January 14th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
Feel bad for him.
January 14th, 2018 at 9:43 AM ^
The Giants must not have wanted him. Sad this will be his last NFL head coaching job ever.
January 14th, 2018 at 1:05 PM ^
I know it's a business but I don't know if I want him because he lost out on number one. Then again, this guy I know was quite happy to be this chicks number two choice. That we know of.
January 14th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
that one of the teams the interviewed him said he sounded like a GM. May have been from last year or the Giants this year. Either way, if he thinks like that and is in good communications with the Lions GM, they could make some sound picks and trades.
Fingers crossed. This is the Lions we're talking about.
January 14th, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
IDK why but I always had the feeling Patricia would come to Detroit. When the news surfaced that he preferred the Giants I felt that could've just been a strategy by his agent trying to get a fatter contract.
January 15th, 2018 at 12:21 AM ^
They implied that he turned down the Giants. Sportscaster lead-in something about spurning a three-time Super Bowl winner for Detroit. According to them, he’s good friends with somebody at the Lions. [Sorry, wasn’t taking notes, so not sure who.]
January 15th, 2018 at 12:29 AM ^
Bob Quinn our GM who was hired from NE.
January 14th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
Graveyard of coaching.
January 14th, 2018 at 6:27 PM ^
This will not end well for either Matt Patricia or the Lions.
January 15th, 2018 at 7:46 AM ^
has a losing record. . .
January 14th, 2018 at 11:20 AM ^
at this point in time, is more cowbell
January 14th, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
There. FIFY.
January 15th, 2018 at 4:42 PM ^
Love that gif.
January 14th, 2018 at 11:43 AM ^
Yes and No.
Yes - with the lions = head coaching graveyard, but
No - $$$
January 14th, 2018 at 12:19 PM ^
The Wildlings through the wall.
January 14th, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
whether or not he will able to finally end the Curse of the Ford Family. Been in place ever since they bought the team when I was a little boy. Part of the reason I became such a big Michigan Football fan.
January 14th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
Belicheck jr, I hope. What do folks think happens with JBC. my guess is he stays on for a year or so
January 14th, 2018 at 9:55 AM ^
He is better than Belichick. His 1st head coaching job didn't go so well. How do you know if it's the right hire, until you don't?
January 14th, 2018 at 11:30 AM ^
Belichick has a losing record as a head coach without Tom Brady.
January 14th, 2018 at 11:56 AM ^
To 11-5, until Modell announced the team was moving and the bottom fell out, resulting in a lame duck season where the Browns went 5-11 resulting in Belichick getting fired. Even his first coaching stop was pretty good contextually. The one concern I do have is his coaching tree doesn’t have a ton of nfl success, but has produced Nick Saban and Bill OBrien looks like a decent success so far.
January 14th, 2018 at 1:22 PM ^
I'd say
January 14th, 2018 at 10:11 AM ^
His gameplans were terrible and he had the most unimaginative running game I've ever seen. If he does not bring in his own OC, I would think that JBC was forced on him.
January 14th, 2018 at 10:44 AM ^
Was bad
January 14th, 2018 at 11:09 AM ^
If a subpar Coordinator is being forced on you, why in the hell would you take that job? Especially with other offers and your current job isn’t a bad situation at all.
January 14th, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^
With a injury riddled offensive line, and no running game.
I'll go ahead and keep James Robert Vagina for one more year, and see what he can do with a healthy oline and a legitimate running threat.
January 14th, 2018 at 2:52 PM ^
Crazy Cooter comin at you!
January 14th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
will we lose out before the super bowl?
January 14th, 2018 at 10:23 AM ^
You are amazing
January 14th, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
If we boycott the Huge Snow
January 14th, 2018 at 10:36 AM ^
of the super flu?
January 14th, 2018 at 11:25 AM ^
As long as you Don't take the vaccination. /s
January 14th, 2018 at 9:27 AM ^
I like the hire but he'd probably be better off staying in his current role until a better opportunity opens up.
January 14th, 2018 at 9:38 AM ^
Unless you believe in curses and voodoo, Detroit is probably as good of a situation as you can ask for.
