Jim Schwartz, new Lions head coach

After their most disastrous season in their span at the NFL, the Lions have acquired a new head coach. This time the opportunity came for Titans’ former Defensive Coordinator Jim Shwartz, who had been with Tennessee for eight years.

Shwartz is entering the Lions with a four-year deal on his hands, and Detroit is trusting that the 42 year old head coach is going to raise up their defensive level as they finished last in the league this season in points allowed and in yardage also.

Jim Shwartz led the Titans to achieve position #1 in most defensive categories this 2008 NFL season, now he’s faced with a tough scenario heading the Lions, and one of the main concerns for Shwartz right now must be the coming NFL draft and taking the right decision when picking their first round player.

The Lions have struggled with bad draft pickings during the last decade, with only Herman Moore, Calvin Johnson and mainly Barry Sanders as the exceptions, the rest of the players chosen have resulted in waste of talent cases.

Schwartz got his start in the NFL thanks to Bill Belichick, who hired him to do research for him when he was head coach of the Browns back in the middle of the 90’s, after such period, he went into the staff of different college and NFL teams assuming coaching or administrative positions. Such teams include the Ravens, the Titans in NFL and NC Central, Minnesota and Maryland in college.

The newest Detroit head coach clearly knows what he’s facing, "Obviously, a lot of holes," was his answered when asked about the Lions’ roster, and of course it is almost impossible for him to turn Detroit into a team like the Falcons or the Jets, but he can certainly bring improvement and help the Lions to reach a better position than this year’s.