What about Bob?

Rod Marinelli became the first coach to go 0-16, but the man went out with as much dignity and class as anyone.

For starters, he held a press conference on Tuesday, the day after his firing. That’s more than former Lions coach Steve Mariucci did.

Marinelli started off every press conference with his injury report, and he held true to form in his last one.

“The only injury today is me,” he said, smiling.

And then he talked about what it meant to go 0-16, and why he’ll always make the distinction between the record and the effort.

“I said the record will speak for itself, but I should've added also, when you say 'worst,' I always look at quitters,” Marinelli said. “That's what ‘worst’ is to me – non-caring, people who give up, pout, cry, point fingers. That's ‘worst.’

“Let our record speak for itself, but when I look at worst, that is worst, and this group of men, we didn't succeed on the field in terms of our record, but they succeeded in everything I wanted them to do. We came a long ways in terms of how to be a football team and the record doesn't show it, but it's a start and it's a foundation.”

Class act, coach.