Detroit Lions head coach Matt Patricia has had greater than two seasons to show his group into the winners he promised it’d be. 4 video games into his third season on the helm, he doesn’t appear notably near doing that. The Lions are 1-Three they usually allowed the New Orleans Saints to attain 35 unanswered factors towards them on Sunday.

Patricia is at all times stuffed with excuses, and he gave a doozy throughout his information convention following the Lions’ 35-29 loss to the Saints. Right here’s how he answered a query about why anybody ought to consider he’s nonetheless the suitable coach to show the Lions round.

Matt Patricia was requested why individuals ought to nonetheless consider he’s the suitable coach to show the Lions round.

“Once I got here to Detroit, there was plenty of work to do. That’s what we’re making an attempt to do,” he stated. pic.twitter.com/o24DOpATh5

— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) October 4, 2020

“That’s a tough query. We simply misplaced to the Saints. Let’s simply give them credit score for this recreation. They performed extraordinarily effectively and I do know we bought plenty of work to do. I feel once I got here to Detroit, there was plenty of work to do and that’s what we’re making an attempt to do. However, speaking about this yr, we’re speaking about proper now, these first 4 video games and clearly immediately wasn’t adequate.”

Until Patricia is speaking about doing work to actively make the Lions worse, he’s fully stuffed with it. He inherited a 9-7 group that was one recreation away from the playoffs and ran them straight into the bottom. He’s in his third season as Lions head coach and the group appears to be getting progressively worse with each recreation.

Former Lions backup quarterback Dan Orlovsky, now an analyst for ESPN, ripped Patricia a brand new one when he appeared on the “Keyshawn, JWill & Zubin” present Monday morning.

“To return in and say that you just had plenty of work to do is totally false. It’s a bunch of trash!”

Former Lions QB @danorlovsky7 RIPPED head coach Matt Patricia for his post-game feedback about what the group was like that he inherited from Jim Caldwell. #KJZ pic.twitter.com/TigGSjI2WY

— Keyshawn, JWill & Zubin (@KeyJayandZ) October 5, 2020

“We had been 11-5 in 2014 and a very good soccer group. In 2015, we go 7-9, it’s as a result of we turned the soccer over. However the final eight video games, we had been (6-2). So flipped our season round. Subsequent two years, we’re 9-7 and I consider in Week 17 we had been taking part in Inexperienced Bay for an opportunity to win the division. OK? So, to return in and say you had plenty of work to do is totally false. It’s a bunch of trash, as a result of that wasn’t the case in Detroit.

“We had been a superb soccer group. Matthew Stafford was taking part in pretty much as good as he has in his profession — that was due to Coach [Jim] Caldwell. And we had been a company that was ascending. He was constructing. The tradition was wonderful. The tradition was unbelievable. So that you had a profitable file in three out of 4 years, the tradition was nice, your quarterback was taking part in actually good soccer. So for him to return in and say there was plenty of work to be accomplished is a bunch of trash.”

You possibly can’t sum it up significantly better than that. Orlovsky’s opinion was backed up by an eyewitness to each the Caldwell and Patricia eras, retired security Glover Quin.

When will Patricia run out of possibilities?

Patricia’s been on the new seat so lengthy that every one his pants should be burnt to a crisp. But he continues to get likelihood after likelihood though he’s didn’t make the Lions visibly higher in any manner.

The group’s dedication to Patricia is much more baffling when you think about why Patricia’s predecessor, Jim Caldwell, was fired. Caldwell was let go in the beginning of 2018 when he didn’t take the Lions to the playoffs after a 9-7 season. On the time, normal supervisor Bob Quinn stated that 9 wins was not adequate. Through mlive.com:

“We didn’t beat the actually good groups,” Quinn stated after the very first query following the choice. “Our file was above common. We’re 9-7 the final two years, however our file towards the higher groups within the league has not been that good.”

Until Quinn meant that 9 wins was truly far too many for the Lions, Patricia has accomplished nothing however fail miserably as a head coach. Everybody appears to see it apart from the Lions’ entrance workplace and Patricia himself.

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Lions head coach Matt Patricia is doing a horrible job, however the entrance workplace hasn’t appeared to note or care. (Photograph by Nic Antaya/Getty Photographs)

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