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Ricky Jean Francois: "The only way you get a different culture . . ."
Change. That seems like a necessary element for a team that has been a perennial loser for many decades.
Carlos Monarrez of the Detroit Free Press writes:
Ricky Jean Francois, the veteran defensive tackle and the oracle of Allen Park, had clearly had enough Sunday after the Lions’ latest disappointing loss, a 27-9 defeat that dropped the team to 5-10.
“I think I heard Gandhi say this in a book I read: ‘The only way you can change a culture is you’ve got to change the people within in.’
“You want to change the culture, change the people. I’m not finger-pointing on who needs to change or who needs to go somewhere. But if you want a different regime, you want a different buy-in or something like that, the only way you get a different culture is you change the people that sit in it.”
The question is: What does change look like?
Does that mean getting rid of Matt Stafford? General Manager Bob Quinn? Coach Matt Patricia?
Or does it really mean getting rid of the team owners, the Ford family, which has been the most consistent presence for decades?
Time will tell.
