Coming off an embarrassing Turkey Day loss to the Falcons, the Detroit Lions canned head coach Steve Mariucci Monday, naming defensive coordinator and former Bears HC Dick Jauron as the interim head coach.
So did Mooch deserve to get fired? Well, the Lions were 15-28 under Mariucci, including 4-7 this season, which doesn’t exactly help you establish job security. Of course, if I’m pointing fingers, I’m looking for president Matt Millen, who put together a team that’s gone an NFL-worst 20-55 since 2001. Unexplicably, Millen was given a five-year extension before this season.
Pro Bowl cornerback Dre Bly, in an interview on the NFL Network, pointed his finger at someone else, though:
“They should have fired guys on this team a long time ago… I feel like there is one guy in particular who I felt like is the cause of this whole thing. That’s just how it is.”
Who?
“It’s not hard to figure out. The quarterback (Joey Harrington) here has been bad. He hasn’t gotten the job done since I got here. Y’all just see Sundays, but I’ve been a part of this every day for three years… practices. You see how the guys practice and the practices have been bad… I really don’t believe coach would have gotten fired if Jeff (Garcia) didn’t get hurt.”
Things have been ugly in Detroit for a long time, yet somehow, they just got even uglier.
