because you follow the NFL, right?

By: qbofthenever

qbofthenever — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:40:58 +0000

@nflfollower

“meaningless game”?

Bears Anton followed by a Vikes loss means Bears are in the playoffs. Hardly meaningless. But you knew that because you follow the NFL, right?

By: allen227

allen227 — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:36:15 +0000

Hey Dominic, who made the Pro Bowl? You’re the clown.

By: wludford

wludford — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:19:52 +0000

Lions need to learn how to keep their mouth shut and let the play on the field do the talking.

Until then, this franchise should be renamed the Losers. It’s really unbelievable how undisciplined, immature and unprofessional that franchise is from top to bottom, starting in the off-season and continuing on through every week of the year.

I’ve never known an organization where a bad culture permeates so completely, it practically predestines the team to failure- as there post-season (or lack thereof) record has shown for decades.

And people wonder why they underperformed this year.

By: sowcrates

sowcrates — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:06:33 +0000

Kevin Williams has been a good player for a long time.

19 tackles, 2 sacks, 2 forced fumbles and 6 pass deflections in 2012. the PDs are impressive, but this is not pro bowl production unless you’re a nose tackle and everybody around you has double-digit sacks. Melton has 6 sacks and 10 more tackles, same forced fumbles, but like I said, Williams’ pass deflections are impressive.

Raiola needs to follow his buddy Olin Kreutz off into the sunset, the guy has never been a “clean” player and most guys know that.

By: thompsonway

thompsonway — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:02:11 +0000

I know that Melton has played great this year. And has anyone seen the montage on youtube, showing Lions defense verse other NFL players. Someone has done a lot of work to prove that the Lions are dirty. Check it out.

By: toolkien

toolkien — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:14:28 +0000

With all the trash talking going back and forth you’d hope that ONE of the two teams at least makes the playoffs after Sunday’s games (i.e. Chicago). All this angst over two non-playoff teams…?

By: kev86

kev86 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:51:38 +0000

I never heard of Melton until today.

By: staffordsyear

staffordsyear — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:22:55 +0000

Lookin forward to Sunday for sure.

By: zn0rseman

zn0rseman — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:22:14 +0000

Melton made the Pro Bowl?!?

Kevin Williams didn’t make the Pro Bowl?!?

What a joke.

By: cosanostra71

cosanostra71 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:08:51 +0000

Tired of hearing from Raiola

By: nflfollower

nflfollower — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:01:59 +0000

Oh well, all this talk adds a litle drama to the largely meaningless game. I’ll be there, and I have to admit it makes me look forward to going a little more than I would otherwise. Something to anticipate besides a cold beer and CJ breaking 2000 yards.

By: phreakin

phreakin — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:59:48 +0000

Raiola has been in the league a LONG time. Pretty sure he’s not as “terrible” as people are saying he is. And especially a guy playing center in the NFL

By: weaselpuppy

weaselpuppy — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:36:26 +0000

Leg whip coming up on Sunday!

By: haroldkahoney

haroldkahoney — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:12:21 +0000

can i speak for millions of football fans when i say “who is dominic riaola” I’ve been watching football my whole life and never heard of him. And then he is trashing a guy who was voted by his peers and a Pro-Bowl starter, (not the 2 clowns on his team who are better known as the dirty players we all know of). Maybe Dominic whoever should quit when he’s behind, just like the rest of his team.

By: cfos00

cfos00 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:09:08 +0000

Melton’s not a big name at all on the Bears, and still made the Pro Bowl. He did that by playing lights out and growing up as a player the past couple seasons. If Raiola says he doesn’t know who he is, apparently he doesn’t watch much game tape. That would help explain the Lions’ terrible running game and 4-11 record.

By: gnarlswoodson

gnarlswoodson — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:03:09 +0000

Raiola IS a dirty player, and Melton IS deserving of a Pro Bowl nod.

Sincerely,
A Packers fan.

By: toonloonboon

toonloonboon — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:02:52 +0000

the NFL is a soap opera for men.

By: higgy5353

higgy5353 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:02:34 +0000

Two words – Pro Bowl
That is all

By: seabronco

seabronco — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:57:30 +0000

Not a fan of either team but, who is this guy and why is he allowed to talk? Fatty sounds jealous to me.

By: thestatsishere

thestatsishere — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:50:49 +0000

I’ll just say that Melton deserved Pro Bowl honors. A pure beast in the middle.

By: lionsdraftguy

lionsdraftguy — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:45:07 +0000

Whos Henry Melton?

By: jeffsnow7

jeffsnow7 — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:37:29 +0000

Melton has definitely made a lot of noise this year. I do agree he has done a lot of self promoting before he goes into contract negotiations. its getting a little tiring hearing from him so much this week.
I hope Raoila shuts Melton up this week. I would like to shut him up with a Loss….

By: blackandbluedivision

blackandbluedivision — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:36:43 +0000

Why does it seem like every week the Lions have to defend themselves from an opponent calling them dirty? When everybody you face calls you dirty and the league labels one of your teammates the “Dirtiest player in the NFL,” at what point do you go “Well maybe we are.”