Lions keep coaching staff intact, avoid playing coordinator bingo

Today, Lions' General Manager Martin Mayhew announced there would be no changes in the coaching staff for 2012. Via Dave Birkett of the Freep: General manager Martin Mayhew said today the Detroit Lions have re-signed all three of their coordinators: Scott Linehan, Gunther Cunningham and Danny Crossman. Mayhew went on to add: With Linehan (offense), Cunningham (defense) and Crossman (special teams) back on board, Mayhew said the organization is "working on the rest of our assistant coaches' contracts right now" and will start work on an extension for head coach Jim Schwartz "in the next couple of weeks or so." The short version of my response: Good! After the defensive debacles in week 17 and in the wild card round, there were calls for the Lions to let go their resident Abe Simpson, noted crank and defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham. Of course, most of those cries were coming from Mlive and callers to the local sports talk radio stations, so ...