Quality QB, ownership that is loyal to a fault, and familiarity with a GM that understands and shares your background (and hopefully philosophy).
Teams looking for a coach are usually doing so because they were really bad. Lions are a winning team. I have no faith they'll ever win anything because they have crushed my soul for decades, but this is as good of an NFL coaching opportunity as he's going to find.
January 14th, 2018 at 9:54 AM ^
Exactly. People need to look deeper sometimes than reputation / history. The Lions are a good job. Even Cleveland (which isn't open I know) who was 0-16 might be a great job to take for a head coach. No recent history of success, 2 top 5 picks in this NFL draft, 3 first rounders last year with the number one pick appearing to be a home run, and a metric shit-ton of cap space (100 million).
On the other side, the Giants job is a bad job to take....aging QB with no heir in sight, a horrific Oline, no significant cap space available, and a prima donna WR with an injury history that is about to get paid.
January 14th, 2018 at 10:09 AM ^
Last 40 year history of Lions HCs days....nope
January 14th, 2018 at 10:25 AM ^
for the sake of bitching about the Lions. Fact is, as of late, they're a decent with a lot of good pieces in place. With the right coach, they could make the playoffs with regularity and maybe go deeper than a 1st round exit.
January 14th, 2018 at 10:38 AM ^
A team that hadn't won a championship in 100 years just won it in 2016. There is no such thing as sports curses and the Lions are in better shape than they have been in decades.
January 14th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
are you talking about?
January 14th, 2018 at 11:56 AM ^
me thinks
January 14th, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^
I am literally gobsmacked that you cite ownership as a positive, when it is the single most important negative. And I'm not just basing this on curses and voodoo.
The owner hired a GM but did not allow him to hire the head football coach. Rumors are that now that the GM is to hire his coach of choice, ownership -- having been convinced by the quarterback -- are not allowing the coach to hire his offensive coordinator of choice.
There is, of course, much more. But this is very recent and very football related and so can't be dismissed as voodoo-thinking.
January 14th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
I haven't seen anything to support them. Further, they don't make much sense if the Patricia news is accurate. Why would he choose the Lions job with conditions like that being set?
People are so conditioned to bad Lions ownership that it's easy to start rumors like that and have people believe them. I take the idea that Quinn had to keep Caldwell with a grain of salt too.
January 14th, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^
Your second paragraph is it.
Even if Patricia isn't forced to keep Cooter, the rumor is plausible because of what ownership did to the GM the year before.
January 14th, 2018 at 11:36 AM ^
Rumors say Patricia is going to NY. Rumors say Kareem Walker is kicked off the team. Rumors say Oakland is still in play.
Bob Quinn is hiring his own coach and he and that coach will make staff decisions because that's their jobs.
Lions ownership has shown great patience with their hires even in the face of public outcry. As an employee, I'd rather work for them. Unlike places like Tennessee who renege on contracts because internet guys don't like the rumors they hear.
And with that, I bid you all a fantastic Sunday. I'm not doing this today. Lions ruin enough of my weekends already.
January 14th, 2018 at 12:15 PM ^
That's fair. I'll grant you that Tennessee also has bad ownership of a different type.
That doesn't, in any way, offer any evidence of the quality of the Lions' ownership.
January 14th, 2018 at 12:31 PM ^
Quinn has full autonomy on football matters. Anything that says otherwise is a lie. The Fords don’t do anything anymore.
January 14th, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
+1 for "Gobsmacked" which is my absolute favorite British word. Even better than "Blimey."
January 14th, 2018 at 9:28 AM ^
Good news. I'm more concerned with Quinn seemingly demanding to keep JBC as OC. Heard this as a topic on 97.1 at some point, can anyone confirm that?
You just never know on head coaches but anyone who's been on the BB staff for years.... I'm good with.
January 14th, 2018 at 10:13 AM ^
But Stafford was the one who publicly said he wanted to keep JBC as the OC. I'd imagine Quinn would have talked to Patricia about keeping JBC, but I do not think Quin was demanding Patricia to keep him. He might prefer ifhe did, but I think the decision is Patricia's