As for Bountygate, Millen said: "What I don't understand is how a bounty works. In theory, it shouldn't work. It should never happen. When you step on the field, you're giving everything you have. So I don't care if you're giving me a billion [extra] dollars, I can't play any harder. It doesn't make sense to me."
Millen said he wasn't buying what he heard in that Gregg Williams' pregame speech.
"I know Gregg Williams and you have to know him and the context his words were spoken," Millen said. "I don't want to minimize it, but Gregg is a guy who is filled with hyperbole and loves to exaggerate things. He had been there for four years and by the time he was talking to them before that game, they had heard it a million times before. Those [players] were probably yawning."
One other thing that came through in my brief conversation with Millen is that he's a big fan of new Penn State coach Bill O'Brien and strongly believes the program is in great hands while also acknowledging the sad loss of Joe Paterno.
REGGIE VS. METTA
Metta World Peace made a guest appearance on Conan O'Brien's late-night TBS show and said he expected criticism from the regular media after his elbow to the head of James Harden, but he didn't appreciate the comments of former Pacers teammate Reggie Miller.
"The regular media can have their judgment because that's what they do," he said. "But when you get a player you were in the same locker room with, talking about you on TV because he has a new gig, it's like, 'Come on man — you were in the locker room when you asked me to protect you.' "
DID YOU KNOW?
Saturday's running of the 138th Kentucky Derby, won by I'll Have Another, attracted 14.8 million viewers on NBC, up two percent from last year. It was the third-most watched "Run for the Roses" in the last 23 years.
KEITH'S CAN'T MISS … The Packers' Donald Driver is not even the best receiver on his team, but may be the best football player/dancer ever onABC's "Dancing With The Stars" which reaches the semifinals next week.
