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'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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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.
At this moment, he's not with us. That's been my decision.
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These 15-minute interviews are choreographed. They've already got certain things they're going to tell you. You want to get them off track.
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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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You would think, at this level, that you shouldn't have to coach tackling. No, you do. The people that don't, don't tackle well. You watch games and say, 'Man, that's sloppy tackling.' Well, you have to work on tackles and angles. It's your fundamentals. It's like if you are playing golf, you work on your golf swing even if you played 20 years, right?
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It's about how hard the man is willing to play. Then you look at how hard he's willing to be coached. So you've got to find the type of men for whom football is so important that I've got to lock them out of the facility. That's what I'm looking for and that's what I'm going to find.
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It's been a very busy and enjoyable six days on the job. I've had a chance to talk to a lot of people so far.
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It's just about how hard the man is willing to play. Sometimes you'll see these guys on tape not playing that hard all of the time, and now you have to go research why.
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It seemed to go very well. You know how things go, you kind of get a feel for it. But you don't get too excited until you get your second invitation in the mail. I've got to kind of wait and see and hang in there.
disrespect
It was my decision. I won't go into it because I won't ever disrespect someone.