During Thursday’s Lions-Texans game, color commentator Tony Romo began traveling down the Matt Patricia wormhole. He noted, as the head coach sometimes did during his tenure, that the Lions’ current situation wasn’t really that bad. By spouting that fed-to talking point, he was, of course, unwittingly accusing the previous winning tenure of Jim Caldwell was maybe worse than we’d all assumed.
They had to bring in Matt’s guys. They had to get younger. They had to change the culture. They needed time, don’t you see? It was utterly eyeroll inducing, especially while watching the Lions get flogged by an inferior Texans team, but this is not an indictment of Romo.