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Message: <blockquote data-quote="big3" data-source="post: 44897" data-attributes="member: 189">Re: Mike Martz could run Lions offenseby TomKowalski, 2/3/06 9:32 ET fellas ...this had nothing to do with money ... marinelli loved the idea of working with martz strictly in terms of the football side, but he was well aware of the potential problems he could've caused and that's what he had to weigh ... i really got the sense from marinelli, after talking to him after the wednesday press conference, that he had a lot of thinking to do about the decision ... in the end, it's my belief that marinelli couldn't be sure that martz would buy totally into the lions agenda, as opposed to the martz agenda ... while martz would've brought something good to the lions in terms of innovative offense, the potential that he would've disrupted marinelli's desire to mold the team into a "we're all in this together'' philosophy could've been put at high risk ... marinelli believes the lions, more than anything, need a change of attitude and a narrowly focused direction ... he wasn't going to risk that, regardless of the cost ...</blockquote>

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