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The Lions announced on Tuesday that they were keeping head coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn for their third and fifth years on the job, respectively.
With a soft playoff mandate intact, owner Martha Ford is creating a gentler form of accountability than Jim Caldwell ever saw during his tenure there. Regardless, a pair of much-speculated names have been removed from the offseason coaching and executive churn. With a constantly dwindling pipeline and a few teams poised to make high-risk college hires this offseason, perhaps the familiar is preferable to starting over.