While former head coach Matt Patricia failed to beat the Chicago Bears in five tries, interim coach Darrell Bevell swooped in and beat them on the first try.
Now media outlets are alluding to a culture change in Detroit and some new energy. Ty Schalter of FiveThiryEight explains this is actually a pretty common trend.
“The NFL’s three active interim head coaches — Bevell, Morris and the Houston Texans’ Romeo Crennel — are 9-7 on the season with a plus-63 scoring differential. The Lions, Falcons and Texans went 4-16 under their original coaches, and they were outscored by 161 points in the process,” he writes.