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All right, John, we're going to time his 40-yard dash.

She is making his way over.

Not exactly sprinting, but we will be joined by the general manager of the Detroit Lions, Brad Holmes, momentarily. Yeah, just a few moments. We could see him. Lions are out on the practice field. They got practice going on. We're going to be out here as a station. A bunch next week, too, as the Lions gear up for the season. Yeah, Brad, we're on the air, buddy buddy let's get going let's do it good to see you we were watching your your walk

over we were timing you're 40 and we noticed you weren't sprinting when was the

last time you did a 40 oh my gosh 2000 2002 in the spring

when I ran for the scouts and he rejected me and said I wasn't going up to play in the NFL

There's no gray in the beard back then

I'm trying to become a scout

Well okay so let's talk about camp so far and just the energy and the mentality for you guys going into the season. How you feel?

Yeah, the energy has been great. I think Dan's done an incredible job of making sure that the message has been clear. The tone has been said.

You know, obviously we got a lot of new faces from a coach of staff standpoint and they brought a ton of energy. So I think I think everything's been a smooth

transition. You know, staying relatively healthy. A couple, you know, that you, you know, would like to

have better outcomes. But for the most part, you know, it's been pretty good. Challenges for you

are different than they were when they took over the job. What are the challenges that you have in this training camp with this team right now?

Man, that's a really good question.

As the roster has improved, and it really was kind of like that we first started seeing those challenges in the draft, really,

on the approach that we took is that, you know,

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