Lions owner supports coach, GM amid 1-5 start

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Naturally, Detroit Lions proprietor Sheila Ford Hamp admits she's frustrated with the 1-5 commencement to the 2022 NFL season, but inactive feels that caput manager Dan Campbell and wide manager Brad Holmes are the close radical to pb the rebuild.

Ford Hamp fielded questions from reporters for 4 minutes during Wednesday's signifier wherever she was asked if their jobs could perchance beryllium successful jeopardy nary substance the extremity effect of the season.

"I judge successful the leadership," Ford Hamp said.

Ford Hamp took implicit main ownership of the Lions successful 2020 aft serving arsenic 1 of the team's vice chairs from 2014-19 to win her mother, Martha Firestone Ford, who stepped down.

The Lions are coming disconnected 24-6 nonaccomplishment astatine Dallas connected Sunday -- which was their 4th decision successful a row.

They're 4-18-1, truthful far, done the 2nd play of enactment with Campbell and Holmes, but she feels they are making progress.

"It's conscionable this was a immense teardown and past turnaround, and we truly -- we're lone a 3rd of the mode done the season," Ford Hamp said. "We've got 11 much games to go, truthful I conscionable don't privation to ruin it, propulsion the panic fastener and springiness up the vessel due to the fact that I deliberation we've got the close radical successful spot to propulsion this off, and I genuinely judge that. And I wouldn't accidental that if I didn't judge it."

Ford Hamp called this rebuild a pugnacious process and said it's hard to enactment disciplined due to the fact that "no 1 hates losing much than I do, much than my household does, but we've got to benignant of gut done it."

The Lions presently person the longest existent drought betwixt postseason victories successful the NFL with their past playoff triumph coming much than 3 decades agone connected Sunday, Jan. 5, 1992. They haven't won much than six games oregon finished with a .500 grounds since 2017.

"Everyone's frustrated. I'm frustrated, but again, I truly judge successful what we've got and what we're going to be," Ford Hamp said. "It conscionable takes time."

Entering the bye week, Campbell says helium held a speech with Ford Hamp wherever they went done a thorough, heavy dive of the roster -- some bully and atrocious -- to person a wide knowing of the team's direction. As an ex-Lions player, who experienced the dreadful 0-16 play successful 2008, Campbell tin subordinate to the long-suffering ownership and instrumentality basal who are starving for occurrence and is trying to alteration the "Same Old Lions" communicative contempt yet different unsmooth start.

"Yeah, I told her everything that I saw, things that we needed to beryllium amended at, offensively, defensively, peculiar teams, myself, and moving forward, practice," Campbell said. "So, really, everything. Everything that I had looked astatine our squad and felt similar we needed to beryllium amended at. I shared each of those thoughts with her and wherever we were going moving guardant and that was it, truthful she's been informed."

Turnovers and cardinal mistakes, specified arsenic the 5 turnovers successful the 2nd fractional of Detroit's astir caller nonaccomplishment to Dallas, person been costly this season. However, Ford Hamp acknowledged the young players connected the roster and however they're experiencing increasing pains. That's 1 of the galore reasons that she said she has patience with the existent regime.

"What I truly person assurance successful is the process we went done successful the archetypal spot erstwhile we hired Brad and Dan," Ford Hamp said. "It was highly thorough, and we truly judge we've travel up with the close people, truthful I can't remark connected different teams' rosters oregon what they had successful the archetypal place. All I cognize is what we had and wherever we're going."