The Detroit Lions‘ Matt Patricia sounds much more prepared for the road ahead than he was at the beginning of the journey last season.
The offseason has fallen into place nicely for the Detroit Lions. They have made improvements to their coaching staff, they have signed some key free agents and they are finalizing their preparations for the draft.
All that’s left is for general manager Bob Quinn to select an equally as productive draft class as last year’s and the Lions should be ready to hit the ground running next season.
That is if the talent on this roster is molded correctly and properly orchestrated. In other words, if the new and improved Matt Patricia, which Bob Quinn has claimed he will be, is just that; new and improved.
During the owners’ meeting in Arizona last week, Patricia made the announcement that surprised no one. He basically admitted that last year everything came at him too fast and he wasn’t as prepared as he thought he would be to handle it.
For all the nay-sayers that want to jump up and down proclaiming they knew Patricia would fail, keep this in mind; the journey isn’t over yet.
I think we may all have been dazzled by his pedigree and the fact that he’s literally a rocket scientist. The expectations were that he would seamlessly take on the mantle of the Lions head coach and start winning championships without missing a beat.
I mean, Matt Patricia is pretty much the smartest guy in every room he walks into. There aren’t that many rocket scientists just walking around.
Yet Detroit now has one who is coaching the team that causes more emotional reaction than the cities other three teams combined. Let’s be honest, while seeing the Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons all win championships since 1984, as great a ride as each one was, it’s nothing like it would be if the Lions won the Super Bowl.
Whether you love them or their incessant failures have driven you crazy, the Lions own Detroit.