Congratulations Detroit Lions - a perfect season

[Sea Ray]

It's a performance based business. Indeed an 0-16 team does deserve to be blown up. To argue that the head coach or the D-coordinator deserve to be retained is ludicrous.

[redsfanmia]

Originally Posted by Redsfaithful

Seriously? I don't know much about the guy, but he just piloted the Lions defense to an 0-16 finish and one of the worst defenses in NFL history (going by points allowed). I'm going to go out on a huge limb here and say he's not a very good football coach, but being that I'm not a Lions fan and don't follow them too closely I suppose I could be wrong. But given the results I feel pretty comfortable with my conclusion.

I dont know if Marinelli and staff are good coaches or not but they have the worst roster in the NFL and you cant take chicken bleep and make chicken salad. This season should be blamed on Mr. Ford and Matt Millen not Rod Marinelli and son-in-law.

[Redsfaithful]

Originally Posted by redsfanmia

I dont know if Marinelli and staff are good coaches or not but they have the worst roster in the NFL and you cant take chicken bleep and make chicken salad. This season should be blamed on Mr. Ford and Matt Millen not Rod Marinelli and son-in-law.

A good coach would have won two or three games at least, and avoided being historically awful.

I don't disagree that Ford and Millen deserve most of the credit though.

[RichRed]

Originally Posted by Danny Serafini

Tampa only went 0-14 though. 0-16 hadn't been done until today.

Tampa Bay lost the first 26 games of their franchise's history, before beating the Saints and Cardinals at the end of the '77 season.

At least the Bucs had being an expansion team as an excuse. They were division champs by '79 though, which goes to show how quickly a turnaround can happen with the right people in place.

The Lions need to de-Marinelli themselves for that to have a chance of happening in Detroit though.

[Chip R]

Originally Posted by Slyder

Who would you rather be right now....

Detroit or Dallas.

Those that dont know.

Philadelphia 44
Dullas 6

I'm not quite sure why Jones is keeping Phillips and the rest of the staff on.

[UKFlounder]

I think "de-Millen" is the better term, though Marinelli did not help it much when he came in.

(Oh, and perhaps draft something besides a WR in the 1st round too)

Originally Posted by RichRed

Tampa Bay lost the first 26 games of their franchise's history, before beating the Saints and Cardinals at the end of the '77 season.

At least the Bucs had being an expansion team as an excuse. They were division champs by '79 though, which goes to show how quickly a turnaround can happen with the right people in place.

The Lions need to de-Marinelli themselves for that to have a chance of happening in Detroit though.

[UKFlounder]

'Cause the media said he would and he wants to prove them wrong

Seriously, he also said he would not trade for Roy Williams, yet a couple of weeks later - Voila! he traded for Roy Williams.

Who knows what will happen, but I must admit I enjoyed watching that beatdown yesterday

Originally Posted by Chip R

I'm not quite sure why Jones is keeping Phillips and the rest of the staff on.

[cincrazy]

I thought the Bengals of the 90's were awful. They have nothing on the Lions of this decade.

The Bengals went 52-108 in the 90's. This decade, the Lions are 40-104. Ouch.

[camisadelgolf]

Originally Posted by cincrazy

I thought the Bengals of the 90's were awful. They have nothing on the Lions of this decade.

The Bengals went 52-108 in the 90's. This decade, the Lions are 40-104. Ouch.

Wow. I can't even fathom that.

Fortunately, some of the people who want to make Bungles jokes will have a different target for a while.

[RichRed]

Originally Posted by cincrazy

I thought the Bengals of the 90's were awful. They have nothing on the Lions of this decade.

The Bengals went 52-108 in the 90's. This decade, the Lions are 40-104. Ouch.

So the Lions just need to go 12-4 next year to tie the Bengals. Piece of cake.

[Unassisted]

Jim Rome must have been happy, too. He always roots for a team to do this.

[SunDeck]

Originally Posted by cincrazy

I thought the Bengals of the 90's were awful. They have nothing on the Lions of this decade.

The Bengals went 52-108 in the 90's. This decade, the Lions are 40-104. Ouch.

And Mike is not real happy about that.

[timothy1]

Yet... they haven't gotten shutout once... so much for effort

[Chip R]

Originally Posted by UKFlounder

'Cause the media said he would and he wants to prove them wrong

Seriously, he also said he would not trade for Roy Williams, yet a couple of weeks later - Voila! he traded for Roy Williams.

Who knows what will happen, but I must admit I enjoyed watching that beatdown yesterday

After that 2nd long TD in the Ravens game, I said to myself that he was so fired. I guess Jerry likes a guy who does his bidding.

[Slyder]

Originally Posted by Chip R

After that 2nd long TD in the Ravens game, I said to myself that he was so fired. I guess Jerry likes a guy who does his bidding.

Just like Al is the puppet master in Oakland. He changes puppets but nothing changes on game day. Shmucks in, Shmucks out.