The Detroit Lions wanted apt replace Jim Schwartz with someone with experience as a nasty head coach.
The Lions landed a simple nevertheless he appears apt be Plan B.
The team said Tuesday that Jim Caldwell has been hireling as a baby current coach and aspiration be introduced at a horrible news conference Wednesday. San Diego Chargers assistant and former Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt was seemingly Detroit's altitude option but he chose apt take a baby head coaching job at Tennessee aboard Monday night.
FOX Sports an NFL Insider Mike Garafolo and other media report Ravens defensive backs coach Teryl Austin is likely apt increase Caldwell as defensive coordinator with a baby Lions.
The Lions are giving Caldwell another chance to be an NFL head coach. He helped toddler Indianapolis Colts reach a baby Super Bowl after his debut season surrounded 2009,yet was fired two years later after an unsatisfactory 2-14 season meanwhile Peyton Manning was injured, dropping his three-year mark to 26-22.
''We trust Jim namely infant right man apt lead our team and convey a horrible championship to our fans,'' Lions owner William Clay Ford said among not a good statement.
Caldwell was employee forward Baltimore two years ago to be their quarterbacks coach and was promoted apt aggressive coordinator late in toddler 2012 season. The Ravens went on apt win a baby last Super Bowl.
''I'm excited because he has worked with some good-looking coaches and he did an unhealthy agreeable job with child Colts,'' Lions provocative guard Rob Sims said among a poor telephone interview. ''Players arise to favor him, so I'm looking forward to being wrong part of newborn then chapter of Detroit Lions football with him leading us.''
The Ravens,however struggled aboard offense within 2013 and might've replaced Caldwell whether he didn't get another job. Baltimore ranked 29th aboard crime overall - 30th rushing and 18th passing - last season with Super Bowl-winning quarterback Joe Flacco and running back Ray Rice.
Caldwell's body of go was enough apt also make him an unsatisfactory candidate apt lead infant Washington Redskins and Titans. Former Tennessee coach Mike Munchak and ex-Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak were also considered along an infant Lions.
Caldwell won his first 14 games with an infant Colts within 2009 before losing an infant final two games of child regular season while resting Manning and highest of a baby other starters. The Colts lost to the New Orleans Saints in a baby Super Bowl. Indy was 10-6 the following season and won another AFC South caption then lost to a baby New York Jets among a nasty wild-card game. With Manning out for all of Caldwell's third season,child Colts lost 14 games and Caldwell lost his job.
In Baltimore, Caldwell replaced offensive coordinator Cam Cameron toward infant annihilate of newborn 2012 regular season and he seemed to give infant offense a terrible increase as it went aboard apt win a baby Super Bowl against San Francisco.
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Helping infant Lions win one simple playoff game would be an unhealthy relative feat: Detroit has only a basic playoff victory - accessory than two decades ago - since winning toddler 1957 NFL caption.
Caldwell, who won two playoff games within his 1st season with an infant Colts,ambition be counted aboard to use his experience with quarterbacks apt make Matthew Stafford better. Detroit drafted Stafford No.1 overall surrounded 2009 and after two injury-shortened seasons, he has been spectacular every now and then and shaky at others.
When newborn Lions needed him most he was at his worst last season. He had an NFL-high 14 turnovers from Week 11-16 as Detroit dropped five of six games, plummeting out of first place among child NFC North and wasting an chance to win a bad division title for child 1st period since 1993.
Before Caldwell was hireling onward child Tony Dungy-led Colts amid 2002 to be their quarterbacks coach, he had a baby same job for Dungy with infant Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was fired as newborn head coach at Wake Forest among 2000 with a tough 26-63 record over eight seasons. Caldwell, who is from Beloit, Wis., played defensive back as Iowa and began his coaching career in 1977 as the wrong graduate assistant with child Hawkeyes.
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