| Lions Defensive Assistant Don Clemons Retires | | |
After 27 years and nine different coaching regimes, longtime Lions defensive assistant coach Don Clemons, 58, is calling it a career. Clemons served on the staffs of Jim Schwartz, Rod Marinelli, Dick Jauron, Steve Mariucci, Marty Mornhinweg, Gary Moeller, Bobby Ross, Wayne Fontes and Darryl Rodgers over his nearly three decades with the organization. "Don Clemons has been one of the great contributors to the Lions organization," said team president Tom Lewand. "He has served nine head coaches, and particularly in our business, that tells you what kind of person and what kind of worker Don Clemons is. Nine head coaches have seen his value as a person and as a football coach, and I do it in that order, because as good of a coach as he's been for us, he's been a better person." After 35 years coaching, Clemons said he knew it was that time. "Another friend told me not do anything for four months, relax, and after that, you'll have a better idea of what you want to do," he said of his immediate plans for retirement.
Source: DetroitLions.com
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