I'm not contributing to whatever is hindering Caldwell, but at this point he's the Tyrod Taylor of coaching candidates. Yeah he's not bad but if nobody believes they can win a Superbowl with him, hiring him then signals to the fanbase that they're not serious about winning. At this stage I don't know what Caldwell can do to change people's minds.
Also, how many NFL coaches have you seen manage to get a third HC gig? Usually after the second one, you either remain a coordinator or you're done altogether.
As for Bienemy, at a certain point, I'm surprised nobody has hired Bienemy on some "even if he sucks, y'all can't rip me for the hire cuz you woulda did it too" type shyt.
Thanks, you get it. Damn near all of us Lions breatheren understood that Caldwell had to go. The record was fugazi at the end of the day. We backed I to wins at times, there was rarely a time outside of 2014 that we just put the beats on a team out the gate and it stayed that way for four quarters. I called for Caldwell's job all four years, on this very board which is a search away for anyone wanting to validate it. We get it, most of y'all don't watch lions games but for those of us that suffer through them, we could tell you the following.
We didn't cry when he got fired.
He did a lot of dumb shyt like the play call for the hail mary Aaron Rodgers threw against us and that back and forth kind of thing.
For being an offensive guy, we always came out in the third quarter flat, i.e. lack of adjustments.
We always had penalties with having 11 men on the field.
So, they see the record of 36-28 and go, wtf are the lions doing, especially when the franchise is riddled with futility. However, most of us Lions fans on this board watched those 64 games for the sum of their individual totals and we saw that where water found its level was to be barely above average with Caldwell. The only person that we would have been willing to fight for during that regime was Teryl Austin, the DC who turned water into wine during his entire tenure.
