Coach Jim Caldwell
The Lion look like a lousy college team. They're embarrassing. Pathetic.
Bob Wojnowski says it's time to start using the four letter word F-I-R-E. He thinks Lions coach Jim Caldwell and general manager Martin Mayhew should get the ax.
He writes:
The Lions are a punch line and a punching bag again, and the next move has to be the big one. Jim Caldwell and Martin Mayhew should not survive this disaster, with the Lions 1-7 after soiling a football field on another continent, losing to the Chiefs, 45-10, Sunday in London.
If you fire one, you have to fire the other, so the only issue should be the timing. Caldwell could be dismissed immediately, with the Lions heading into a bye, and replaced by defensive coordinator Teryl Austin. I’d do the complete front-office purge at the end of the season, because right now you have no idea who would lead the search for a new regime. Any firing makes a strong case for accountability, but it has to be part of a real plan.
That’s where we enter the great unknown. Martha Ford, who made the trip to London, is in charge and presumably angry, although she rarely talks to the media. Just canning another coach isn’t the entire answer. Nothing truly changes until something substantive changes at the top. It’s a tired lament, I know, and there’s no sign Ford, 90, is interested in selling the team she’s controlled since her husband’s passing 20 months ago.
