The Mitten takes a couple of days off (sorry about that) and two-thirds of the football teams I cover hire defensive coordinators.
Today’s High Five:

For the Lions it’s Gunther Cunningham, Kansas City’s defensive coordinator for the last several seasons and a former Chiefs head coach. Here’s the standard bio and here’s Tom Kowalski saying Cunningham is [...]

Today’s High Five:

The Lions hired Tennessee defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz to be their next head coach.
Tom Kowalski, who might be the best beat reporter in the history of sports, has been all over the story, even predicting early in the day that the Lions’ silence meant the team was close to an announcement. He’s got [...]

The Lions reached an agreement this afternoon for Tennessee defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, 42, to become Detroit’s new head coach. Soon we’ll begin analyzing what Schwartz will mean for the franchise, but first let’s examine how the Lions’ management team of Martin Mayhew and Tom Lewand searched for and settled on Schwartz in the first [...]

Today’s High Five:

Who should the Lions draft at #1? Tom Kowalski recommended USC safety Taylor Mays, but that’s a moot point now that Mays is staying in school.
Lots of other folks think it should be Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford. But . . . Bradford isn’t coming out, either. So the Lions have the top pick [...]

Today’s High Five:

Great update from SI’s Don Banks on this year’s NFL coaching carousel, specifically how Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo may not get a head coaching job, even though he’s been generally considered to be the top candidate. Banks also says the Titans’ Jim Schwartz would be a good fit in Detroit.
Schwartz met with [...]

Today’s High Five is a precursor to a post on the Lions’ coaching search that I’ll put up a little later. So first:

The weekend’s NFL games broke well for the Lions, meaning that most of their candidates’ teams lost and are now available for interviews.
Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz is in Detroit today for a [...]