ALLEN PARK -- Some football coaches will continuously attempt to force players who are square pegs into the round holes of their scheme. Jim Caldwell, hired by the Detroit Lions this offseason, doesn't want to be that kind of coach.

While Caldwell, as well as coordinators Teryl Austin and Joe Lombardi, will certainly bring specific schematic elements to the table, Caldwell ultimately aims to construct a playbook built around the strengths of his players.

"I think that's really our job, just in terms of coaches, is number one to implement a system we think is going to be effective, that we believe in," Caldwell said. "It's structured as such where most of them are pretty voluminous, but we structure them in such a way that we make certain we try to use the best of a player's ability. We have to look at everyone, particularly the quarterback because he's the guy that's going to run the show. He's the trigger man."

Although the players weren't allowed on the practice field, the Lions began the installation process last week, during voluntary workouts. Quarterback Matthew Stafford called the process exciting.

"This is the first week we're allowed to be in the facility and just trying to watch some old cut-ups of other teams that have played under both our coaches' systems," Stafford said. "Trying to figure out where we want to go with it."

Lombardi, speaking to season ticket holders earlier this week, reiterated Detroit's offense will be heavily influenced by the scheme ran in New Orleans, where he spent the past seven years as an offensive assistant and quarterback coach.

He also said the Lions will incorporate elements from the offenses Caldwell ran in both Indianapolis and Baltimore, as well as what some of the assistants used at their various collegiate and professional stops.

"We're going to borrow and steal from all those different systems, and really in November you're going to see a Lions offense," Lombardi said.

Running back Reggie Bush, who joined the Lions last season as a free agent and posted a career-high 1,512 yards from scrimmage, believes the team has personnel versatile enough to do whatever the coaches want.

"That's the great thing about the people, the guys we have here," Bush said. "We have some explosive players on the offensive side of the ball that can do pretty much do anything. It's going to be exciting. Whatever it is, the situation calls for, I think we'll be able to answer and do it well."

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