“It’s a mix of dread and impatience.”
That’s how I described my own feeling two hours before kickoff between the Detroit Lions and the Jacksonville Jaguars. With unsubstantiated reports that head coach Matt Patricia was literally coaching for his job on Sunday, we were all staring down the barrel of a full rebuild.
While I certainly shared the sentiment that that may be exactly what this team needed, the thought of taking another two seasons to get back to competitiveness, while potentially watching Matthew Stafford play in a different uniform, made my stomach churn.