One of the most common concerns I’ve seen from Detroit Lions fans regarding the team’s hiring of offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell is that the former Seahawks coach spent 2018 outside of football. After failing to land a job following his firing from Seattle—there were reports he was up for the Colts offensive coordinator job before Josh McDaniels backed out of Indy—Bevell went unemployed. Some worried that year off would make Bevell a little outdated and having to play catch up to today’s NFL.
But according this story from the Detroit Free Press, it appears Bevell spend some of his season away from the NFL trying to make sure he didn’t fall behind.