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chop 11:13 AM 01-04-2021
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/n...eh/4126140001/


Detroit Lions' upcoming GM, head coach interview schedule revealed
Dave Birkett
Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Lions have a full plate of interviews scheduled for this week, including with the top offensive and defensive assistant coaches on the market.

Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy is interviewing for the Lions head coaching job Monday, Sports Illustrated reported, the first of at least nine coach and GM candidates the team will sit down with over the next seven or so days.

Bieniemy, a former NFL running back, is in his third season as Chiefs offensive coordinator. He does not call plays in Kansas City, but has helped oversee the rise of the NFL's best offense and the development of MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes.

[ Call me crazy but Lions have several reasons for hope in uncertain future ]

Two Lions who played in Kansas City said last week they see Bieniemy excelling as a head coach.

San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh (left) and Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy each has Super Bowl experience and is a candidate for the Detroit Lions head coaching job.
"He’s one of the realest dudes, straight-forward dudes you’re ever going to meet,” linebacker Reggie Ragland said. “So he’s a hell of a coach. I can’t say nothing bad about him and I won’t because he’s a great dude and an excellent coach and an excellent person at the end of the day, too. He loved his players, so I respect him a lot.”

San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator and Dearborn native Robert Saleh will interview with the Lions on Thursday, a person familiar with his schedule told the Free Press.

Saleh, like Bieniemy, is considered a likely candidate to land a head coaching job this offseason. He was considered runner-up for the Cleveland Browns job last year, when he helped the 49ers reach the Super Bowl. This year, the 49ers finished in the top 10 in rushing, passing and total defense despite significant injury problems.

The Atlanta Falcons also are expected to interview both Bieniemy and Saleh, and the New York Jets reportedly requested an interview with Bieniemy.

Along with the Lions, Falcons and Jets, the Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars and Los Angeles Chargers also have openings at head coach, and the Lions, Falcons, Texans, Jaguars, Carolina Panthers and Washington are looking for GMs.

San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh on Sept. 13, 2020, talks to players on the sideline in Santa Clara, Calif.
"I will be very surprised if we don’t lose (Saleh)," 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters Sunday. "I don’t know what’s wrong with people if they don’t hire him. He’s as good as you can get, knows more about football, all three phases, and he’s going to hire the best staff, he knows about players, he knows what they’re talking about, who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. He also knows how to deal with people. I hope everyone’s not very smart and doesn’t hire him so I can keep him, but I’m expecting not to have him."

Interim Lions coach Darrell Bevell also is expected to interview for the full-time job this week, with Sports Illustrated reporting that he will officially interview Tuesday.

The Lions went 1-4 under Bevell after Matt Patricia was fired in late November, but Bevell impressed people in the organization with his leadership ability.

"I was extremely proud of the way he stepped into that situation," Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford said. "It’s a tough one. It’s a tough year to be a coach in the NFL with all the extra COVID stuff going on, all the regulations and all that. I thought he did an outstanding job. He’s a heck of a person, and I think everybody got to realize that. I’m sure you guys did, getting your chances to talk to him a little bit more. He’s a great person and a great coach and I was just really happy that he got the opportunity and I think everybody in our locker room really rallied around him, which was awesome and obviously want to win more football games than we did, but I thought he stepped in and did a great job."

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Along with Bieniemy, Saleh and Bevell, the Lions will interview Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Arthur Smith and New Orleans Saints assistant head coach Dan Campbell next week.

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Both the Titans and Saints have playoff games this weekend, while the 49ers have been eliminated and the Chiefs are on bye.

Previously, the Lions talked to ex-Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis about their head coaching position.

On the GM side, the Lions have interviewed seven candidates already: in-house candidates Kyle O'Brien, Lance Newmark and Rob Lohman, ESPN analyst Louis Riddick, and ex-NFL GMs Thomas Dimitroff, Rick Smith and Scott Pioli.

This week, they plan to interview Saints assistant general managers Terry Fontenot and Jeff Ireland, director of college scouting Brad Holmes and Minnesota Vikings assistant GM George Paton, who works with new Lions executive Chris Spielman's brother, Vikings GM Rick Spielman.

Here is the Lions' full interview schedule, according to Sports Illustrated:

Monday: Bieniemy

Tuesday: Bevell, Fontenot

Wednesday: Holmes, Paton

Thursday: Saleh

Friday: Ireland

Next week: Smith, Campbell

Contact Dave Birkett at dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @davebirkett.
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RunKC 01:47 PM 07-02-2021
The Lions hired this retard over EB. Amazing how stupid these franchises are

New @Lions HC Dan Campbell: "I told (the players), honestly, day one, I said, 'Look, I'm not carrying your toilet paper around. I'm not gonna wipe your butt. You're gonna wipe your own butt. You handle it and I'll treat you like men until you prove otherwise.'" More to come soon.

