Allen Park — Sometimes it’s what he says. Sometimes it’s what he does. But mostly, it’s that he does what he says, and he means it.
That’s why the players swear by a coach who never curses, and why the Lions still get fired up about following their stoic leader, no matter what the fans might think of Jim Caldwell or how the media grapples with him.
It’s also part of the reason why, at least in some unseen and soft-spoken ways, the Lions are in the position they’re in now, in first place in their division and playing well in December — something that rarely happened before Caldwell arrived in Detroit.