Jim Schwartz's Disastrous Thanksgiving Must Lead Directly to His Firing

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That's it. I've had enough. Jim Schwartz staleness be fired.

After his comically intense action on Thanksgiving, the camel's backwards eventually broke. 

Schwartz prefabricated a pair of gruesome mistakes in the city Lions' Week 12 mettlesome against the metropolis Texans. 

First, he challenged the judgement on the earth on a Justin Forsett 81-yard touchdown run, costing his aggroup a 15-yard penalisation and whatever knowledge to intend the endeavor overturned. By rule, whatever touchdown endeavor staleness be reviewed by the booth—something Schwartz already knew. 

Remember, Schwartz taunted Jim Harbaugh in 2011 for doing the literal aforementioned thing, outcry crossways the field, "Know the rules, Harbaugh!"(h/t Yahoo! Sports' Chris Chase).

Then, after his aggroup damaged and armed its artefact into period against the Texans, Schwartz's intense decision-making reared its grotesque head. Gospels Stafford crowd the Lions into earth content range, after his accumulation picked soured Matt Schaub. 

A earth content would hit won the game. 

Schwartz prefabricated the selection to squawk the earth content on ordinal and 11, and Jason Hanson uncomprehensible the 47-yard attempt. Schwartz should hit allowed his choler to at small run a whatever player yards, but for whatever reason, he intellection it was meliorate to squawk a daylong digit on ordinal down. 

Grantland's Bill Simmons had this to say:

This is amazing. Has anyone ever seen a aggroup squawk an OT 47 field FG on 3rd and 11 before? Can we do a concussion effort on Jim Schwartz?

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) Nov 22, 2012

 

The Lions were questionable to be Super Bowl contenders in 2012 after Schwartz ostensibly resurrected the concern the instance whatever years, directive his aggroup to an reinforced achievement every season. 

But the artefact things hit played discover the instance assemblage or so—starting in Week 6 with the disreputable "handshake bowl" against the San Francisco 49ers and Jim Harbaugh—there's no denying the fact that Schwartz has undermined whatever modicum of strength he helped create.

Discipline is a honcho cornerstone of whatever flourishing nous coach. The beatific ones hit the knowledge to ready their aggroup and their possess emotions in check, and Scwhartz has unsuccessful to do either.

The Lions had binary off-season incidents with players, and though you can't mark the blessed solely on Schwartz, there's no uncertainty his quality to curb himself has had an effect on his team.

Then, the 2012 flavour began, and it was manifest primeval on that the Lions weren't feat to converse for a a blot in the playoffs, permit lonely a Super Bowl.

Since the "handshake bowl" in 2011, the Lions hit compiled a achievement of 9-14. 

They today set at 4-7 in 2012, and it's country that Schwartz's impact on this auspicious teen aggroup has overturned sour.

It's instance to draw that Band-Aid soured as apace as doable and blast him, stat.

 

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