New Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn just retained the head coach of a 2014 playoff team that lost seven of its first eight games in 2015—and he was right to do it.
All along, Martha Ford and the Lions ownership insisted the choice of head coach would belong to whomever they hired to make football decisions. Quinn, a 39-year-old first-time general manager, was not only given the title of executive vice president to go with it, according to ESPN's Adam Caplan, but a five-year contract.
Quinn is completely, totally, emphatically in charge of Lions football for the foreseeable future.