Sheila Ford Hamp just bought herself time, pulling the plug on coach Matt Patricia and GM Bob Quinn with five weeks left in the NFL season. And it’s a good thing, too, that the Lions’ new controlling owner did that, because she may well need all of it.
There’s a lot of work to do.
But before we get to that, I’ll make clear I’m not exonerating Quinn or Patricia. Until this year, the Lions hadn’t improved in any year, year-over-year, during Quinn’s tenure, and it only was about to happen in 2020 because the team was 3-12-1 in 2019.