— Michael Silver (@MikeSilver) July 2, 2021

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Sure-Oz 01:54 PM 07-02-2021
Originally Posted by RunKC:
The Lions hired this retard over EB. Amazing how stupid these franchises are

Gonna be hilarious watching that team
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DaneMcCloud 01:58 PM 07-02-2021
Originally Posted by RunKC:
The Lions hired this retard over EB. Amazing how stupid these franchises are
The Lions ownership sucks, which is why the Lions always suck, but EB has too many skeletons in his closet to be hired as an NFL head coach at this point in time.

The backlash would 10x the Chauncey Billups hire.
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Rain Man 01:59 PM 07-02-2021
That coach talks like the least bright kids in my fourth-grade class.
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Otter 02:14 PM 07-02-2021
Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, Tyreek Hill, Patrick Mahomes, Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Harrison Butker, brand new top 10 shiny OL, and a couple million dollars a year to coach a sport.

I don't know how the poor guy isn't sucking a shotgun barrel. He's got it good and knows it.
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Rainbarrel 02:23 PM 07-02-2021
I missed this gem in May:

"I don’t think we’re going to be able to do it, but I would love to literally just have a pet lion,” Campbell said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “Just a legit pet lion on a chain, a big ass chain, and he really is my pet. We just walk around the building, we go out to practice, we’re at 7-on-7, we’re behind the kicker when he’s kicking.”

Campbell said that he’d like the lion to play a role in letting a position group know they were underperforming by training it to “take a dump right there in the middle of where their section is” during a bad practice. He also acknowledged that he could wind up losing an arm to his new pet, “but that would be even better because it would validate what, this is a freaking, this a creature now.”
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ModSocks 02:30 PM 07-02-2021
Originally Posted by Rainbarrel:
I missed this gem in May:

"I don’t think we’re going to be able to do it, but I would love to literally just have a pet lion,” Campbell said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “Just a legit pet lion on a chain, a big ass chain, and he really is my pet. We just walk around the building, we go out to practice, we’re at 7-on-7, we’re behind the kicker when he’s kicking.”

Campbell said that he’d like the lion to play a role in letting a position group know they were underperforming by training it to “take a dump right there in the middle of where their section is” during a bad practice. He also acknowledged that he could wind up losing an arm to his new pet, “but that would be even better because it would validate what, this is a freaking, this a creature now.”
Good thing he never coached the Redskins. I don't think that'd go over well.
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Hoover 02:57 PM 07-02-2021
It is shocking to me that the Ford Family would want a guy like this to be the face of their franchise.
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Rain Man 03:00 PM 07-02-2021
Originally Posted by Rainbarrel:
I missed this gem in May:

"I don’t think we’re going to be able to do it, but I would love to literally just have a pet lion,” Campbell said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “Just a legit pet lion on a chain, a big ass chain, and he really is my pet. We just walk around the building, we go out to practice, we’re at 7-on-7, we’re behind the kicker when he’s kicking.”

Campbell said that he’d like the lion to play a role in letting a position group know they were underperforming by training it to “take a dump right there in the middle of where their section is” during a bad practice. He also acknowledged that he could wind up losing an arm to his new pet, “but that would be even better because it would validate what, this is a freaking, this a creature now.”
I bet Garrett Bolles is the only other person on earth who thinks this is a good idea.
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KCUnited 03:18 PM 07-02-2021
Originally Posted by RunKC:
The Lions hired this retard over EB. Amazing how stupid these franchises are

Mike Singletary would've dropped trou and wiped each one of their unmanly butts with 80 grit sandpaper you pussy ass coach
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Otter 04:03 PM 07-02-2021
Originally Posted by RunKC:
The Lions hired this retard over EB. Amazing how stupid these franchises are

Wouldn't that be something along the lines of "I'll treat you like children until you prove otherwise".

I want to watch this man try to solve an Algebra problem.
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notorious 04:06 PM 07-02-2021
What a fucking moron.

Look at what the greats do, and take away bits and pieces from them.

I don't think any of the greats said any of this garbage. Good Lord. :-)
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Sofa King 04:13 PM 07-02-2021
Embarrassing.
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Mennonite 04:24 PM 07-02-2021
Who can forget Denny Green's famous "wipe their ass!" post game press conference?



Originally Posted by KCUnited:
Mike Singletary would've dropped trou and wiped each one of their unmanly butts with 80 grit sandpaper you pussy ass coach
Wait - why the heck is Mike dropping his pants so he can wipe someone else's ass?

Mike Singletary on the subject of trousers: "Cannot play with them, cannot win with them, cannot coach with them. Can't wipe another man's ass while wearing them. Can't do it."





The NFL is a copycat league. 99% chance that in two years this guy will probably be announced as Chicago's new HC.



They'll probably bring in a black bear for a token interview first though.
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Skyy God 04:31 PM 07-02-2021
Also said something about literally eating their opponents.
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