Quinn, and Patricia, should be on the hot seat here. They probably aren’t; I presume they’ll get another season next year almost regardless of what happens this year. But they should be.
Despite Quinn’s mid-round successes in the draft: Golladay, Hand, Walker, Agnew … he has some big-time whiffs at the top of the draft. Teez Tabor, and Jarrad Davis is trending that way. Davis can’t do pass coverage, played downhill at Florida, and Tavai (who I’d place on the ‘disappointment’ side of the ledger at this early juncture) is filling that downhill role. So with Davis it’s like The Two Bobs in the movie Office Space, “What would you say it is you do here?”
Taylor Decker probably doesn’t deserve a second contract.
The rest of the first-, second-, third-round pics just are kinda meh. They’re OK.
Kerryon Johnson was a fumbling, regressed disappointment before he got injured. Again.
Connected, and importantly, Patricia was brought in to be a defensive guru. The defense isn’t good.
Quinn has invested the most attention, draft and free agent capital in the offensive line and defensive line. Neither one is good.
It’s year four. Should Quinn not be evaluated on this?
To attempt to buy more time, is Quinn going to try to blame Patricia for not using and developing the players in the right way, as Millen once did when he fired Mariucci? I thought Quinn and Patricia were aligned in a way that a GM and coach rarely are?
Several of you have talked about how the schedule is going to improve now, and the wins might start coming. That in its own way is dismaying, as the Lions just never handle expectations. They win when it’s easy and means less.
Basically, I’m moving to results-oriented mode with Quinn. In much the same way I did with Stafford last season. No more excuses. Results. Or accountability.