Lions Fire Coach Jim Schwartz After 5 Seasons

It's eerie how often a team takes on the personality of its head coach. For the past five years, the Detroit Lions were the physical embodiment of Jim Schwartz: aggressive, rambunctious and limited by an inability — or lack of desire — to control

In an unsurprising move, the Lions axe Jim Schwartz after going 7-9.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. – Jim Schwartz was hired to turn around the Detroit Lions. He did that for three seasons. The next two years, he failed to keep the Lions going in the right direction and that cost him his job. The Lions fired Schwartz on Monday, one

jim-schwartz.jpg Are you glad the Detroit Lions fired Jim Schwartz after five seasons as head coach? AP Photo. DETROIT, MI – The Detroit Lions fired coach Jim Schwartz after five seasons on Monday and will live stream online a 2 p.m. press conference 

ALLEN PARK — Jim Schwartz won 10 games during a surprising run to the playoffs in 2011. But he won just 11 more over the past two seasons, and the Detroit Lions ran out of patience. The club wasted no time executing the inevitable and axed Schwartz on