The Detroit Lions Podcast

Detroit Lions Crossing The Summer Hump In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris and Jeff react to the happenings over the course of the summer for the Detroit Lions. We're half way through the dog days of the NFL summer and the Detroit Lions are quietly poised to make some big moves during the 2023 NFL season. The Lions have upgraded almost across the board positionally, and have put th...

Detroit Lions Offseason Chronicles The Detroit Lions Podcast's own Michael Grey brings you another edition of the "Detroit Lions Offseason Chronicles". In this episode he takes a little bit deeper look at why you can feel good about what the Detroit Lions are building right now. Not just with the roster, but how the team is focusing on the Lions coaching staff. Grey walks you through their success...

Detroit Lions Summer Has Begun In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris and Jeff react to the beginning of summer for the Detroit Lions. Summer's arrival is looked forward to and welcomed almost universally. While football is away there are a number of things to keep fans occupied and their minds away from the gap in significant Detroit Lions news. For the Detroit Lions Podcast its an o...

Detroit Lions 2023 Spring Season Ends In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris and Jeff react to the end of the Detroit Lions 2023 spring season. OTAs, minicamp, interviews, all of it gone. Ending like the turkey at the hands of the Bumpuses dogs in, "A Christmas Story." Disaster is ready to strike NFL fans everywhere as just about any positive, meaningful bit of news about fans' teams...

What Matters In Detroit Lions Offseason The Detroit Lions Podcast's own Michael takes a step back with Detroit Lions fans to talk about what really matters in the Detroit Lions Offseason. Of course player news and performance are hot topics, but questions how much it really matters. What about the new look Detroit Lions Defense or Ben Johnson's playbook - does what we see really matter in June? Of...

Detroit Lions 2023 Minicamp Begins In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris and Jeff react to the first day of Detroit Lions minicamp. We'll go through our minicamp notes for the first day of minicamp as well as catch up on breaking news from the last week. We'll also talk about Dan Campbell's visit to the West side of the state and what that might mean for the Detroit Lions before the...

Detroit Lions June 1 OTA Notebook The Detroit Lions Podcast's own Jeff Risdon was in Allen Park at the Detroit Lions second OTA session open to the media on Thursday, June 1st. Risdon provides this update directly after the OTA session. One big question staring the Detroit Lions in the face this year was Jared Goff and his confidence. How was he going to look and could he build upon his success as...

Assessing The Detroit Lions Culture Every year a different team in the NFL takes a surprising leap forward, last year the Detroit Lions undoubtedly took their turn moving toward becoming darlings of the NFL. A vast majority of the time, when teams flash this way, it is for a season, and then they regress to the mean and what everyone thought was an emerging force in the NFL becomes another flash i...

Detroit Lions Options To Sign DeAndre Hopkins Whenever you say his name three times, Ash pops up with the most important cap information for any player who lies in the realm of consideration for the Detroit Lions. Today is no different, after yesterday's Detroit Lions Podcast episode where Chris wondered aloud about what it would take and what the implications might be for the Detroit Lions to sig...

Detroit Lions 2023 OTAs Are In Full Swing In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris is joined by Jeff Risdon to react to the Detroit Lions rookie class and share our first impressions from the Detroit Lions OTA workouts. The team is in Allen Park beginning to work together for the first time as the core components of the 2023 Detroit Lions roster. Players are showing off what they have a...

Detroit Lions May OTA Report The Detroit Lions are on the field for OTAs and its the first open practice of 2023 OTAs and Jeff Risdon of the Detroit Lions Podcast was there to witness the entirety of the open session. In this video he covers everything he saw and heard on the Detroit Lions practice field in Allen Park. Detroit Lions Podcast Ongoing Credentialed Coverage One of the first big storie...

Detroit Lions OTA Grab Bag As the Detroit Lions get ready to kick off this week's OTA sessions the Detroit Lions Podcast Michael Grey takes a look at a grab bag full of topics affecting the Detroit Lions right now. From just how tough and resilient these Detroit Lions players are, to some extremely favorable odds from ESPN nerds for the Detroit Lions to win the NFC North in the 2023 NFL season. De...

Jack Campbell Not Destined To Repeat Detroit Lions History Its fun to reminisce about the glory days of Chris Spielman playing linebacker for the Detroit Lions. Those were some great years for the Detroit Lions at that position. Since then it seems that it might have taken getting Spielman in the Detroit Lions front office to bring the team back up to that level of play at linebacker. There's stil...

