Off With Their Heads!!

3 NFL head coaches were fired today.

Rod Marinelli was fired today by the Detroit Lions, who went 0-16 this year.

"You can't go 0-16 and expect to keep your job," Marinelli said. The man said it all.

Romeo, Romeo. Where art thou Romeo? Looking for a job. Romeo Crennel was canned by the Cleveland Browns. The Browns were expected to make a playoff run. Instead the Browns, with the color scheme of crap, played like it so Romeo was run out of Cleveland.

Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner talked to Bill Cowher about coaching the team. Cowher's response, not interested.

"The explanation that he gave," Lerner said, "was that he was very focused on his kids and his life in North Carolina, and the way he's living in a noncoaching or, if you will, a civilian existence and that he wasn't finished with that."

In other words, I'm not leaving my comfortable gig at CBS to coach your underachieving team.

Finally, and this one puzzles me, Eric Mangini was fired by the New York Jets. Team owner Woody Johnson and General Manager Mike Tannenbaum's reason for the move was, let's say it all together, they felt the Jets need to go in a different direction.

"I don't think it was one thing," owner Woody Johnson said at a news conference Monday. "We had to go in a different direction. There's nothing specific. It's just a call we made. Hopefully, it's correct."

"He did a great job for us for three years and he helped lay a great foundation," Mike Tannenbaum said. "We felt, in our judgment, we want to build on that and go in a different direction."

Sounds like corporate speak for "We are making a change to make a change." Ladies, gentlemen and Jet fans, it's this kind of decision making that make the New York Jets the joke their are.

The Jets played far above their heads starting out 8-3 and then your celebrity quarterback Brett Farve lets you down. In his last 5 games Farve threw only 2 touchdown passes and 9 interceptions.

The Jets collapse is on Farve, not Mangini. I know you can't fire Farve but you can the head coach. I'm sorry, Farve was great 10 years ago but now he's became a liability with his poor decisions and bad throws. Now you can call Brett Farve a coach killer because the way it looks he undermined Mangini authority to the point where the idiot owner and GM made this move.

Eric Mangini will be a successful head coach in the NFL. He won't with the Jets though but judging from their checkered past, who can.

Eric Mangini Photo Courtesy: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images

Pursuit Of Perfection Complete: Lions Go 0-and-16

It took some doing and some late-game heroics by the Green Bay Packers secondary, but the Detroit Lions have accomplished what few thought was even possible- going winless in the modern era of professional tackle football.

It takes a special group to pull off such a special feat, and while the Packers did their best to keep the honolulu blue in the game the Lions finished the job.

Special thanks go to two distinct groups- the defense for allowing the Packers 17 fourth quarter points and Kevin Smith who single-handedly took the team out of field goal position with an unsportsmanlike penalty during a drive in the fourth.

"No competitor wants to go through something like this," said Lions coach Rod Marinelli, who declined to discuss his future with the team. "This is not fun to go through, obviously. But there's people going through a lot worse than this."

The Detroit Free Press actually found some folks who had reasons to be thankful over this perfect season. They, obviously, lost their minds...
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