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Here's what life after 0-16 looks like for Cowboys defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli
By Dan Wetzel
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/here-s...sive-coordinator-rod-marinelli-224404012.html
OXNARD, Calif. – An impressive array of talent stepped onto the twin practice fields of the Dallas Cowboys' training camp here last Thursday morning. There was Dez Bryant, Jason Witten, Tyron Smith and so on. They were milling about waiting for an air horn to signal the start of the first session of the first day of a season with Super Bowl possibilities.
Standing near one of the end zones may have been the unlikely key to it all, a blue-collar, 66-year-old, Vietnam War veteran who in football terms holds a humbling, and considering his current role, unlikely distinction:
Coach of the worst team in NFL history.
Detroit Lions, which isn't just the only NFL team to go 0-16, but one that barely even threatened to win a game. Those Lions, in one example of futility among many, lost their eight home games by an average of 22 points.
They were historically awful mostly because of eight years of disastrous personnel decisions by Matt Millen, the organization's de facto general manager. They had almost no good players operating within a culture of extreme dysfunction. That Marinelli couldn't manage a miracle wasn't a full reflection of the coach...
By Dan Wetzel
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/here-s...sive-coordinator-rod-marinelli-224404012.html
OXNARD, Calif. – An impressive array of talent stepped onto the twin practice fields of the Dallas Cowboys' training camp here last Thursday morning. There was Dez Bryant, Jason Witten, Tyron Smith and so on. They were milling about waiting for an air horn to signal the start of the first session of the first day of a season with Super Bowl possibilities.
Standing near one of the end zones may have been the unlikely key to it all, a blue-collar, 66-year-old, Vietnam War veteran who in football terms holds a humbling, and considering his current role, unlikely distinction:
Coach of the worst team in NFL history.
Detroit Lions, which isn't just the only NFL team to go 0-16, but one that barely even threatened to win a game. Those Lions, in one example of futility among many, lost their eight home games by an average of 22 points.
They were historically awful mostly because of eight years of disastrous personnel decisions by Matt Millen, the organization's de facto general manager. They had almost no good players operating within a culture of extreme dysfunction. That Marinelli couldn't manage a miracle wasn't a full reflection of the coach...
