ALLEN PARK, Mich. – It’s been three years of failure, of 10-plus-loss seasons, of a lack of continuity and consistency, and once again, the Detroit Lions are back essentially where they started -- trying to find a winner.
Now they seek a head coach and general manager to take this beleaguered franchise and make it something more than mediocre at best. Matt Patricia and Bob Quinn were supposed to be the people to do this. At least so the Lions thought. Instead, the duo set the franchise back.
To understand how the Lions reached this point -- with another regime change and a defense that set franchise records for points allowed (519) and yards allowed (6,716) -- one has to dig back further than Patricia and Quinn, the two architects of Detroit’s current mess of its own making.