This sounds familiar. Although Patriots defensive coordinator Matt Patricia was said to prefer the Giants’ head coaching job to the Lions’, ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter tweets that Patricia is expected to become the Lions’ next head coach, as we heard last week.
Patricia, whose defense was quite impressive in New England’s win over the Titans last night, has been a hot head coaching candidate for several years now thanks to his overall body of work with the Pats. Even before the Lions parted ways with former head coach Jim Caldwell, there were plenty of reports linking Patricia to Detroit, as he has a preexisting relationship with Lions GM Bob Quinn stemming from Quinn’s tenure with the Patriots.
And on January 6, it was reported that the Lions would indeed hire Patricia. Just several days later, however, Peter King of TheMMQB.com indicated that Patricia preferred the Giants to the Lions, which threw something of a wrench into this season’s coaching carousel. But Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweets that his understanding all along has been that Patricia would accept the Lions’ job. Indeed, as Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press writes, Detroit would have moved on to other candidates if it did not believe Patricia was coming to the Motor City.
Of course, as New England’s season is not yet over, the Lions and Patricia will have to wait to make things official. Birkett adds (via Twitter) that Patricia is likely to retain Detroit’s incumbent offensive coordinator, Jim Bob Cooter.
Giants? Giant putzes!!! Will be a great coach
Agree on him being a great coach, but it makes a whole lot more sense for the Giants to go offensive-minded coach and draft a QB, since Spags is already on board, don’t you think?
Yeah, but Spags will probably be fired once the new coach is hired. He’ll get to choose his own staff. So Shurmur is probably now the leading candidate for the Giants? Unless they go Schwartz who they haven’t interviewed yet.
Provided that the new coach doesn’t replace him.
Good deal! Pats nation will miss you and McDaniels both! but your moving on to bigger and better good luck in Detroit!!
Let’s see Belichick bring in Rex Ryan as the next DC. An aggressive defense along with the Patriots offense would be dominant for sure! Rex knows defense.
That would be hilarious. I dont think that will happen but if it does, who knows what will happen
That would be gold. They’d have to be the Hard Knocks team regardless of what the rules say.
I’d love to see this, doubt Rex Ryan’s “loud” personality and Belichick’s “quiet” personality would mix well.
Wasnt this a headline 2 weeks ago?
Belicheck will coach Giants