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Steve Mariucci On His Way Out In Detroit

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11/25/05

Detroit shouldn't fire Mariucci, what they need to do is fire Matt Millen and get some wide receivers who can catch.

Mariucci's future uncertain after bad loss to Falcons

After Thursday's 27-7 home loss to Atlanta on national television, the Detroit Lions' playoff hopes are finished. Now it appears their coach may be done too.


The Lions are in discussions that could lead to the firing of head coach Steve Mariucci possibly as early as Friday, according to reports in the Detroit Free Press and on WJBK-TV in Detroit. After two and a half disappointing years with Mariucci at the helm, the loss to the Falcons on Thanksgiving may have been the final straw.


"I don't know what's going to happen or anything like that, but nobody's stupid in here," offensive lineman Damien Woody told the Free Press.

"People know that, hey, things didn't go right. It was a pretty bad loss on national television. We'll see what happens."



The Lions are 15-28 since 2003 under Mariucci, including a 4-7 record this year, a year that began with high hopes in the organization. Thursday's loss dropped Detroit 3½ games behind NFC North-leading Chicago, and 1½ behind second-place Minnesota.



"I take the responsibility, because I'm the head coach, and I should," Mariucci told the Free Press. "And that's what makes it a little bit frustrating, because where do you start? You identify where we need to be better, and there's a multitude of things."
 
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11/25/05

Steve Mariucci remains the Detroit Lions' coach.
While Detroit media reported that the team might fire Mariucci the day after a 27-7 home loss to Atlanta on national television, a decision is not likely Friday, ESPN's John Clayton reported.
Team sources told Clayton that the Ford family, which owns the team, is in Florida. Players were in for an hour for routine film review, then were released until Monday.
Mariucci and team president Matt Millen met, but not in an official situation, merely a regular day-after-game meeting.
"Nothing's happening today. Reports of a power confab are unfounded," a team public relations representative said.
The Detroit Free Press and WJBK-TV in Detroit reported late Thursday that the Lions were in discussions that could lead to the firing of Mariucci as early as Friday. After two and a half disappointing years with Mariucci at the helm, the loss to the Falcons on Thanksgiving may have been the final straw.

"I don't know what's going to happen or anything like that, but nobody's stupid in here," offensive lineman Damien Woody told the Free Press. "People know that, hey, things didn't go right. It was a pretty bad loss on national television. We'll see what happens."


The Lions are 15-28 since 2003 under Mariucci, including a 4-7 record this year, a year that began with high hopes in the organization. Thursday's loss dropped Detroit 3½ games behind NFC North-leading Chicago, and 1½ behind second-place Minnesota.


"I take the responsibility, because I'm the head coach, and I should," Mariucci told the Free Press. "And that's what makes it a little bit frustrating, because where do you start? You identify where we need to be better, and there's a multitude of things."
 
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The fact that Matt Millen still has a job simply boggles my mind. But when you spend all those high draft choices on big name offensive talent and they can hardly move the ball at all, it's kind of hard to make a case for the coach. I think Mooch is a pretty good coach, and I feel bad for him. If Millen keeps his job after this season, the Lions are a complete joke. Well, even more so than they already are.
 
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The fact that Matt Millen still has a job simply boggles my mind. But when you spend all those high draft choices on big name offensive talent and they can hardly move the ball at all, it's kind of hard to make a case for the coach. I think Mooch is a pretty good coach, and I feel bad for him. If Millen keeps his job after this season, the Lions are a complete joke. Well, even more so than they already are.
There's wasted talent all over the NFC North, but Detroit has the most.
 
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Well, one thing is for sure, any luster that Much had for being an "offensive genius" is gone now, considering the talent they have. Wouldn't be totally surprised to see him land in Green Bay, though.
 
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do they have wasted offensive talent at QB tho? If you put Kurt Warner or a number of other average QBs on this team, they would put up huge numbers. Detroit has three perfect WRs to send deep, and yet neither QB can deliver a good deep ball (I'm going to defer to Aikman's opinion yesterday having only seen the lions a few times, and him having a little more insight into the position)
 
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do they have wasted offensive talent at QB tho? If you put Kurt Warner or a number of other average QBs on this team, they would put up huge numbers. Detroit has three perfect WRs to send deep, and yet neither QB can deliver a good deep ball (I'm going to defer to Aikman's opinion yesterday having only seen the lions a few times, and him having a little more insight into the position)
Yeah. Garcia, Harrington, McMahon when he was there. If Millen would actually use one of those flashy hight draft picks on something besides a skill position player, an offensive lineman maybe, their QBs wouldn't seem so incompetent.
 
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