This is an opinion piece from MLive.com's Kyle Meinke.
DETROIT -- The Lions won more often under Jim Caldwell than any other coach in the Super Bowl era. And then they fired him.
With a move like that, the message was clear. Being kinda good is no longer good enough.
"I just thought we were middle of the road," GM Bob Quinn told WJR at the outset of camp. "Middle of the road was kind of OK here."
So Caldwell was out, and Matt Patricia was in. The bar was raised. And by that standard, it's hard to call the start of his tenure anything other than an unmitigated disaster.