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Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia already in danger of losing his players?

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The one thing I do know and some pro's are babies.. I remember when players complained the NYG head coach, Tom Coughlin, was working them "too hard." And there was speculation he might get fired.

I don't know if any of this is true but some pro's, esp. during voluntary workouts, can be a bit dramatic. They don't want to work..
 
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So this dumb cunt Carlos Monarrez writes a piece on how because Patricia makes the Lions run for making mistakes and several other publications run with it. Really must be slow going at the Free Press. Fucking clown.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2018/06/08/detroit-lions-matt-patricia/684073002/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...icia-danger-losing-players-running/686349002/

https://nesn.com/2018/06/nfl-rumors...already-could-be-in-danger-of-losing-players/

https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/arti...anger_of_losing_his_players/s1_12680_26592596
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Carlos Monnarez is a hack. He's basing this off comments from Kerryon Johnson who didn't even say anything negative towards Patricia lol. Absolute joke!! I have been watching the NFLN and not one report from anyone that Lions players are complaining about working too hard or there's going to be a fucking revolt against Matty P.
 
kalinecountry said:
I read this shit and posted against my better judgement, most everything this asswipe puts out on the freep is pure swill.
Birkett seems the complete opposite of monarezz.

https://www.detroitlionspodcast.com/christopher/2018/06/09/detroit-lions-podcast-minicamp-coverage/
Detroit Lions Podcast goes off on this low life at the 50 minutes mark.
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I watched the video of Momarrez talking about this "situation" and the dude is smug as fuck. The guy needs to be slapped. Calling out Patricia like that??? What a doushe lol
 
Local Patriots station's take on Carlos Mencia's "report":

https://985thesportshub.com/2018/06/11/matt-patricia-making-lions-reporters-lose-minds/

As if the Detroit Lions and their local media could've used any more proof of how desperately they need a winning program, look no further than reporter Carlos Monarrez's latest column in the Detroit Free-Press.

The article ran with the headline: "Detroit Lions' Matt Patricia is in danger of losing his players". Already??? Monarrez backed up his audacious claim, which comes about halfway during the team's offseason workouts, by arguing that Patricia is going to lose the team because he's ... making them run laps.

If making players run laps is an insulting waste of time, then maybe Monarrez would like to have a word with Bill Belichick. The Patriots head coach has long employed such tactics in New England, and he did it twice just last week at mandatory minicamp in Foxboro. He made literally everyone run a lap for committing a false start during 11-on-11 drills on the first day, then made the offense run for committing an illegal substitution on day three.

Clearly, Patricia is bringing a taste of New England to Detroit, and Monarrez and his fellow reporters aren't used to it. Even though Patricia did say "There's only one coach Belichick" at his introductory presser and said he'd be his own guy, he didn't learn from any other head coaches at the professional level. So of course he's going to take some cues from Hoodie.

The Lions, however, are not used to one of the byproducts of Belichick's tough discipline: winning a lot of football games. Not important ones, anyway. Based on Monarrez's bellyaching over the "insulting" nature of making underachieving pro athletes run laps, perhaps everyone there is a little too used to losing come playoff time - or missing the playoffs entirely - year after year.

For a Lions organization that hasn't won a playoff game since 1991, perhaps they could use a little more discipline. It's simple: if they can get it together in practice, they won't have to run. That's what Patricia's going for. It remains to be seen whether it will work out the way he intends. But to blame the coach right out of the gate, when the team has become the poster child for playoff futility, is ridiculous.
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Carlos Monarrez is becoming a national laughing stock.

https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2018...med-for-claiming-patricia-may-be-losing-team/
Lions beat writer publicly shamed for claiming Patricia may be losing team.
LionsWire

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.c...-could-lose-players-for-making-them-gasp-run/
Columnist thinks coach could lose players for making them (gasp) run.
PFT

https://deadspin.com/true-ass-brain-football-columnist-says-matt-patricia-ri-1826715669
True Ass-Brain Football Columnist Says Matt Patricia Risks Losing Lions Players Because Punishment Isn't Fun.
Deadspin
 
well, maybe this guy was right.

I wonder if the fat ass Patricia will make them run today?
 
Don't care about that. What I do care about is being told that we fans must be more patient, when many/most of us have been too patient for 30-50 years now, so that BS can be considered to be quite insulting.
 
turok said:
Don't care about that. What I do care about is being told that we fans must be more patient, when many/most of us have been too patient for 30-50 years now, so that BS can be considered to be quite insulting.
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I agree totally with you. Team was 9-7 under a crappy coach so Patrica really has zero excuses for his team being unprepared to play. It was a embarrassment. Listening to 97.1 out of Detroit there is some really big concerns in how Patrica is acting on the sidelines. I am really worried that the Lions really are not playing for this guy. Right now. Man it is so frustrating.
 
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