{"id":690993,"date":"2026-01-20T11:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690993\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:11:33","slug":"detroit-lions-fans-react-to-drew-petzing-offensive-coordinator-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/690993\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions fans react to Drew Petzing offensive coordinator hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After multiple weeks of interviews with offensive coordinator candidates, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/lions-hiring-drew-petzing-offensive-203610847.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Lions are hiring Drew Petzing;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions are hiring Drew Petzing<\/a> as the franchise&#8217;s next offensive coordinator. Per ESPN&#8217;s Jeremy Fowler, the expectation during OC interviews was that <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lions<\/a> head coach Dan Campbell would relinquish playcalling to his new hire.<\/p>\n<p>Petzing brings playcalling experience into the seat in Detroit. Petzing served as the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/arizona-cardinals\/355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona Cardinals;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Arizona Cardinals<\/a>&#8216; offensive coordinator each of the past three seasons under former Cardinals head coach Jonathan Gannon.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals boasted the NFL&#8217;s No. 2 yards per carry offense in both 2023 and 2024 and finished with the NFL&#8217;s No. 19, No. 11 and No. 19 total offenses and the league&#8217;s No. 24, No. 12 and No. 23 scoring offenses across the 2023-25 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>While he is a well-seasoned option, the initial social media reaction from Lions fans to the breaking news ranges from alarming to promising, especially given the franchise&#8217;s prized talent at this critical juncture:<\/p>\n<p>For more\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lions<\/a>\u00a0coverage, follow us on X,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thelionswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@TheLionsWire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@TheLionsWire<\/a>, and give our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lionswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page a like.\u00a0Follow Scout on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpringgateNews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@SpringgateNews;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@SpringgateNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Lions Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lionswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/lions\/2026\/01\/19\/detroit-lions-fans-react-drew-petzing-offensive-coordinator-hire\/88255243007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Lions fans react to Drew Petzing offensive coordinator hire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Lions fans react to Drew Petzing offensive coordinator hire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After multiple weeks of interviews with offensive coordinator candidates, the Detroit Lions are hiring Drew Petzing as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[390,374,85,6214,1774,146,113,2506,24101,7,7202,147,6,12611,13240],"class_list":["post-690993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-lions","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-bears","tag-cleveland","tag-dan-campbell","tag-dan-orlovsky","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroitlions","tag-drew-petzing","tag-football","tag-josh-dobbs","tag-lions","tag-nfl","tag-offensive-coordinator","tag-petzing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115927129194110002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690993","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=690993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}