January 8th, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
They are laced with THC today... so instead of sleeping18 hours today... it's up to 22 hours.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/01/08/bears-hire-matt-nagy-head-coach/
"Bears general manager Ryan Pace and team brass interviewed Nagy on Sunday, a day after the Chiefs were eliminated in a 22-21 loss to the Titans in the wild-card round. He’s the 16th head coach in franchise history and takes over one week after the Bears fired John Fox following his 14-34 record across a three-year tenure."
January 8th, 2018 at 12:32 PM ^
I hope he can coach the Bears to close out games better than he could with the Chiefs....
January 8th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^
Seems like a good hire. Better than Patricia to the Lions for sure. Lions poised to fall back to last in the division with the young talent and draft picks of the Bears.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
What would a good hire for the Lions look like?
January 8th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:46 PM ^
An offensive mind and certainly someone from a coaching tree whose other members haven't consistently failed once leaving the nest.
January 8th, 2018 at 1:04 PM ^
a smart coach who can think quick on his feet and is a good leader. A good DC who fits that bill will hire a good OC. A good OC who fit this bill will hire a good DC. I don't see the difference the key is strong leadership and overall football smarts.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:45 PM ^
You make it sound so easy!
January 8th, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
Like Nick Saban, Bill O'Brien, and Kirk Ferentz? Outside of Belichick, few directly from Parcells' coaching tree have panned out and until recently, only John Harbaugh was successful from the Andy Reid one.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
Tom Coughlin won exactly the same number of super bowls as Parcells. Sean Peyton may be on the way to his 2nd.
How successful is "successful"?
January 8th, 2018 at 1:54 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^
The guy on the right.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
Nope.
Even a Harbaugh would fail working for the Lions.
The common denominator from Monte Clark -> Jim Caldwell is THE FORDS!!!
January 8th, 2018 at 3:01 PM ^
Jim Caldwell did not fail coaching the Lions. He led the team to the highest level of sustained success since like 1991 thru 1995. He has the highest winning percentage as a Lions coach since 1956, outside of an interim stint by Gary Moeller in 2000.
He stabalized an instable franchise, and is basically moving on so the current GM can pick his guy.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^
...this isn't saying much. "He has the highest winning percentage as a Lions coach since 1956"
However, when you look at the talent on the Lions team, in comparison to several of the other playoff teams, you have to believe that not making the playoffs is a disappointment, at the very least. Losing to that Cincinnatti team was unforgivable, whether you want to call it failure or not and I'm glad they decided to go in a new direction.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:26 PM ^
Yep... one playoff win in 60 years.
Even the CLEVELAND BROWNS have more playoff success than the Lions!
Tampa has WON a superbowl in that time -- after going 0-14.
Cincy, has been to the Super Bowl twice in that time. TWICE.
Just face it. People need to take off the Honolulu blue glasses and face that the Lions are the worst run professional sports franchise in North America.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:35 PM ^
January 9th, 2018 at 8:32 AM ^
They have been poorly ran for decades, but if you don't see the difference between that and what Martha Ford/Bob Quinn/Jim Caldwell have done, then you are too set in your mindset to view the actual world. This franchise has a base, a structure now. Going 10 years without getting to .500 on the season is not going to happen anytime soon. 0-16 is far far away. Going 4-12 one season after going 10-6 isn't going to happen again.
January 9th, 2018 at 9:39 AM ^
Like I said, take off the tinted glasses.
If you think the Lions don't have glaring holes at RB, LB, OL, and the secondary, you are completely delusional.
Those same holes have been there for years. It's didn't happen overnight.
The Lions reached this year. It was the first time in decades they swept the division on the road. They usually drop a couple of those. Slide those games from the win column to the loss column and what do you have??? 7-9 Lions. Tah dah!
In 2017, the Lions were losing late to the Browns. They got creamed by Baltimore and NO and dropped several other games to playoff teams. Meet you back here when the Lions regress to their 6-10 or 7-9 mean in 2018 so you can tell me more bullshit about Ford and Quinn.
January 8th, 2018 at 4:31 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
January 9th, 2018 at 8:28 AM ^
I'm glad they are going in a new direction as well. I do not believe Caldwell is a top tier coach in this league, or that he could get us to the next level of competing for and winning meaningful things (divisions/playoff games).
But to write him off as a failure when he is the best coach we've had since Wayne Fontes, and maybe further back than that, seems silly and ungrateful. Just being stable, even if it is average, is a step in the right direction for this franchise.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:02 PM ^
Again! What is with today?
