Watching the Super Bowl from home with his family, you know Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes was experiencing some mixed emotions. Up until last year when he took the job in Detroit, Holmes had spent the previous 18 years within the Los Angeles Rams organization, slowly working his way up from a scouting assistant to the director of college scouting by the time he left. Throughout those 18 years, he saw a lot of bad football, including a 13-year playoff drought.
The first year he decided to leave, the Rams, who had been trending up for the past five years, would end the season lifting the Lombardi Trophy.