I really like the way Rod Marinelli is trying to reconstruct the attitude of the Detroit Lions. But sometimes his macho stuff goes a little too far.
It made no sense to have Jon Kitna in the game in the final minutes of Sunday’s blowout loss to Washington. Marinelli says he is driving home the point that his team is going to play hard on every down.
That’s fine, but there has to be a point where common sense takes over.
Kitna already takes plenty of hits. Subjecting him to even more when the game is out of reach is not good coaching. If Kitna gets hurt, the Lions can start planning now for another Top 10 draft choice (and, with Matt Millen in charge, it will probably be a wide receiver).
Why couldn’t the Lions play hard on every down in the fourth quarter of the Washington or Philadelphia games with the backup quarterback on the field?