Lions Counterpoint: What Should The Team Do With Matt Patricia?

I like that thank Colton for writing his counterpoint ‘Letting Matt Patricia go would be the right move for Lions’ to my original ‘Firing Matt Patricia Prematurely Would Be A Huge Setback For Lions’ piece.  The Detroit Lions head coaching debate continues.

But it was a counterpoint, so though I enjoyed reading it and thought it was well written…beyond the parts where he was quoting myself…I disagreed with almost the entire written body of the article.  Therefore, I did feel a bit obligated to return the favor for you, the readers of Detroit Jock City.com, and once again guide you upon the correct way of handling this Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia talking point. I say talking point because I don’t think firing Matt Patricia is a situation of reality in Allen Park, yet.

So, Colton starts his case by trying to argue for Jim Caldwell;

Jon is basically arguing that the Lions’ record [Under Jim Caldwell] (and two playoff appearances) were a facade, and the team was not as good as their record indicated.

But folks, I’m not arguing their wins were a facade, they earned the wins… just against losing teams as they were only able to beat (1) team with a winning record. However, I am arguing that even though the Lions under Caldwell were able to back into the playoffs mathematically. They were in no way, shape, or form contenders in the playoffs against the upper echelon teams, just as they proved in every single in all of Caldwell’s four years in Detroit.