On Monday, the Detroit Lions made the hiring of Drew Petzing as the team\u2019s next offensive coordinator official. But with no introductory press conference currently scheduled, or a statement from the Lions front office, there hasn\u2019t been much information on why the Lions made that decision. Hours later, the Lions reportedly hired Mike Kafka for a high-ranking offensive coach role, and that remains unofficial.<\/p>\n
For one, Holmes made it clear that they weren\u2019t hiring an offensive coordinator to run a predetermined scheme. Petzing will have the opportunity to run what he wants to run.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, it\u2019s his offense,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cIt\u2019s not something where he\u2019s got to do something else or be like\u2014this is his show, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for what that offense may look like, Holmes didn\u2019t provide any details. In fact, he said that part of the appeal of Petzing was that he wasn\u2019t scheme-specific. Rather, he\u2019s shown an ability to adapt and adjust based on the personnel available\u2014as evidenced by the Cardinals\u2019 ever-changing strategy over the past three years amidst a plethora of injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I liked about him is that it\u2019s not a system,\u201d Holmes told Birkett. \u201cIt\u2019s what you do you have, what\u2019s the personnel that you have. Like, what can we do? And so that\u2019s what I think he showed us in that process is that he can maximize personnel of what\u2019s available. So that\u2019s real exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for Kafka, it certainly sounds like Holmes was very pleasantly surprised to be able to add him to the staff. They had come away very impressed by Kafka during his interview for the offensive coordinator job, and I think it\u2019s fair to say Holmes didn\u2019t think he would be able to add both him and Petzing to the staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were really high on Kafka, too, in the process, and so to be able to get that one, too, I was just like, \u2018Holy cow,\u2019\u201d Holmes said.<\/p>\n
Holmes didn\u2019t provide any clarity on what Kafka\u2019s role, just confirming it was a high-ranking role that will be specified later this offseason.<\/p>\n
Currently, there is no scheduled media availability to talk to Petzing, Kafka, or head coach Dan Campbell for further clarification on the hires. However, traditionally the Lions make Campbell, Holmes, and any new coordinator hires are available to the media during the NFL Combine, which is scheduled for the end of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, the Detroit Lions made the hiring of Drew Petzing as the team\u2019s next offensive coordinator official.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37982,153,1889,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-712446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-detroit-lions-coaching-news-rumors","9":"tag-detroit-lions-news","10":"tag-detroit-lions-quotes","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115974951158746574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712446","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=712446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}