We got 27 minutes with Ben Raven.

We talk Lions' new addition to the personnel department in the front office and OTAs week two.

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It is indeed a Wednesday week two of OTAs. Ben Raven, joining us from

MLive.com. Does a great job covering, of course, your Detroit Lions and fresh off graduating

from grad school at the Harvard of the Northeast. That would be one Syracuse universe. Benjamin,

what's happening, my man? Yes. That's right. I appreciate that. Yeah, I got Otto on my head right here. How do you cover the lions and finish grad school? Did you have any time to sleep? No. No. No. I mean, even people ask me that all the time. It's like, it was wild. I cut off my social life for 18 months, you know. I mean, there were Saturday nights. I mean, we travel on Fridays for Sunday games. I mean, most of my Saturdays were spent doing online lectures, working on assignments. I mean, for 18 months. I mean, it was it was nonstop outside of a week or two here or there. But yeah, it was a, let's just say, I'm very happy to just be a lion's beat writer again, you know. Well, that's pretty impressive, man. Congrats on that. Always read Benstuff at MLive.com. Of course, he and Corey with the podcast as well. I've been so OTA's week two the news of the day

is Chris Greer new front office edition for this team the former Dolphins general manager and a

friend of Brad Holmes is coming on as a personnel executive thoughts on that at all.

I mean, anytime you can add someone with 25 years of experience in the NFL, I believe nine as a general manager, like no matter how you feel about those nine years as a general manager, that experience and that length of experience, that's rare. That is rare, especially his age, mid 50s, 56 years old. And I just think the shared background with Holmes, the relationship there, I mean,

the scout assistant director of college scouting and the director of college scouting and then

GM, I mean, that's a pretty similar path that Brad Holmes took.

Now, I know what the dolphins were.

I mean, they did have a couple of good, exciting years there, but just anytime you can

add someone of that

experience. And I think I saw Justin Rogers reporting that it's not a role to replace or

anyone on the way out or pending on the way out. So like anytime you can add experience and

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