On Tuesday, the Detroit Lions announced that head coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn would retain their jobs into 2020, despite the 9-20-1 record the two have accumulated since the beginning of the 2018 season.
It’s obviously an unpopular decision, and ownership knew it when they talked to the media this week.
“(Changing coaches) would have been the popular choice, the popular decision, and we knew that,” Sheila Ford Hamp, daughter of owner Martha Ford, said. ”But as I say, we’re doing what is right for the organization.”
I’ve sat on the fence about this one for a while.