On Thursday morning, news broke that the Detroit Lions had traded Pro Bowl CB Darius Slay to the Philadelphia Eagles for a pair of draft picks.
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Though Slay had said before that he wanted to spend the rest of his career with the Lions if they were willing to pay him, it became abundantly clear as of late that he really wanted to be traded.
On Thursday night, Slay joined WJR and did not hold back as he bashed Lions head coach Matt Patricia. Click here to read Slay’s comments about his former coach.
According to Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, Patricia was abhorred with Slay’s practice of signing and exchanging jerseys after every Lions game.
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“Slay has one year left on the contract extension he signed in 2016, but his departure has been widely expected after he and the team spent much of the past year at odds.
Slay sat out voluntary workouts and mandatory minicamp last spring in a contractual dispute that was never resolved; his fun-loving personality never meshed with third-year Lions coach Matt Patricia, who abhorred his practice of signing and exchanging jerseys after every game, win or loss; and he didn’t hide his displeasure when the Lions traded his good friend Quandre Diggs to the Seattle Seahawks in the fall.”
Nation, do you agree with Patricia’s coaching tactics or is he just running good players out of town for no reason?
