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Detroit Lions coaching controversies overblown: On tipping plays and losing players

The Detroit Lions were not a well-coached team on Monday. Let’s get that out of the way right up top. I gave the coaching an F in my weekly report card, because of curious personnel decisions, and just straight up incompetence that showed itself not just on Monday night, but throughout the entire preseason, too.

But this week has already produced a couple of coaching controversies in the media, and most of it is hot air. They are specific narratives that Lions fans can cling to and blame for everything that happened on Monday night vs.