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Lions Changing Their Process For Coach, GM Searches

Lions and President Rod Wood have interviewed eight GM and three head coach candidates so farGETTY IMAGES

Lions President Rod Wood said that the team's coach and GM searches "have been 'very different' than the ones he was part of before," according to Dave Birkett of DETROIT FREE PRESS. There are "more people involved" in the Lions' present-day searches than there were in the '16 GM hunt or the '18 search for a coach. Lions Owner Sheila Ford Hamp, adviser Chris Spielman, VP/Football Administration Mike Disner and Wood have been "essential parts of this process," whereas it was just Wood and former GM Bob Quinn two years ago. The Lions have "interviewed eight candidates for the GM position and three for head coach so far." Wood and Hamp have a "better idea of each job's function." Wood said, "Being a general manager is not necessarily just picking players and putting a roster together, there’s more involved than that. So finding people who exhibit some of the skills that are required to be a good manager of people and processes, not just picking players." He added that for a head coach, he thinks "'leadership and somebody that can work with the general manager and somebody that has had experience either as a head coach or you can project that experience as a coordinator into being a head coach' are things that matter" (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 1/6).

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