Detroit Lions beat writer Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press has been all over the team’s general manager search, and he unearthed some interesting things on Monday after getting his hands on an internal memo from owner Sheila Ford Hamp.
“We are already deeply into researching top candidates for head coach and GM, and, as the recent internal memo stated, have already interviewed several in-house candidates for the GM job,” Ford Hamp’s memo read, according to the Detroit Free Press. “This process will play out over the next six weeks or so, with the result being a well vetted and proven head coach/GM team that can finally take the Lions where we all so earnestly wish to go — to the top!