Detroit Lions: Will the coaching carousel bring more offensive thrills?

Speaking of George Godsey, the former quarterbacks coach for the Lions has headed south, which quite frankly with the weather we’re experiencing right now isn’t such a bad idea. Godsey will join the Miami Dolphins staff as the tight ends coach.

Perhaps he’ll have more luck there than he did tutoring Matthew Stafford last season.

While this move is considered just a part of the usual coaching carousel that occurs during the NFL’s offseason, let’s be honest, Stafford struggled mightily this season and while everyone put all the blame on Jim Bob Cooter, Godsey was the quarterbacks coach.

I don’t think that went unnoticed by Matt Patricia.

The response to that departure which was announced on Tuesday, was Patricia hiring former Houston Texans quarterback coach Sean Ryan yesterday. Which brings me back to the point I made a minute ago about Godsey’s performance this season not going unnoticed.

Godsey’s path through the NFL has included being an offensive assistant, then tight ends coach in New England before moving on to the Houston Texans as their quarterback coach then offensive coordinator.

He joined the Lions under Jim Caldwell with the title of defensive assistant & special projects coach in 2017, before Patricia elevated him back to quarterbacks coach this season, which obviously didn’t work out.

I don’t have any official scoop that Godsey was told he should be looking at the want ads, but even if the process of Patricia finding his new quarterbacks coach went quickly, it still had to have been in progress for a little bit of time.

Next will be the hiring of a new running backs coach since David Walker has announced that he is ‘retiring’ from coaching for family reasons.

Now whether that is accurate or Patricia simply wants to upgrade that coaching position as well, we will once again be hearing the news of a new face joining the Lions coaching staff soon.

Which brings us to the very point of all this movement; the Lions offense was just about as impotent as possible this season. Stafford was terrible, the play calling was atrocious and any attempts to stretch the field seemed to have been removed from the playbook.

Plain and simple, watching the Lions offense this season could very well cause blindness or insanity. If not both.