Brad Holmes has now been GM of the Detroit Lions for about five and a half months and during a recent interview with DetroitLions.com, he divulged what has been the hardest part so far.
“The most difficult part, I’d say, is finding the time and carving out the time to do the pure evaluation and scouting of football part of it,” Holmes told detroitlions.com in a recent interview.
“Now that’s why you have to have a great staff around you that you really, really trust,” Holmes said. “I do think we have that with Ray Agnew and Lance Newmark and John Dorsey. You trust those guys to make sure that when you can’t get to it, those guys you know are taking care of it and getting to it.”
“I started talking to other GMs about it and then they say, ‘oh yeah, between the hours of 8-5 you aren’t getting a whole lot of football stuff done,” Holmes said.
“Things are a lot smoother now,” Holmes said. “And I think we have a great staff and a great process in place. I’ve been able to get down (to some of the stuff I want to get to).
“But we’ve been very, very busy still just with staffing, process planning and getting new systems in place.”
Something tells us that it will not take very long for Holmes to learn the ropes as he is willing to do whatever it takes to win a championship.
