Detroit Lions: Is an offensive or defensive head coach a bigger advantage?
By Robert Jones
Will the Detroit Lions have more of an advantage with an offensive or defensive head coach?
The Detroit Lions season is mercifully over. Now the real work begins as Sheila Ford Hamp and her advisors will sift through all the general manager and head coaching candidates to find new leadership for the Honolulu Blue and Silver.
It won’t be easy and nothing is a given, but many of the names that have already been interviewed and several that are scheduled to be interviewed are legitimate candidates. I think there are a few combinations that would actually give the Lions fan base some hope.
For the last 60 plus years ‘hope’ has been the only thing that Lions fans have had. Just desperate, stinking hope that this blind squirrel of a franchise would find a nut.
Because even when the answers have seemed to be obvious, they still have eluded this franchise. In other words, even a blind squirrel has 20/20 vision compared to the Detroit Lions.
Earlier this week team president Rod Wood said that he was in favor of retooling rather than rebuilding. However, he quickly followed up by saying that decision would be made by the new general manager and head coach.
That is the hope of the Lions fans base, that Sheila will finally hire a general manager and head coach that have the leadership and vision that can turn this woebegone franchise into winners. Then the common sense to allow them to do it.
Ultimately, any general manager and head coach will fail if their game plan is compromised. Like so many that have come through Detroit before and were strongly influenced to follow an altered path from the one they believed in. A good hire can go south quickly if that hire isn’t allowed to do what they were hired to do.
The Lions’ next general manager has to be good at talent evaluation and the head coach has to have the ability to get his players to execute efficiently and play at their highest level. But in today’s NFL, is there an advantage in having an offensive head coach over one with a defensive background?