The Lions should try to steal recently promoted Ohio State coach with ties to Dan Campbell for a top spot on their coaching staff
The Detroit Lions' brain drain might be fully done at this point. We'll soon see what this coaching staff is going to look like once all the hires are done. Some have already happened. One spot the Lions still need to fill is the open receivers coach job. Antwaan Randel El did a great job […]
The Detroit Lions' brain drain might be fully done at this point. We'll soon see what this coaching staff is going to look like once all the hires are done. Some have already happened. One spot the Lions still need to fill is the open receivers coach job.
Antwaan Randel El did a great job with this group here, but he took a promotion with the Bears and you can't blame anyone for taking a promotion. The job needs to be filled and a coach on the rise at Ohio State might be the guy for the job.
Buckeyes receiver coach and co-offensive coordinator Brian Hartline could be someone the Lions could look to for help. Hartline has been fantastic with Ohio State receivers Marvin Harrison Jr., Emeka Egbuka, Chris Olave, Garrett Wilson, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
Hartline is ready for the NFL and could be a guy who could be an offensive coordinator and maybe even a head coach in this league at some point, but he needs to get into the league first and the Lions are the best spot for that.
He can come into a staff that is very open to all voices and ideas. He can share whatever he wants and build up his NFL reputation with a guy that he's already spent a lot of time with in Dan Campbell.
Hartline played receiver with the Dolphins from 2009 to 2014. Campbell was on the Dolphins coaching staff nearly that entire time. Hartline just missed out on Campbell's interim head coach season there.
I know Hartline just got promoted to offensive coordinator for the Buckeyes and it's not the most likely situation in the world, but at the end of the day, an NFL job is always going to trump college, and with Lions coaches getting hired like crazy, he has a chance to fast track himself to a bigger position in the league with one year in Detroit. It's worth it and he wouldn't be the first coach to do something like this.
The grit and the villains are gone, welcome to the era of the salty Detroit Lions
I know you felt it on Sunday because I felt it too. Just sitting there before the game and watching the highlight packages and interviews put together for the Eagles and the Chiefs all I could think was "That should have been the Detroit Lions." I saw the same sentiment from Lions fans all over […]
