{"id":37774,"date":"2018-02-10T00:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T05:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=37774"},"modified":"2018-02-10T00:48:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T05:48:44","slug":"lions-sign-bob-quinn-five-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2018\/02\/10\/lions-sign-bob-quinn-five-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions Sign General Manager Bob Quinn to Five-Year Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/lions\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detroit Lions<\/a> have signed general manager <strong>Bob Quinn<\/strong> to a five-year extension, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/news\/news-short\/article-1\/Lions-announce-contract-extension-for-general-manager-Bob-Quinn\/787f6e68-49dc-4458-9555-72b1a0c4008e\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">team announced Friday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lions announced they have agreed to terms with General Manager Bob Quinn on an extension to his current contract. The extension matches the term of HC Matt Patricia\u2019s new deal with the team &#8211; both tied to Detroit for five years.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter\/status\/962021763256410112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The move comes only <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonnfl.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/02\/05\/detroit-lions-hire-matt-patricia-head-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two days after Quinn&#8217;s hiring<\/a> of former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprofootball.com\/nfl-teams\/patriots\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New England Patriots<\/a> defensive coordinator <strong>Matt Patricia<\/strong> as the team&#8217;s head coach going into the 2018 season. Quinn and Patricia both have ties to the Patriots, as Quinn was New England&#8217;s director of pro scouting prior to being hired as the Lions&#8217; general manager.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Detroit Lions Sign General Manager Bob Quinn to Five-Year Extension<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Quinn was hired in 2016 after an underwhelming season in which the team began the season with a 1-7 record. Following weeks seven and eight, there were slews of firings, underscored by the relief of former general manager <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/M\/MayhMa20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Martin Mayhew<\/a><\/strong>. Then-vice president of pro personnel <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/W\/WhitSh20.htm?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheldon White<\/a><\/strong> finished the season as the team&#8217;s interim general manager but failed to retain the job that off-season when Quinn was hired.<\/p>\n<h2>Quinn and Patricia in the Same Boat<\/h2>\n<p>Quinn&#8217;s extension happens to match the length of Patricia&#8217;s contract, as the team noted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitlions.com\/news\/news-short\/article-1\/Lions-announce-contract-extension-for-general-manager-Bob-Quinn\/787f6e68-49dc-4458-9555-72b1a0c4008e\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">their press release<\/a>. The move ties Quinn and Patricia together in whatever outcomes the team faces in the coming seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The matching contract lengths are no coincidence, however. It&#8217;s common practice for a general manager in the NFL to be allotted the hiring of one of &#8216;their own&#8217; coaches prior to being on the hot seat, especially if coaches are retained from a previous regime. Quinn found himself in such a position upon his appointment in 2015, inheriting <strong>Jim Caldwell<\/strong> as his head coach and electing to keep him around. Now that the team has moved on from Caldwell, Quinn has brought in Patricia as &#8216;his guy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The move makes it clear that the two will now be held equally accountable for the direction in which they take the team.\u00a0It seems Quinn, like the Lions fanbase every few years, has no choice but to hope the hire pans out.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"cdQtOxh_RHJJeVHRFOP4kw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/915493492\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'cdQtOxh_RHJJeVHRFOP4kw',sig:'1FO-o0GHiLOgeGqjRruMnBrhy3BQF4Pv1_2llS9SUA8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'915493492',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions announced on Friday that they signed general manager Bob Quinn to a five-year extension, tying him to newly minted head coach Matt Patricia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2405,"featured_media":37782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[2454,61,2773,1455,40],"class_list":["post-37774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lions","category-nfl-news","tag-bob-quinn","tag-football","tag-jim-caldwell","tag-matt-patricia","tag-nfl"],"modified_by":"John Bava","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}