As he took the reigns as Detroit Lions head coach in 2021, many national pundits would have called Dan Campbell another failed hire by a woebegone franchise before he ever coached a game. But it turns out his alluding to "knee cap biting" was a metaphor for the tone he was intent on setting, and now the jokes are on those who doubted him in that moment (and many acknowledge it now).
When it came down to it, poor hires at the general manager level begat bad head coaching hires. Those bad hires culminated in not having nearly enough good players, and of course losing piles of games year after year.