Comments on: LIONS FIRED FOR HIRING ITALIAN GUY http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/lions_fired_for_hiring_italian_guy/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:40:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Guy Cabot http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/lions_fired_for_hiring_italian_guy/#comment-3574 Guy Cabot Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=2627#comment-3574 Whoa, there. Mariucci "clearly the best coach available"?? Not if we're using a wins-losses criteria. Then you'd have to select Dennis Green. With SF, Mariucci took a pretty decent team and turned it into a soap opera. Let's face the fact Detroit had a chance--an opportunity, really--to at least interview some talented black candidates (including the Lions' own Defensive Coordinator, Sherm Lewis, who frequently appears on head coach short lists) and they elected to go with the status quo. Whoa, there.

Mariucci "clearly the best coach available"??

Not if we're using a wins-losses criteria. Then you'd have to select Dennis Green.

With SF, Mariucci took a pretty decent team and turned it into a soap opera.

Let's face the fact Detroit had a chance--an opportunity, really--to at least interview some talented black candidates (including the Lions' own Defensive Coordinator, Sherm Lewis, who frequently appears on head coach short lists) and they elected to go with the status quo.

]]> By: James Joyner http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/lions_fired_for_hiring_italian_guy/#comment-3575 James Joyner Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=2627#comment-3575 Dennis Green is an excellent coach--as is Art Shell, who inexplicably never got another head job after doing pretty well with the Raiders. But Green made it pretty clear that he was only going to take a job that was HC-GM, which the Lions weren't willing to consider. Mariucci was quite successful with the 49ers, considering all the turmoil with DeBartolo, having Bill Walsh around screwing things up, and the salary cap hell they went through. --- Dennis Green is an excellent coach--as is Art Shell, who inexplicably never got another head job after doing pretty well with the Raiders. But Green made it pretty clear that he was only going to take a job that was HC-GM, which the Lions weren't willing to consider. Mariucci was quite successful with the 49ers, considering all the turmoil with DeBartolo, having Bill Walsh around screwing things up, and the salary cap hell they went through.

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