Detroit Lions special team coordinator Dave Fipp is quite the storyteller. Ask him any question, and there’s a 20% chance he’ll go off on a tangent, recanting a lesson he’s learned in his life or a memory from 20 years ago.
Sunday’s game against the San Francisco 49ers will be a homecoming of sorts for Fipp. Not only did Fipp grow up in California, but he coached at Cal Poly, San Jose State, and his first crack at the NFL was with—you guessed it the 49ers back in 2008 as the team’s assistant special teams coach.