Seriously????
Just a refresher...
Detroit Lions
On January 18, 2006, Marinelli was named the head coach of the
Detroit Lions, replacing
Dick Jauron. Marinelli was the fourth coach hired by Lions CEO
Matt Millen, preceded by
Marty Mornhinweg,
Steve Mariucci and
Dick Jauron.
The Marinelli era began poorly, as the Lions lost the first five games of the 2006 season before beating the
Buffalo Bills 20–17. The Lions lost seven games in a row between weeks 10 and 16 before ending the year on a high note by beating the
Dallas Cowboys 39–31.
The 2007 season started off well for the Lions as they started 6–2. However, the Lions lost seven out of their last eight games, and finished the 2007 season 3rd in the NFC North with a 7–9 record.
Despite a perfect 4–0 preseason,
Marinelli coached the 2008 Lions to a winless 0–16 campaign, the worst and only winless season for any NFL team since the 16-game regular season was instituted in 1978 (The last team to lose all of their games was the 1976
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who went 0–14; the last team to not win a game was the 1982
Baltimore Colts, who were 0–8–1 in a strike-shortened campaign.)
On December 26, 2008, Marinelli was fired, in addition to the majority of his coaching staff.
[1] His record during the 3 seasons with the Lions was 10–38, one of the worst in NFL history for a head coach with at least three years' experience. Among coaches with at least 10 career wins, only
Bert Bell has a worse record (10–46–2);
Steve Spagnuolo posted the same 10–38 mark as Marinelli.
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This is how bad of a coach he is. And now we are completely turning over the defense to him this year...bringing his former scrubs like Paea in that have washed out through the league.
Why we keep entrusting more power to this guy is beyond stupid.
Only in Dallas...could we employ a guy that went winless in a season...and think he's the right guy for the job.