ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Detroit Lions owner Martha Ford is trying to conduct a national search to find the next team president and general manager after she fired Tom Lewand and Martin Mayhew earlier this month.
Ford offered no clues as to what she would be looking for in her first foray into front office hiring other than she is going to try and hire the “very best leadership” for a franchise that has one playoff win in the Super Bowl era.
By making the moves when she did, she gave herself -- and whomever might be advising her in these decisions -- a wide swath of time to examine every possible candidate, and there are a lot of potentially logical ones out there.