If Bob Quinn was smiling as he walked through the Lions’ locker room, it was hard to tell. The Lions’ general manager was busy, no doubt, assessing the list of injuries that seemed to mount Sunday just as Aaron Rodgers was trying to mount another one of his epic comebacks.
But this was a good day for Quinn and the team he’s trying to build in Detroit, even beyond the final result — a 31-23 victory over the division rival Packers at Ford Field.
It was another validation for some of the moves he’s made here, before and after hiring his own head coach, Matt Patricia, to run the team.