The Lions will club the Vikes next week. The stars are in alignment. Unless that was Apothis.
The Lions play the Packers next week. The Vikings have already beaten the Lions twice this year (though the Lions had a lead for a while in the 2nd game).
The GIANTS will club the Vikes next week.
Sorry, one cold miserable place is like another. Green Bay, Minnesota whats the diff. If Green Bay is getting weather like we are ,the Lions will have to leave tomorrow to slog through the snow to get there.
The way things are going for them, their plane just might wind up in the wrong city. (Not sure this would hurt their chance of winning much.)
He did that? Man, I wish he scored more, then. Watch this space for his Hallmark commercial.
It was in a dome.
Well it gets more interesting. Rumors are flying that Marinelli will not be canned. I do not think they can save his staff,
Rob Parker asked him in a press conference if he didn’t wish his daughter married a better offensive coordinator. His son in law is the offensive coord. Terry Bradshaw and his panel took huge offense and say Parker should be canned. They claimed he stepped way over the line.
Well, although Detroit teams have been famous lately for hanging on to bad managers far too long, I must say that the Lions would be really stupid to fire Marinelli just because of an 0 - 16 season. As has been pointed out, the Lions have a number of difficulties to address in personnel, and those aren’t head coach issues.
Having said that, I think they should get rid of him for a totally different reason. I see a team that accepts failure far to easily. I see a team that doesn’t try, that gives up on plays, that quits working in the middle of games. Those ARE head coaching issues.
“Even if you don’t play well, you’ve got to play hard. If you don’t, you become what you tolerate. If you tolerate poor practice habits, if you tolerate not finishing, if you tolerate lack of execution, that’s what you become.”
The author of that prescient quote? Rod Marinelli.
Here is my suggestion. Wait for the first firing of someone decent and well-known over the off season. Hire that person. Then you don’t have to worry about people blaming the coach for your ineptitude. There are likely going to be some casualties after the season is done. I expect that the Bengals might well say they’ve had enough of Marvin Lewis, though I don’t blame their problems on him, but rather on their continued reliance on toxic players rather than the sort of solid, dedicated performers he had to work with in Baltimore.
The draft pick is a touchy issue for the Lions. I hope they find a way to trade it, though even if they do, they will be questioned when the caliber of the people they get for it isn’t what some people “expect.” If they can’t trade it, they will be forced to draft the best player on the board this year, and sad to say, that is likely to be another quarterback. If they don’t draft the best player available, and draft the best, say, offensive or defensive lineman available, they will end up seriously overpaying for what they have drafted, limiting their ability to pay others what they are worth, and forcing them to pay everyone too much because of the salary set by the overpaid #1 draft choice.
I have to correct you on this some. First of all, Marvin Lewis is still under contract, and Mike Brown is loyal to his coaches, even the bad ones we’ve had. Marvin is no Dave Shula!
Secondly, the sideshow that was the Bengals 2006 arrests is in the past. End of story. Bringing it up now outside of for comedic value is irrelevant.
Third, the Bengals are the most injured team in the NFL right now. Couple that with losing top picks to injuries (David Pollack, Kenny Irons) or stupidity (Odell Thurman) leaves you a lot of holes to fill, especially when everyone else gets injured too.
We have 24 players on IR right now, and our franchise QB only played in 4 games (and they didn’t IR Palmer). Many of those players were starters. I know every team gets injuries and the best teams overcome them with depth, but last year we lost all but one of our starting LB’s to injury (we even had our DE Geathers playing LB for half the season LAST year…he’s also on IR now, btw) and we had oline injury issues, and now this season our oline and secondary, as well as the RB spot are shot with injuries.
Hell, Chad Johnson has also been nonexistant all season, has a torn labrum he’s been playing with.
Our franchise RT Andrews just tore his ACL against the Browns.
It’s too much to overcome when you have guys starting all over the place that were selling steaks door to door earlier in the year.
Edit: we also played one of the toughest schedules in the NFL this season, with two games against both Baltimore and the Steelers (top defenses), the Giants (top defense), the Cowboys, the Titans, etc, etc
Chad Johnson is toxic. He’s all about himself. Continuing to rely on him in any way (short of as the water boy) is self-defeating. Going back out when your receiving corps is thin and re-signing one of your previously notorious bad boys is further evidence of this toxicity. Just because they aren’t being caught and arrested this year doesn’t mean they aren’t toxic players.
The Bengals wouldn’t have won substantially more games this year even had Palmer been healthly. Six or seven games won would be a good estimation. But it isn’t the head coach’s fault.
Tell that to the Patriots.
I don’t disagree. I wish they would have accepted Washington’s offer during the draft earlier this year. We also really need to resign TJ Houshmanzadeh.