The pressure is on Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn. This is it, win now or advance to the unemployment line. Anything less than contention next season is a failure.
So as we try to analyze how Bob Quinn did during the legal tampering period and the subsequent free agent signings that began yesterday afternoon, we need to first realize that the league’s new bargaining agreement may have saved Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia’s professional life in Motown already.
The key point of the new league agreement that may have saved Quinn’s job before we’ve even gotten to the draft is this; part of the agreement is playoff expansion.