General manager Chuck Schmidt Division place 5th NFC Central Head coach Wayne Fontes Owner William Clay Ford Sr. | Record 5–11 Playoff finish did not qualify Start date 1996 Home field Silverdome | |
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The 1996 Detroit Lions season was their 67th in the National Football League (NFL). The team declined severely from their previous season's output of 10–6 and missed the playoffs for the first time in four seasons. Following the season, longtime head coach Wayne Fontes was fired and Bobby Ross was hired to be the team's head coach the following season.
Schedule
1996 was the first time since 1984 that the Lions played the San Diego Chargers, and the first time they had met the Philadelphia Eagles in the regular season since 1986. The reason for this is that before the admission of the Texans in 2002, NFL scheduling formulas for games outside a team’s division were much more influenced by table position during the previous season.
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