Williams follows dumb guarantee with dumb remark

	The Lions' 0-2 record won't stop Roy Williams from smiling. Tom Pidgeon/Getty Images

I just re-watched Sunday's Bears-Lions game. And you know what? The Lions still lost. But this time it only took 30 minutes. Thanks to the new -- and commercial free! -- 30-minute NFL Short Cuts offered via DirecTV's football package -- totally worth the extra dough -- I could watch Roy Williams' hilarious victory guarantee fall apart in record time.

And the best part about the abbreviated game footage is that I didn't have to watch him get excited and point downfield after ­a meaningless first-down catch when the Lions, who lost 34-7, already were down 10-0.

Too bad I wasn't in Chicago to ask him about that. Luckily, Mitch Albom was.

"I celebrate first downs all the time," Williams said. "I'm not gonna stop that. I'm an exciting player. If I do something exciting, I'm going to show my actions."

"But," Albom said, "you were down 10-0."

"What does that mean?" Williams countered. "That means nothing to me. The score means nothing."

In a way, it's almost hard to fault the guy. The Lions haven't played in many games lately where the score does mean something. But after guaranteeing a win at Chicago and then losing by 27 points, he followed that up with another guarantee: that the Lions would beat visiting Green Bay this week. And maybe they will. The Pack Attack isn't what it once was. But for a guy whom Bears receivers coach Darryl Drake -- who recruited and coached Williams at the University of Texas -- told the Chicago Tribune is "one of the brightest football players I've ever been around," Williams' mouth continues to belie his uncanny athleticism.

Following the Lions' lackluster 9-6 Week 1 home loss to Seattle, Williams told a slew of Detroit reporters about his team's upcoming trip to Chicago, "Y'all can take that as a guarantee or what not, but we will win this game. You can take that as a guarantee if you want."

Just in case that wasn't totally clear, Williams was allowing you, if you felt so inclined, to take his statement that Detroit would beat Chicago as, some have called it, a "guarantee."