Thank you. And welcome to first bite our Detroit Lions offseason preview podcast where we are starting to talk about the Detroit Lions offseason.

Their GM search, their head coaching search.

My name is Jeremy Reisman.

I am the host of First Bite and managing editor of Pride of Detroit. Detroit. With me as always is my co-host,

Ryan Matthews at Ryan underscore POD. Brian, how you doing tonight? I'm doing well. You're definitely

both of those things, Jeremy. I wasn't sure if you were unsure of whether or not you're both

things, but you 100% both of those things, my man. You know, we're recording on a Friday. I'm thinking about the weekend. I'm thinking

about maybe a day off, so I'm not, I'm not in business mode here. But we got to get to business

mode here because on these preview podcasts, we've been talking about the head coaching search. We've

talked about a couple head coaching candidates, but the GM search is really heating up for the

lions. They've got a couple interviews already in the bag. They got one coming up that I want to talk about tonight.

And that is a former Houston Texans GM, Rick Smith. And so we've got a very special guest with us today to break down.

Tell us all about him. Aaron Wilson at Aaron Wilson underscore NFL, the beat writer for the Houston Chronicle.

Aaron, how are you doing tonight? Doing great, guys.

How are you?

Great, great.

I want to jump right into this.

Chris Bealman talked this weekend.

He talked a lot about the culture and building the culture in the line.

So I want to know just, you know, who is Rick Smith as a person?

If he's trying to build a culture, what kind of culture is that? Who is he, is he, you know, kind of an authoritarian type?

Is he more of a caring type?

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