Detroit — The Lions opted for the cheap, easy route, which is not a surprise. Rather than change a failing regime, they’re changing the narrative, rewinding to a rebuild, and giving Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia another shot to get it right.
Do Patricia and Quinn deserve the chance to clean up their 9-20-1 mess of the past two seasons? Nope, not by any reasonable measure, not with the available evidence, not after Patricia took over a 9-7 team that was supposed to contend. But this is what the Fords do — a lot of silly spinning and not nearly enough winning.