Even after Dominic Raiola admitted that he took a cheap shot at the Patriots because he felt the Pats were unnecessarily running up the score against his team, he won’t see any internal discipline for his actions.
Even with new head coach Jim Caldwell, the Lions can’t, or won’t, discipline their players for needless aggression on the football field.
But Lions coach Jim Caldwell said today that the team will not discipline Raiola.
“He and I talked,” Caldwell said today. “We addressed the issue. He knows how we like to do things here. That’s the end of the story.”
The lack of action by the Lions is only surprising because discipline was one of the most pertinent concerns which Caldwell wanted to address earlier this season.
“That was kind of the buzzword,” Caldwell said of his team’s discipline. “The big thing I’m concerned about is what we do now, what we look at now. This is a new day. Everybody had a clean slate coming in. I don’t try to justify, rectify, explain what they did previously, what happened previously. That’s not my concern.
“My concern is what we do now.”
Which is apparently nothing.
Hopefully, the NFL will be willing to act if the Lions aren’t.
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