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The Detroit Lions announced the hiring of Rod Marinelli as their new head coach yesterday. He was the defensive line coach for the Buccaneers of Tampa Bay for the last decade. Whoopdeefrickindoo. I had the pleasure of watching him stumble through his press conference after being presented to the media by Matt Millen (29-51 over the last 5 years, 22 straight wins and he’ll be a .500 general manager). Does anyone think Marinelli has a chance of winning? Wouldn’t you rather have the Big Buck back on the Honolulu blue and silver golf cart? In my experience, the defensive line coach on most teams is generally a rockhead. They tend to excel at thing like yelling and acting like buffoons. If the defensive line coach turns out to be smart, they are usually moved up the food chain to a coaching position that involves planning and game strategy. So the Lions hire a guy that has been a d line coach for a decade…perfect. I guess I should be happy, Jim Haslett was their next choice. It’s also nice to see that Coach Rod has adopted the Diamond Cutter as his finishing move.

In honor of the new Lions coach we are going to have a New Cuts contest. The person that comes closest to predicting the number of games coached by Marinelli will win a prize to be determined later. Trust me, it will be something good…I’m just not sure what. I jump out of the gates first with a prediction of 29 games. Good Luck.