The Lions are looking for some outside help for the next wave of executives to try to turn things around there.
According to Josh Katzenstein of the Detroit News, longtime Cowboys executive Gil Brandt said the Lions have retained Chicago search firm Heidrick & Struggles to help them find a new team president and General Manager.
Heidrick & Struggles is identified as helping the NFL hire Paul Tagliabue as commissioner in 1989, though Tagliabue was already working for the league at that time.
Teams hiring search firms isn’t unusual (the Jets paid for one to find John Idzik for them in 2013), and Lions owner Martha Firestone Ford made it clear upon firing Tom Lewand and Martin Mayhew they were beginning a national search.