A New Hope

Today is the Start of the Detroit Lions 2006 Football Journey

and in the Detroit Free Press Today we had this quote

"Marinelli tells the players they need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. That's especially true of the players who were in Detroit under Steve Mariucci, who ran a much more friendly camp.

Mariucci didn't have water breaks. He called them "Easter egg hunts." The trainers would toss bottles of Gatorade on the grass, and the players would take a break and find their favorite color/flavor.

Marinelli is no Easter Bunny. One player said he had to scrounge water when he could during the last minicamp"

Which leads me to say this:

The Detroit Lions will be better this year under Rod Marinelli, they will have a chance and they won't give up. I'm giving the Lions the same expectations I gave the Tigers at the start of the year which was about 500 and that's where I think the Lions will end up this year. I hope that they can win a very week NFC North but I don't know if they can, I only know that this year Lions will not give up in any game because Marinelli will not allow that. This team will play hard and be very hard to beat, I just do not know if they have a good enough o-line and quaterbacks to go places. That is why I'm saying the Lions will finish around 500 but I'm hoping for better.

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