With Bob Quinn in place for the Lions as the team’s new general manager the first order of business would undoubtedly be head coach Jim Caldwell and his uncertain status heading into the 2016 season.
Is the head coach whose endeared himself to Martha Ford safe?
Not according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport who reports that Quinn will meet with Caldwell and that ‘it doesn’t look good for him’.
#Lions coach Jim Caldwell will meet with team brass, including GM Bob Quinn. Despite the finish, it doesn't look good for him. No firm word.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) January 11, 2016
The support for Caldwell revolves around again him being a popular figure with ownership but it also resides in the fact that he has the best two-year record of any Lions head coach in the team’s history. Then again the ire for Caldwell could focus on him not coming into a team that was in a rebuild mode or the simple fact that his coaching (or lack there of) perhaps sacrificed a trip of the playoffs. Given the run the Lions went on at the end of the season, properly defending the Hail Mary against Green Bay or perhaps raising a bigger issue in Seattle then the Lions could have found themselves playing Wild Card weekend instead of sitting at home watching the Packers move onto the divisional round.
