The Detroit Lions don’t have much to hold their hats on this season other than the fact they’ve been competitive in nearly every game they’ve played, other than a 41-30 loss to their divisional rivals from Minnesota.
For maligned head coach Matt Patricia, that’s a positive to look at as the season winds down to a close.
“Obviously, you can go glass half-full, half-empty, however you want,” Patricia said Monday. “I think for us there are positives in all of it and negatives in all of it. We try to make sure we understand all of those and explain them and teach it and learn from it from that standpoint.
“You’d certainly rather be in close games than not close games, that’s for sure. Obviously, playing in every single game where you have a chance to win, that’s obviously important from that standpoint. You just want to go out there and win. I think you can look at it from both ways.”
But how do they stop blowing leads?
“I think if it was one exact, specific, one thing, I think we would do everything possible to fix that one thing,” Patricia said. “I think for us it’s been the inconsistency of the different things throughout the course of the season that have caused us in those situations not to be able to win.“
