Both on the field and off the field, it’s been a rough season for first-time head coach Matt Patricia. He’s had odd spats with the media in Allen Park, and his football team has essentially been out of the playoff race since early November. For a team that had been relevant for the past few years under Jim Caldwell, this year has been a clear regression to the times in which the Detroit Lions were making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
The latest example of that came on Wednesday. All year, Patricia has been consistently late for his near-daily press conferences with the media.