NFL Black Monday: Lions fire Jim Schwartz

Jim Schwartz is out in Detroit.

The Lions fired their coach Monday, according to multiple reports, after the team finished 7-9 and failed to make the playoffs.

Schwartz, who took over a team that was coming off a winless season in 2008, was 29-51 in five seasons with one playoff appearance, a loss.

At one point this season, the Lions were 6-3 with a two-game lead in the NFC North. They were the only team in the division to have one quarterback start all 16 games.

The Lions went 1-6 down the stretch, however, blowing fourth-quarter leads in all six of those defeats.

“Obviously, we didn’t win enough games this year,” Schwartz said after Sunday’s loss to Minnesota. “And there’s no standard really to judge other than that. And I understand that, in this business.”

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