Better than it being Matthew Stafford, right?

Just kidding. It’s never good when anyone is hurt. Matt Patricia is going into year two of his regime with the Detroit Lions at less than 100 percent.

He’s currently dealing with a lower leg injury. Here’ what he said regarding the situation:

“Really just there’s very few times during the year where we have an opportunity to go in and kind of get things done so just pretty much been dealing with a little bit of a lower leg issue and a muscle thing, bone thing for a while,” Patricia said. “So kind of had that cleaned up. Just trying to stay off it here for a couple days, so day by day and we’ll go from there.”

How much of an effect does this have on him? He said that it doesn’t allow him to be where he normally is on the field when coaching which is right in the middle of the action.

Outside of Patricia and a couple others, the Lions are going into training camp healthy.