Herm is the worst head coach in the league barring the Raiders interim coach. He took a good product and made it worse, the Lions were bad before Marinelli and the Rams look ten times better with Haslett than they did with Linehan, so please…don’t give Harm that much credit. He doesn’t know how to manage the clock, keep a lead, etc. Watch his reaction to winning on inside the NFL on Showtime, its laughable.

Good post. I am, however, getting tired of the constant Herm bashing from supposedly informed poeple who seem to constantly miss the injury list and the fact we have scored MORE points in the last five games than some teams have scored all season long (okay maybe an exageration, but I might be close!). Is Herm the best coach in the NFL? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Is Herm the worst coach in the NFL? If your answer to this is yes, then you obviously are hating for hates sake or due to incompetence I am not sure which. Herm has had the same problem this year he had with the Jets. Injuries, injuries, injuries. We started the season with guys nicked and not 100% healthy, LJ can’t keep his ass on the field because his father apparently taught him the WRONG way to treat women and some of the guys that looked a little promising this year have looked absolutely abismal. So is that Herm’s fault? I guess to some the play of individual is the coaches fault because they should be able to see if they can play or not. But if they look good in practice, how can you blame the coach for them not making tackles in games or totally missing blocks during a game. That is the individual players fault NOT the damn coaches. Do I think Herm should be fired? Maybe. But would you people be calling for Bellichek or Cowher if they were the coaches of this exact same team? Of course not. They have won super bowls. Of course some of you pundits are likely going to comment back that if we had either of those coaches, we wouldn’t be 2-10, we would be 10-2, BS, but we are all entitled to our opinions.

Also, I’m more than willing to celebrate Connor Barth. He’s hit from 45 yards out (and if I remember right, the kick had plenty of distance on it), and he’s shown he can make the makeable kicks – unlike Rayner, Medlock and Novak. I would like to see him make a big pressure kick, and possibly a bad-weather kick, but he’s already obviously better than the last few kickers we’ve had (possibly barring John Carney).

Being that we do not run the team, we are resigned to abiding things as they are and hoping for a better next year. I now understand what is is to be a Lions fan.