January 8th, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
I heard the Chiefs started winning when Andy Reid gave up play calling duties.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
The OC knows the offense and has learned from the HC, at the very least. At most the OC is the one actually calling the plays. Nagy was also a QB and should help develop Trubisky. Even if Reid is entirely in charge, Nagy has at least learned from Reid.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
...having lost 6 of their previous 7, Reid turned the play calling over to Nagy and they ended the season with 4 straight wins to make the playoffs.
https://arrowheadaddict.com/2017/12/03/andy-reid-allows-matt-nagy-call-…
January 8th, 2018 at 12:45 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
Can someone please explain to me the allure of Matt Patricia? Is it just because he's a Belichek guy?
I'd be deeply concerned about the quality of his defenses while he's been in NE, which have usually been anywhere from meh to awful. He's only got Super Bowl rings because of Tom Brady and what the other side of the ball has been able to accomplish. He's just been along for the ride.
I wouldn't want the guy just because he's coached under Belichek.
January 8th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
I am no fan of either the Lions or the Patriots, but the Pats D is consistently one of the most underrated units in the league. Everyone wants to make it out how bad they were this season, but after a rough start, they ended up 5th in scoring D. They have literally been a top 10 scoring defense every year since 2011, including the #1 overall defense last year.
January 8th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
Yup, and there's not a lot of talent on their defense. Kyle Van Noy is a starter there after barely seeing the field in Detroit and the rest of their front seven is a bunch of young guys.
January 8th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
Bob Quinn knows him, which is probably what allures him.
The Patriots Bio (not including this current season):
Since moving to coach the Patriots on defense in 2006, the team has finished in the top-10 in fewest points allowed in 10 of his 11 seasons with the defense. Patricia's 2016 defense finished as the No. 1 scoring defense in the NFL by allowing only 15.6 points per game. The six rushing touchdowns allowed by his defense were fewest in the league last season. Patricia has also helped the Patriots lead the NFL in turnover differential in 2012 (+25) and 2010 (+28) and finished first in the AFC in 2011 (+17). The plus-28 turnover differential in 2010 is tied with the 2011 San Francisco 49ers for the second highest single-season differential in the NFL since 1970.It doesn't seem like a bad resume. Not a great either. Idk. Allure to me is that he has been with the Patriots for 14 years, is still young, and has coached in/won multiple Super Bowls. Ex-player. Seems intelligent.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:53 PM ^
Nagy was OC in name only except for the last 5 weeks. So hiring a guy who was actually a coordinator for five weeks is a better move then hiring Patricia who has been a D coordinator for six seasons and also worked as an assistant to Dante Scarnecchia who is a very good Oline coach for the Pats. Interesting take and I realize that Pats coordinators have not been successful moving on to HC gigs.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:10 PM ^
exactly! also, it's hard to truly judge until Patricia brings his own staff in.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 2:06 PM ^
seems like a bold claim. We just saw Nagy's offense go totally stagnet once they lost Kelce. Not to mention, against the titans, which has not been great this season. It seems like after the success of the Rams and McVay, this may be the trend to go out and hire a young gun. I personally like the Patricia hire and could give a shit about his "sloppy" apearance.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 12:38 PM ^
Did anyone else have to google this guy? I had no idea who he was.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:47 PM ^
I was hoping it was Angels pitching coach Charles Nagy. Going for that cross-sport type of thing.
January 8th, 2018 at 2:04 PM ^
Interesting thought, although his schedule would absolutely blow from basically late July until the end of September - longer if the Angels made the postseason. I guess the Angels would have to schedule most of the teams from the Midwest during this time to allow him time to get to Chicago and back as easily as possible.
January 8th, 2018 at 8:22 PM ^
cross-sport, moneyball kind of thing. Worked out great for them.
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/01/05/browns-hire-former-mlb-…
I guess it really wouldn't have mattered where they got their front office personnel; be it cricket, mls, nascar, jai-alai, makes no difference with them.
January 8th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
I googled Nagy and all I saw was a picture of my Ex Wife!!!!! AMIRITE!??! Bud dum dum CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
January 8th, 2018 at 1:30 PM ^
January 8th, 2018 at 2:54 PM ^
You mean like this:
It must suck to be a msu fan and live in a place called The Wolverine State
— † Wolverine Devotee (@UMichWD) January 8, 2018
I mean, it must suck to be an msu fan in general, but that must really bother them
January 8th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
Keeps you firmly on the pulse of most of what is going on in the NFL. KC's offensive production took a major nose dive, after they started 5-0, and they were on their way to missing the playoffs. Reid turned the offensive play calling over to Nagy, their offensive production improving drastically and they won the final 4 games.