{"id":690843,"date":"2026-01-20T09:36:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690843\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:36:27","slug":"drew-petzing-is-detroit-lions-new-oc-so-what-does-the-internet-think-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690843\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew Petzing is Detroit Lions’ new OC, so what does the internet think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Lions<\/a> have finally hired an offensive coordinator and the reactions are \u2026 well, mixed might be too kind.<\/p>\n

The Lions\u2019 addition of former Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator Drew Petzing<\/a> on Monday, Jan. 19, provoked a lot of hot takes, on both ends of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

In the moment, folks on social media (X.com) praised it as a sneaky good hire \u2026 or a disastrous one.<\/p>\n

\"Cardinals<\/p>\n

Cardinals offensive coordinator Drew Petzing talks to his offense during training camp at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on July 31, 2025.<\/p>\n

THE NEWS: Lions hiring Drew Petzing as their new offensive coordinator<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n

The hot takes<\/p>\n

After the Cardinals<\/a> finished 23rd in scoring, it was pretty easy to find folks who thought the move was awful:<\/p>\n

And some who loved it:<\/p>\n

By the numbers<\/p>\n

Some folks even broke out the math; depending on your experience with the Cardinals\u2019 offense over the three seasons Petzing was in charge in the desert, the hire looked great \u2026<\/p>\n

Or, awf … wait, did we use awful already? OK, not good:<\/p>\n

In his own words<\/p>\n

But, hey, maybe you just want to hear the new guy explain a play or two. We got you:<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Drew Petzing is Detroit Lions’ new OC, so what does the internet think?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions have finally hired an offensive coordinator and the reactions are \u2026 well, mixed might be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[390,146,113,2506,24101,7,7523,4827,147,6,12611,13240],"class_list":["post-690843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-drew-petzing","tag-football","tag-jacoby-brissett","tag-kyler-murray","tag-lions","tag-nfl","tag-offensive-coordinator","tag-petzing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115926755014498719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}