This, on the face of it, is progress for the Detroit Lions.
This is actual, legitimate, sick-of-the-losing, sick-of-the-culture progress, as well as the fulfilling of a promise by team owner Martha Ford, her children and new team president Rod Wood.
The Lions are expected to hire New England director of pro scouting Bob Quinn as the franchise’s new general manager and, in Quinn, they have exactly what they said they would set out to find.
The Lions said at the outset they would conduct a national search. They said at the outset they wanted to hire someone who came from a winning program with a sustained measure of success.