The amount of current and former players who publicly celebrated the dismissal of Matt Patricia and Bob Quinn last fall was telling, and Detroit Lions president Rod Wood said Wednesday that living through the Quinntricia era helped the organization reset expectations for what it wanted culturally in its football program.
Wood stopped short of saying things had grown "toxic" under Patricia, as one reporter suggested, but he made it clear the Lions wanted to change both the way they went about business and the results on they produced on the field.
“I’m not going to comment on the perception of the prior culture and whatever it’s labeled," Wood said.