Thursday, November 22, 2012
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| A real bad day at the office |
posted by Pat Caputo at
6:46 PM
Pat Caputo is a sports columnist for The Oakland Press. Caputo covered the Tigers from 1986-98, and Lions from 1998-2002 for The Oakland Press before becoming a columnist. Caputo was raised in Birmingham and played baseball and football at Groves High School. His photograph playing high school sports appeared in The Oakland Press. He has won numerous writing awards, including first place in column writing from the Michigan Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association, and from the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has been named among the Top Ten sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE), and has won honors in four of the APSE's six national award categories. He has garnered top national honors for his column writing and sports writing from the Local Media Association. Caputo, who has resided in Oakland County since he was nine years old, currently lives in Lake Orion. Caputo has a radio show weeknights and weekends on 97.1 FM, The Ticket, which is the flagship station for the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings. He also appears regularly on FOX 2 television on "SportsWorks."
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2 Comments:
This one was a stinker, but worse than anything, it makes for another disappointing loss on Thanksgiving on a game the Lions should have won.
So Pat, I’m very interested in your opinion - What do the Lions do with Schwartz? Clearly we have been suffering through his learning period and he could someday be a good coach. Right now, he remains as undisciplined as many of his players have been during the recent off season. The red flag throw was such an immature move, you would have thought he was a guy at home jumping off his couch, spilling his nachos and yelling at the TV. The best coaches in the league, keep their cool, call over the officials and calmly discuss their options before acting. The only reason the act that quickly was to act like a crazed fan instead of a fearless leader.
Matt Stafford said the best thing last week – the difference between winning and losing so many of these last few Lions games is a few plays. The reason these plays don’t go our way is purely due to the lack of professionalism in the entire organization. That requires a better leader who knows how to act.
I’m of the opinion that we need to move on. It doesn’t appear that Jim will mature fast enough to be the leader we need. What do you think?
Swartz is a good coach, he just got caught up in a passionate mistake.
What concerns me more is how this Lions team is really undisciplined. As a coach or coaches, that is something that should be fixed, and fast a year ago.
Shu is a concern. He's in some trouble now. This won't be just a fine. Why hasn't he learned and matured? Where's a leader that can talk to him and hard? Shu, you're not a bully playing in the back yard with your friends at 13 yrs old.
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