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As the Detroit Lions (8-7) prepare for their Week 17 contest against their NFC North rival Green Bay Packers at Ford Field, the job status of Lions head coach Jim Caldwell is again up in the air.
According to an article published Tuesday afternoon by staff writer Michael Rothstein of ESPN, Caldwell opened up about the Lions' current standing as a team that hasn't nearly lived up to expectations.
“There hasn't been anything across the board that we've been good at,” Caldwell said during a press conference earlier today. “An indication of where we are — the great thing about the National Football League is all you have do is look at your record. And we're just a little bit above average, and a little bit above average is not good enough.”
Although Caldwell would not get into details about what he would have done differently during the 2017-18 season, he said that everyone will be evaluated in the organization.
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“Nothing's changed. Nothing's changed other than what I told you on Sunday, and it is what it is,” Caldwell said. “But everybody gets evaluated at the end of the year. Everybody — players, coaches, scheme, everything. That's part of the process.”
Caldwell, who is a combined 35-28 in four seasons as the Lions head coach, said that the organization evaluates everything at all times, not just after Week 17 is in the books.
“You look at it on a weekly basis, and you always make some determination,” Jim Caldwell said. “That's what we do all the time. That's constant. We look at some things, and some things you say, you know, like to change that or something. You'd say, man, we did that decent. We should have done that a little bit more. That's a natural part of what we do. That's weekly. That's daily.”
The Lions, who fell 26-17 to the Cincinnati Bengals during their Week 16 contest at Paul Brown Stadium, are officially eliminated from the NFC playoff picture.
