2006 Football Betting Season Review:  The 2006 football betting season was another disaster in Detroit and their football betting fans as the Lions went a pathetic 3-13.  They were also losers for football betting players that had money on them going 6-10 against the spread.

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	Detroit Lions 2006 Stats
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The Lions did go over in 9 of their games in 2006 for NFL betting players that bet totals.  Rod Marinelli didn’t do much with the Lions as head coach and although they did put up points on some occasions the defense was awful.  Quarterback Jon Kitna did play well in some football betting games for the Lions but he is not a franchise quarterback and will not win games by himself.

DETROIT LIONS 2006 SEASON REVIEW

Detroit Lions	W/L/T	ATS	OU
2006 Record	3-13	6-10	9-7

2006 Team Rank
	Off	Rank	Def	Rank
Pass	263.0	5	232.6	24
Rush	70.6	32	125.6	21
Total	333.6	17	358.2	27

2006 PLAYER STATS
Passing
Player		PCT	YDS	TD	INT
Jon Kitna		62.4	4208	21	22
Rushing
Player		ATT	YDS	AVG	TD
Kevin Jones		181	689	3.8	6
Arlen Harris		49	158	3.2	1
Receiving
Player		REC	YDS	AVG	TD
Roy Williams		82	1310	16.0	7
Mike Furrey		98	1086	11.1	6
Touchdowns
Player		TD	RUSH	REC	PTS
Kevin Jones		8	6	2	48
Roy Williams		7	0	7	42

Detroit Lions 2006 Stats

2006 Stats	Rushing Statistics				Passing Statistics					Total
	PPG	RA	RY	RYPA	COMP	ATT	PCT	PY	PYPA	Plays	Yds	YPP	YPPT
Off.Stats	19.1	19	70.4	3.7	23.2	37.2	0.624	238.7	6.4	56.2	309.1	5.5	16.2
Def. Stats	24.9	30.8	125.3	4.1	21.2	31.9	0.663	220.3	6.9	62.7	345.6	5.5	13.9

The Detroit Lions stunk last football betting year.  There is no way to sugar coat the truth and the Lions’ personnel would probably be the first to agree with that statement.  But there is nothing especially revealing in that opening remark.  The Lions have generally always stunk and small success that they’ve had otherwise has been an aberration.  Not since the days of Barry Sanders has Detroit even come close to sniffing the post football betting season, or even a winning record for that matter.  And unfortunately, last year, even the great Barry Sanders couldn’t have rescued this team from its own ineptitude.  But with a new coaching staff and a new football betting philosophy, the Lions appear to be getting closer to being on track than the have in the recent past and football betting fans saw it.
The biggest acquisition of the football betting season was not a player but a coach.  And not even the head coach, although the Lions got one of those too.  Head Coach Rod Marinelli was brought in to replace the departed Steve Mariucci and he had an immediate football betting impact.  But his impact paled in comparison to the on field results that the arrival of Mike Martz, offensive guru extraordinaire brought to the team.  In a matter of months, Martz brought this moribund offensive into the land of the living with a QB that could barely get a job as a back up before Martz got a hold of him and football betting fans realized that as well.
John Kitna, a journey man from the football betting powerhouse of Eastern Washington State University had showed a few glimpses of skill when subbing for starters in places like Cincinnati, but with the help of Martz and his clever schemes Kitna put up all pro numbers throwing for 4200 yards, completing 62 percent of his passes and earning a QB rating of 80.  However, he threw 22 INTs to go along with his 21 TDs which hurt a team a bit, but was still light years ahead of the production that the Lions got out of former number draft pick Joey Harrington.
And with the arrival of Martz and his bag of offensive football betting tricks the team could finally utilize all that talent that they had ostensibly wasted on first round picks on Receivers.  Roy Williams proved himself worth every penny they spent on him.  All that was lacking in his development was a QB that could get him the ball.  Williams caught 82 passes for 1310 yards and seven TDs.  And he hurt the defense from everywhere on the field average a respectable 16 yards per catch.  Mike Furrey also had a break out year catching 98 passes for 1086 and six touchdowns, mostly across the middle and on drag routes and slants.
The running game for the Lions stunk.  Kevin Jones had an ugly football betting season riddled with injuries and the team simply had no one to back up the young RB.  NO surprise that the team finished dead last in rushing yards per game, although the Lions were seventh in passing yards per game.  But that did little to counter-effect the defensive woes and the football betting team was the second to worst in the NFL in terms of points allowed.  It was only slightly better in total yards allowed, ranking fourth worst in the league.  Against the run the team was 21st and against the pass the team was ranked 25th.  Its 19.1 points again simply wasn’t enough to dig the team out the holes that it often found itself in thanks to the defense’s poor play or an errant Kitna pass.

But as low as the talent level is on this team the real blame lies with the man that brought the underachieving talent pool together.  And that man is Matt Millen, perhaps the most incompetent GM in all of sports, perhaps football betting history.  Football betting fans can only hop that Millen doesn’t blow the up coming draft the same as he has every other year that he’s been at the helm.  He has shown over an over again that he has no clue about personnel and has repeatedly squandered high draft picks on football betting players that didn’t pan out.  This is the most important task of GM and if he can’t improve on his awful record the Lions will never win so long as he’s calling the shots.  The sooner the Lions dump Millen the better.