ESPN's John Clayton has a pretty good story on all of the new coaching hires in the NFL. I know that's football, and this is a baseball blog, but it amazes me how two teams from the same city can seemingly make the same mistakes over and over.

The Lions have brought in coaches for the sake of bringing in coaches. Clayton describes the Lions as, "one of the wackiest groups in the league." That is Clayton being nice. The Lions are the classic example of the inmates running the asylum, or maybe it is that the warden (Mr. Ford) is just as crazy as anyone else in there.

Anywho, they hire Marinelli to be a tough hard-noses face of the franchise after Mooch was seen as too soft for this young team, but then they go against that by hiring Mike Martz, who while accomplished is a big question mark working for a coach who has never been a head coach at any level. Far be it for me to question a man's professionalism, but you have to wonder about a guy who left St. Louis like he did after he continued to clash with his bosses there being able to work under Marinelli. I can foresee a 49-47 loss with Martz blowing up that the defense didn't get the job done. I can only imagine Dre' Bly and Donnie Henderson's (Lions new defensive coordinator, and I like this hire) response.

Again it just seems like more drama for a team that has a dire need for direction and accountability. Didn't the Lions learn anything from the Tigers escapades with Alan Trammel. He failed to guide a team full of veterans like Pudge because he didn't have their respect or the experience to warrant that respect, and he was frigging Alan Trammel.

You should not hire coaches to sell tickets. You let the players sell tickets by winning and that is what the coaches should be hired for, their ability to win, not their name and pedigree.