Sheldon White knows the Detroit Lions have to start winning immediately if he's going to keep his job as interim general manager.

“We have to win,” White said. “Will I be a candidate (for the GM job full-time)? I can give you the best way to be a candidate is to win games. Obviously, if we don’t, then I won’t be a candidate. But if we win these games and we find ways to get better and improve our roster, maybe I will be.”

White is in his 19th season with the Lions.

“I love the clarity that Mrs. Ford told me,” White said. “She told me she’s hiring me as the interim general manager, but the reality of it is, this isn’t a Supreme Court justice appointment. The only person with a lifetime appointment in this building is our owner, and so the way I look at everybody, we’re all interim general managers, we’re interim coaches, we’re interim players. Eventually, it’ll be over, and we’ll be telling stories.”