so much stupid here
it won't be exclusively his fault, no
i think by all accounts caldwell is a great dude
i don't want him as the head coach of the team i support
i really wanted a slam dunk hire, for once, in the history of the fucking organization, and i got gentleman jim caldwell
again, no idea why i expected anything better; in the lions long history, with 26 head coaches overall, they have had 7 with winning records, so why hire a winner now? the most successful lions coaching tenure since 1972 was interim coach gary moeller going 7-4 to close the 2000 season. everyone else has been below .500.
but i should be counting my blessings as a lions fan
FUCK. THIS. SHIT.
Simmer down, sweetie. We're talking the goddamned Lions, not Niners or Steelers or Patriots. It's not there's some tidal wave of great history that's being disrupted here. Detroit's first choice said no thanks. That should tell you there's something more at work. I can't say if this will or will not work but I can say that whatever Caldwell achieves in Detroit will always be a step below whatever his haters allege they expected. Detroit has some major talent and needs a players coach to get through and bring it together. Caldwell is that type of coach. Will it work in Detroit? Probably not. And he'll take the blame. So I'm not sure what is "so much stupid" as much as it's frustration.
And yes, it could be worse. You could be a Browns fan.