Detroit Lions: With the pressure on, did Bob Quinn nail free agency?

Bob Quinn addressed some needs in free agency, but heading towards a must-win season, was he able to do enough for the Detroit Lions?

The pressure is on Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn. This is it, win now or advance to the unemployment line. Anything less than contention next season is a failure.

So as we try to analyze how Bob Quinn did during the legal tampering period and the subsequent free agent signings that began yesterday afternoon, we need to first realize that the league’s new bargaining agreement may have saved Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia’s professional life in Motown already.

The key point of the new league agreement that may have saved Quinn’s job before we’ve even gotten to the draft is this; part of the agreement is playoff expansion. Two extra teams will get to join in the postseason fun next year, which means that the criteria for making the playoffs has just been lowered, which also means unless the Lions begin the season 1-8 or 2-7, they will most likely have one or two meaningful games in December.

By the letter of Martha Firestone Ford’s edict, that would be enough for Quinn and Patricia to keep their jobs. Just let that sink in a little. The chances are already very good that Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia have saved their jobs. And that was before they started their free agency shopping.

Now certainly another injury to Matthew Stafford or the defense refusing to actually look like they are willing to participate in games again could still get Quinn and Patricia a one-way ticket on the pink slip express, but the odds are actually in the favor of this regime keeping their jobs.

With that being said, the best we can hope for is that they actually find a way to field a contender next season and at least earn a reprise, instead of it being handed to them by circumstances that they had nothing to do with.