Comments on: Mamma Mia, It’s Marinelli! http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2006/01/19/mamma-mia-its-marinelli/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:09:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Doug http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2006/01/19/mamma-mia-its-marinelli/comment-page-1/#comment-5309 Doug Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-5309 I think that Matt is obsessed with coaches who's names start with M. I think that Matt is obsessed with coaches who’s names start with M.

]]> By: orangeandbrown http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2006/01/19/mamma-mia-its-marinelli/comment-page-1/#comment-5310 orangeandbrown Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-5310 I don't know what to say. He sounds like my eighth grade gym teacher ("Men"), and looks a little like him, too. But, I don't object to the stressing of accountability, and he sounds like he is a guy who knows what he is about. My favorite college football team named a coach who had never been a coordinator or head coach before, and I couldn't believe it either. His name was Urban Meyer. I don’t know what to say. He sounds like my eighth grade gym teacher (”Men”), and looks a little like him, too. But, I don’t object to the stressing of accountability, and he sounds like he is a guy who knows what he is about.

My favorite college football team named a coach who had never been a coordinator or head coach before, and I couldn’t believe it either. His name was Urban Meyer.

]]> By: Doug http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2006/01/19/mamma-mia-its-marinelli/comment-page-1/#comment-5311 Doug Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-5311 From Peter King's article this week Rod Marinelli is getting some rave reviews. "The Detroit Lions have just gone from Club Med to the military," former Buc John Lynch told me the other day. That's fitting, because Marinelli is a Vietnam vet. The one thing Detroit president Matt Millen wanted in a head coach was a Bill Parcells clone, a tough-hided guy who would make a bunch of disinterested players care about football again -- whether they wanted to or not. Charles Rogers, Damien Woody, Mike Williams ... these are some of the guys I'm told could live their lives quite happily if they never played another down of football. Marinelli won't stand for that attitude. "Rod's an incredible guy,'' Trent Dilfer, the former Bucs quarterback, told me. "He's the unsung hero of all those Tampa Bay teams. That defensive line he coached had some different personalities -- Warren Sapp, Simeon Rice -- and Rod controlled 'em, motivated 'em, got 'em to practice hard every day. I love Rod Marinelli.'' From Peter King’s article this week

Rod Marinelli is getting some rave reviews. “The Detroit Lions have just gone from Club Med to the military,” former Buc John Lynch told me the other day. That’s fitting, because Marinelli is a Vietnam vet. The one thing Detroit president Matt Millen wanted in a head coach was a Bill Parcells clone, a tough-hided guy who would make a bunch of disinterested players care about football again — whether they wanted to or not. Charles Rogers, Damien Woody, Mike Williams … these are some of the guys I’m told could live their lives quite happily if they never played another down of football. Marinelli won’t stand for that attitude. “Rod’s an incredible guy,” Trent Dilfer, the former Bucs quarterback, told me. “He’s the unsung hero of all those Tampa Bay teams. That defensive line he coached had some different personalities — Warren Sapp, Simeon Rice — and Rod controlled ‘em, motivated ‘em, got ‘em to practice hard every day. I love Rod Marinelli.”

]]> By: Steve http://www.detroitlionsblog.com/wp/archives/2006/01/19/mamma-mia-its-marinelli/comment-page-1/#comment-5312 Steve Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-5312 Particularly telling "Charles Rogers, Damien Woody, Mike Williams...these are some of the guys I'm told could live their lives quite happily if they never played another down of football." This is where Millen neeeds to be strung up. You have plenty of opportunity to suss out these personalities before you draft or sign them. You mean to tell me, no one was aware of a lack of internal motivation before these players became Lions. It makes me sick, that they have been unable to acquire players who are hungry as football players. I hope Rod brooms the undesirables out ala Urban Meyer. Particularly telling “Charles Rogers, Damien Woody, Mike Williams…these are some of the guys I’m told could live their lives quite happily if they never played another down of football.” This is where Millen neeeds to be strung up. You have plenty of opportunity to suss out these personalities before you draft or sign them. You mean to tell me, no one was aware of a lack of internal motivation before these players became Lions. It makes me sick, that they have been unable to acquire players who are hungry as football players. I hope Rod brooms the undesirables out ala Urban Meyer.

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