We had to know it was happening. So many decisions made by the Lions recently had the look and feel of being intelligently thought out. Things like, hiring Quinn, A guy not from the inside, whose entire career has been spent moving up the ranks with a winning organization. And hiring Ernie Accorsi to be the right hand man of our rookie team president. Well thought out decisions. And then this...
Keeping Caldwell for another year. This stinks of old Lions thinking. This stinks of owner interference. This just stinks.
Caldwell proved without a doubt he is not an average NFL coach in his two seasons with the Lions. His game management has always been laughable and that continued here in Detroit on multiple occasions. Things like the Green Bay hail mary defense fiasco should never happen to any NFL coach. Ever. Seriously, how is your best pass rusher (Ziggy) 20 yards down the field defending the sideline? That one play alone was grounds to fire the man.
Now we are stuck with his vacant stare on the sideline for yet another season. We shouldn't be surprised, this is the Lions after all and this is exactly Lionesque.
update: Keeping a coach that has always been a choke artist with horrible game management for the sake of consistency is a recipe for failure. If you want consistency, you first have to find a coach worth keeping around, then you stick with him. Caldwell is NOT worth keeping around.
Update: Matt Bowen on what the Lions should have done. When ex-players are calling out your atrocious schemes.....
Typical Lions would have been to fire Caldwell.... The 9th firing in 16 years. Typical Lions would have been to blame the lack of success on the coaching and not the GM/FO. Typical Lions use kneejerk, emotional reactions to make decisions... and those decisions are used to coverup mistakes.
ReplyDeleteQuinn is doing the exact opposite.
I have no doubt that many others would agree with you. I am absolutely not one of them. Caldwell is not a winner. He chokes when it matters most and he has done it his entire career. His two seasons here are clear proof of that. His teams win in-spite of him not because of him.
DeleteIt is good to hear from you CLF. I hope all is well in your life brother :D
DeleteDoing well. Hope you're doing the same!
DeleteAs Always, I wish you to be 100% wrong. :)
Great to hear brother! Everything is going well too, thanks for asking.
DeleteI hope I am wrong too. I want to win a SB in my lifetime.
While I share your concerns re Caldwell I suspect right now we are a 500 team maybe less if CJ retires which I think he will and probably should. Once retirement enters a players mind due to injury concerns I suspect he's not gonna be the same player. Reading quotes (between the lines) I suspect he knows players throughout the league better than HC candidates other than Pats staff. He appears to be prioritizing evaluating and upgrading the scouting system and staff while he perhaps becomes more familiar with the TA's, Chudzinski's, Bevell's etc and views Caldwell as an adequate placeholder. Long term he may be right. Finger's crossed. I hope Quinn works out because they went about it the right way for a change. Fact is though most GM's fail and going about it the right way is still no guarantee by any means.
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