How many time have you heard, “the Detroit Lions are loyal to a fault,” or “the Lions take to long to fire somebody?”
Those are questions that have been asked way too often over the years as former Lions owner William Clay Ford was known for keeping coaches and general managers for way too long, despite them underperforming.
Well, according to Lions team president Rod Wood, those days are over.
On Monday, during a fan event in Grand Rapids, Wood said current Lions’ owner Martha Ford is not as patient as her late husband was.
From Detroit Free Press:
“The people at the top running the organization, myself included, setting the right tone, starting with ownership.”
“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 in video posted by Grand Rapids TV station 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, 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.”
Nation, what do you think? Have you seen a difference since Martha Ford took the reigns as Lions’ owner?