Interview With Detroit Lions DT Brodric Martin Chris and Jeff are back with a special edition of the Detroit Lions Podcast! Detroit Lions defensive tackle Brodric Martin joins us to share the latest from Lions camp, his draft story, and share a special message with Detroit Lions fans. Detroit Lions Podcast Brings Special Message to Fans From Brodric Martin Detroit Lions fans will agree that Brad H...

Detroit Lions Offseason Workouts Underway In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris is joined by Michael Grey to react to the Detroit Lions rookie class and share our first impressions from the Detroit Lions rookie mini camp and offseason workouts. Much of the team is in Allen Park beginning to work together for the first time as the core components of the 2023 Detroit Lions roster. Play...

Welcoming The Detroit Lions Rookie Class The Detroit Lions Podcast takes a look at the Detroit Lions rookie class through the eyes of Michael Grey. He discusses some of the excitement, the opportunities, and some of the challenges that Brad Holmes Detroit Lions rookie class is facing. From the opportunities that come from playing on a time rising like Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions to some of the ri...

Detroit Lions Challenging The First Round Running Back Myth A lot of people have been spending their time on the internet and at the water cooler explaining (in the most condescending way) why Brad Holmes and the Detroit Lions were completely wrong in taking running back Jahmyr Gibbs in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft. Detroit Lions Podcast Ash Thompson spends some time walking you through y...

2023 Detroit Lions Schedule Announcement - Detroit Lions Podcast Reacts In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris and Jeff react to the Detroit Lions 2023 schedule announcement. They go live right after the NFL releases the 2023 schedules and break down the Detroit Lions schedule, plusses, minuses, and more. Detroit Lions Podcast Reacts to 2023 Detroit Lions Schedule https://www.youtube....

Let's Play Armchair GM For The Detroit Lions The draft is over, the Detroit Lions schedule is about to be released by the NFL, and then after a few weeks of practice, the NFL world will slow down for almost a month. With a month of NFL news being made and a little more than two months until the Detroit Lions training camp kicks off, Michael Grey takes a look at what he might do in this time leadin...

Detroit Lions Draft Deep Dive Part Two With a little time to process the results of the Detroit Lions 2023 NFL Draft, Scott Bischoff shares his thoughts on Brad Holmes choices in the 2023 NFL Draft for the Detroit Lions Podcast. This year's NFL draft left a lot of Lions fans confused about positional value. It left a number of draft "experts" confused as well. Some were outwardly critical, others...

Detroit Lions Draft Deep Dive Part One With a little time to process the results of the Detroit Lions 2023 NFL Draft, Scott Bischoff shares his thoughts on Brad Holmes choices in the 2023 NFL Draft for the Detroit Lions Podcast. This year's NFL draft left a lot of Lions fans confused about positional value. It left a number of draft "experts" confused as well. Some were outwardly critical, others...

Whats At Stake For Detroit Lions In The Next Few Months Now that the Detroit Lions have chosen their draft picks and made their moves in the 2023 NFL draft, they can begin putting their team and its final playbook together. While the team begins its work with rookie camp and OTAs, there are a few things that stand out as potential risks for the team over the next few months in 2023. Michael Grey a...

Detroit Lions 2023 NFL Draft Reaction In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris and Jeff react to the Detroit Lions 2023 NFL draft performance. We'll discuss draft value and positional value that the Detroit Lions landed and how/why the perception of the team's performance is so varied across the draft media outlets. The two-day event of the Detroit Lions Podcast 2023 NFL Draft Party wil...

Draftermath: Learning About Brad Holmes, Detroit Lions in 2023 NFL Draft In the aftermath of the 2023 NFL draft pundits, draftniks, and experts everywhere are all over the board trying to react to Brad Holmes and the Detroit Lions player and pick choices in the 2023 NFL draft. The fact that so many were so wrong this year begs us to take a step back and think about what is different about Brad Hol...

8th Annual Detroit Lions 2023 NFL Draft Party - Rounds 2/3 Live! In this episode of the Detroit Lions Podcast, Chris is joined by Ash Thompson to host the 8th Annual Detroit Lions Podcast 2023 NFL Draft Party. Everything Brad Holmes, the scouting department, and the entire front office has done since the end of the Detroit Lions season has been focused on today - the first round of the 2023 NFL dr...