Rod Marinelli
Rod Marinelli
Rodney Marinelliis an American football coach who is the defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. Marinelli has been a defensive coach for several college and professional teams, serving primarily as a defensive line coach when he has not been a coordinator. From 2006 until 2008, Marinelli was the head coach of the NFL's Detroit Lions, where he oversaw the infamous 0-16 season in 2008; he was fired the day after the season end...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth13 July 1949
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We've been on the same page all the way. We're looking for the same guy.
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Every schedule has its challenges, but the bottom line is for us to be ready to play each and every week. It's not about who we play, when we play or where we play. The issue is us -- what we do and how we do it.
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That would be nice. He just kind of made his decision to move in a different direction. That's kind of how I left it. I wish him the very best. The thing I can tell you is, he's got terrific talent.
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That was a full day for an hour of watching a man work, where I could have watched numerous films that day on other players -- and we're going to get film of that workout anyway.
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It is a similar position, and he's got traits like Derrick -- but Derrick has been to nine Pro Bowls, so that's where the comparison stops.
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I wish I had done a better job of that. But I got so focused on certain things - that I had to go get this guy, this guy - I didn't do as good a job. One thing I've done here, I've had a chance to see some of the coaches I didn't get back to, and I apologized.
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Right now you're using these camps as tools to teach and find what you want to teach. The biggest thing is progress and the tempo were trying to create.
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I was disappointed when it happened to me and I'm disappointed for Joe now. But he did sign a contract and he knew this could happen from the very beginning.
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I don't think you put a timetable on that. It could be done quick, or it could be done maybe a little bit later. I think it's a process. It'll always work itself out.
If we were out there today, he would take the first snap.
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We're going to coach this guy real hard. Off of film, you can see all the upside to him -- tremendous upside.
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A player can just be so disruptive there. Sometimes, it doesn't show on the stat sheet, but it's knocking down a pulling guard, it's drawing a double-team block, it's knocking a blocker out of the way. You create havoc. You create chaos.
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I owe it to the Lions to get the best man I can get. It's not about me being comfortable.
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I'm going through this tunnel and I'm not looking. I've got these little bumps over the side I've got to take. But my tunnel is where I want to go.