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Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News For his entire career, through all the franchise’s struggles, Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford has never wavered — Detroit is where he wants to be.  But with a pending rebuild looming following the firing of general manager Bob Quinn and coach Matt Patricia, Stafford is taking a wait-and-see approach regarding

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News It wasn’t what Darrell Bevell thought he’d be doing on Monday afternoon. Instead of reviewing the previous week’s game and getting the game plan ready for the next opponent, Bevell was given a bigger set of responsibilities this week. After the Lions parted ways with Matt Patricia on Saturday, Bevell

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News The Detroit Lions will get another opportunity to play in front of a national television audience before the end of the season. On Monday, the league announced the team’s Week 16 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has been moved to Saturday, Dec. 26.  The 1 p.m. game will air

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News It will probably be another six weeks or so before the Detroit Lions make the decision, but the first domino to fall in the franchise’s leadership overhaul will be the selection of a new general manager.  The team fired Bob Quinn on Saturday, in the middle of his fifth

Steve Megaree  |  Associated Press Green Bay, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers helped the Green Bay Packers get another big win against the rival Chicago Bears and move closer to their second straight NFC North title. Rodgers threw four touchdown passes as the Packers rolled to a 41-25 victory over the slumping Bears on Sunday night. Green

John Niyo   | The Detroit News There will be a lot of talk about package deals in the weeks ahead as the Lions begin another search for a new general manager and head coach following their latest purge in Detroit. Now that the franchise has cut loose Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia with two-plus years remaining

Mark Long  |  Associated Press Jacksonville, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars fired general manager Dave Caldwell on Sunday after the team’s 10th consecutive loss, sending a clear message that the small-market franchise is headed in a new direction. It was a move many thought owner Shad Khan should have made at the end of last

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Saturday’s news of Lions team owner Sheila Ford Hamp parting ways with head coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn spread quickly. Although there wasn’t much reaction from current Lions players, there was plenty from former players who played under head coach Jim Caldwell. Many of them left the

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Video: Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp answers Wojo’s questions about team’s future Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp answers Wojo’s question about team’s future after the firing of GM Bob Quinn and coach Matt Patricia. No NFL general manager is perfect. Far from it, actually. There

Detroit News  |  The Detroit News It was pretty much universal. The Lions didn’t fare much better with national media reaction compared to Detroit football fans, who expressed frustration and disappointment with another wasted season in comments on The Detroit News’ Instagram accounts. Here’s what NFL analysts had to say about the firing of general manager Bob

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News Matt Patricia’s tenure with the Lions will be remembered for its futility, especially with the high standards that marked its arrival. With his pedigree coming from the Patriots’ championship stock, Patricia looked to be the answer for the Lions’ woes that have spanned generations of fans. Instead, his 13-29-1

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News The Lions kick-started another regime change Saturday afternoon, firing general manager Bob Quinn and coach Matt Patricia.  And while the team will operate with interims in those roles for the remainder of the 2020 campaign, focus will quickly shift to what’s next for the downtrodden franchise.  Admittedly, a general manager

Rod Beard   | The Detroit News With team owner Sheila Ford Hamp’s decision Saturday to move on from coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn, the Lions ended another chapter of coaching futility that has marked the past 30-plus years. Spanning the last 10 tenures of head coaches, the Lions notably have had just

Bob Wojnowski   | The Detroit News Show Caption Hide Caption Video: Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp answers Wojo’s questions about team’s future Lions owner Sheila Ford Hamp answers Wojo’s question about team’s future after the firing of GM Bob Quinn and coach Matt Patricia. It had gone on long enough, longer than enough, actually. Another

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News The Lions made sweeping changes on Saturday, firing general manager Bob Quinn and coach Matt Patricia. But team president Rod Wood, he’s not going anywhere.  Owner Sheila Ford Hamp confirmed the family’s longtime financial adviser, who replaced Tom Lewand as team president in 2015, will continue to serve in

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News The hiring of Matt Patricia was supposed to get the Lions off the hamster wheel of mediocrity and elevate the team to a perennial contender. Instead, it proved to be a disastrous marriage that has sent the franchise tumbling back to its all-to-familiar residence at the bottom of the NFL standings. 

John Niyo   | The Detroit News When it’s this bad, and getting worse, you can point to just about any moment and frame it as a fireable offense. For most Lions fans, it happens once or twice every week, at least. But here was another Thursday, in the fourth quarter of what could be —

Nolan Bianchi   | The Detroit News Detroit — It wasn’t a display to be proud of. Especially not in front of a national audience, on a holiday that’s as intertwined with football as the Thanksgiving turkey itself. The Detroit Lions choked on their own mistakes before most folks watching at home had the chance to

John Niyo   | The Detroit News When it’s this bad, and getting worse, you can point to just about any moment and frame it as a fireable offense. For most Lions fans, it happens once or twice every week, at least. But here was another Thursday, in the fourth quarter of what could be —

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News Detroit — Stick a fork in this Detroit Lions team, it’s done.  This time, a national-television audience got a firsthand look at Detroit’s ineptitude in a 41-25 Thanksgiving Day thrashing at the hand of the Houston Texans.    The defeat, the team’s fourth in five games, now shifts the focus to owner