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Former Lions coach Jim Caldwell says general manager Bob Quinn wanted to fire him from the moment Quinn arrived in Detroit in January of 2016.
Caldwell said on the former Lions safety Glover Quin’s podcast that he believes Quinn wanted him from the beginning.
‘I think without question that he was left to his own devices, I probably the day he came in, would be immediately an interview process with him to keep my job,’ ‘Caldwell, via the Detroit Free Press. “And I was thankful I could go on, because I thought we were going in the right direction, I thought we had something pretty special.”
That’s why Quinn Caldwell did not burn away? It seems to have been a combination of the fact that Lions owner Martha Ford was a vocal supporter of Caldwell, and that Quinn’s favorite, Matt Patricia, was on the Patriots coach in the playoffs and would be a few weeks away. have to wait to be interviewed.
Caldwell coached the Lions coach to the playoffs in 2016, saving his job for the year. In 2017, Caldwell’s Lions went 9-7 and missed the playoffs, and Quinn fired him and replaced him with Patricia. Given that back-to-back winning seasons were not enough to save Caldwell’s job, while Quinn Patricia has held on despite being 6-10 in his first year and 3-12-1 in his second, it’s clear Quinn is ready to give Patricia more space than he was willing to give Caldwell.
