For Marinelli, when the going gets tough, the tough stay put At his weekly news conference Monday, Lions coach Rod Marinelli said he took a question about quitting as a personal insult. Someone asked why. "Then you don't know me," he said. Marinelli has made it hard for outsiders to get to know him, though, and that shows his strength of character and weakness in public relations. The man isn't one for warm-and-fuzzy personality profiles. He doesn't open up about himself in interviews. If Marinelli talks too much about who he is, that would betray who he is. In bad times, he says it's on him; in good times, he says it isn't about him. That's how he believes leaders should act. The problem is, without enough context for the example he's trying to set, people don't get it -- or with the Lions losing so badly, people don't care....
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