Maybe it’s the old quarterback in him. Or maybe it’s the nearly quarter-century he has spent as football coach, from tiny Westmar University in LeMars, Iowa, to his current role as an NFL offensive coordinator in Detroit.
But one of Darrell Bevell’s greatest gifts, it turns out, is his ability to forget.
“My wife will attest to this, but I have this ability just to flush things,” Bevell said Wednesday, laughing, as he and the Lions wrapped up an offseason that was unlike any I can recall. “I think she calls it ‘purge and dump.’”