Lions owner Martha Firestone Ford is 93 years old. So it stands to reason she’s not here for a long rebuilding project.But Lions
president Rod Wood said that she’s much different than her late
husband
Cheap Austin Bryant Jersey , who had a reputation for hanging on too long to bad hires.“I think Mrs. Ford is a very different owner than her husband and has a
lot less patience and a lot less tolerance for mediocrity, which is why we’ve
made some of the changes that we’ve made,” Wood said, via Fox 17. “Certainly
when I was hired and we had the opening for a General Manager, I wanted to go to
an organization and hire somebody who was used to winning and had come from an
organization that doesn’t know anything other than winning. That’s why we landed
on Bob Quinn. And then after we decided to make a change with the head
coach
Austin Bryant Jersey Womens , we kind of went back and looked for the same kind of opportunity to add a coach who doesn’t expect anything less than competing
for the Super Bowl every year.”Since William Clay Ford bought the team in 1963,
the Lions have won one playoff game. Since Martha Firestone Ford took over the
team upon her husband’s death in 2014, she has been willing to move more
swiftly, firing president Tom Lewand and G.M. Martin Mayhew during a 1-7 start
to the 2015 season.They were then willing to get rid of Jim Caldwell for going
9-7 too often (twice in four years, with just one losing season)
Austin Bryant Detroit Lions Jersey , and replacement Matt Patricia went 6-10 in his first year in charge.So if the matriarch isn’t interested in a long process and they
start slowly, things could get interesting for Patricia, and Quinn, and Wood,
and everyone else involved. The Lions went into the offseason with plans to
address the tight end position and they followed through on those plans in
multiple ways.They signed Jesse James and Logan Thomas as free agents before
drafting T.J. Hockenson in the first round and Isaac Nauta in the seventh round.
That group got a lot of work in the offseason program as the Lions regularly
worked on formations featuring three tight ends during OTAs.Offensive
coordinator Darrell Bevell talked about the “flexibility” the new group of tight
ends brings to the offense and said he’s enjoyed figuring out how to put all of
the pieces together for the 2019 season.“I think that whole room has been a big
upgrade in all ways
Austin Bryant Jersey 2019 ,” Bevell said, via the team’s website. “From Jesse to T.J. to Logan . . . it’s a great group for us to work with to kind of sift through those
guys and find out what they’re doing well. But that’s a talented group. We’re
really excited about all of those guys.”The Lions also have the capability to
roll out groups with three or four wide receivers, which should make for a more
varied attack than they employed last season. Bevell will be charged with making
sure that it is also a more effective one.
