Watch: Matt Millen pokes fun at himself for his record in Detroit

Current Big Ten Network analyst Matt Millen gets regular mockery for his term as the Detroit Lions’ president and CEO from 2001 to 2008, which produced a 31-84 record (with a .270 winning percentage, the worst in the modern-era NFL over an eight-year span), and Millen is clearly aware of that. He even chimed in with a little self-mockery while praising Wisconsin linebacker Vince Biegel during BTN’s Minnesota-Wisconsin broadcast Saturday:

Funniest thing Matt Millen has said during a game, @kevinkugler? https://t.co/IPKrFWpwMm

— Brent Yarina (@BTNBrentYarina) November 28, 2016

“Gotta love Vince Biegel. If I were picking a team…and there are people in Detroit that would say, ‘Please, don’t do that!’…I would still take Vince Biegel.”

That’s pretty funny, and that’s good self-awareness from Millen. His record as an executive is certainly worth questioning, as is his record as a personnel evaluator, but he’s not the one who hired him for that job despite a lack of personnel experience, and at least he recognizes how poorly things turned out for him.

[Brent Yarina on Twitter]