Lions Part Ways With Cooter
The Lions are not renewing offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter's contract after the team sputtered to a 6-10 season.
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The Lions are not renewing offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter's contract after the team sputtered to a 6-10 season.
Great performances from the Bears, Ravens and Colts highlight the final week of the NFL regular season. How did your team grade out?
Both teams had long been eliminated from playoff contention. But the Lions (6-10) at least got a little positive push at the end of Matt Patricia's first season as coach.
"Whatever is going to happen is going to happen, and that's just the way this business works," he added. "If this is the last one for me, I appreciate the opportunity they gave me. It's awesome to be a head football coach in the NFL."
The Packers are 2-1 under Philbin going into their season finale against the Detroit Lions, who have stumbled to the finish line having lost seven of their past nine games.
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It was Victory Monday without the victory in Allen Park, as the players didn't have organized meetings the day before their regular day off Tuesday for Christmas Day.
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Chicago collected 11 hits while improving to 23-10 in its last 33 games, bouncing back nicely after losing 8-6 in 10 innings in the series opener on Monday night.
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