Leadership key to improving Detroit Lions' performance, Jim Caldwell says - MLive.com
DETROIT -- If the Detroit Lions are going to build on last season's 11-5 performance, they're going to do so on the strength of the team's leadership. That's according to team president Tom Lewand and coach Jim Caldwell. Talking to an audience of more than 800 business leaders at the Detroit Economic Club luncheon at Ford Field on Wednesday afternoon, Caldwell said the team's leadership is the key to sustaining the momentum from last season. "Very rarely do you get in a situation where you have more than one leader in a room and we have several in every single room," Caldwell said. Caldwell, a meticulous planner, has gone as far as to share his full season plan with his team's leadership council in hopes they'll improve upon it. The coach has often said, "A good idea has no rank. "We've looked at every little inch of things we planned to do and how to march it off," Caldwell said. We'll set the plan, put it together and I'll let the leadership council take a look at it and see if they have any suggestions. "The guys in our locker room, it's up to them to keep the focus on the field and they've done a great job of that," he said. "When our leaders embrace that and they set the standard, it makes it really easy to keep the focus on football and not on other things. Source: www.mlive.com
