Episode #180: Brad Holmes hired as GM
Detroit Lions Breakdown
Erik Schlitt and Joe Kania
5.0 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This week the guys discuss the Detroit Lions’ search for a new general manager, how the team landed on Rams director of scouting Brad Holmes for the job, as well as project how this hire will influence the coaching search.
- Exploring how Holmes became the Lions next GM
- The Lions interviewed 12 candidates, Holmes was the 9th one
- Final 4 candidates: Brad Holmes, Ed Dodds, Jeff Ireland, and Terry Fontenot
- Holmes was first up to get a 2nd interview (in-person)
- He was offered a contract at the conclusion of the meeting
- Holmes accepted the contract, a 5-year deal
- Shelia Ford Hamp and Rod Wood deliver statements
- Reviewing Holmes history, including his 18-year rise through the Rams organization
- Examining Holmes approach to scouting/evaluating
- Keep an eye on the Rams at Packers, Saturday, 4:35 pm EST on FOX
- Rams 2021 free agents will be important to know
- Rams’ safety John Johnson was profiled ahead of last weekend’s Playoff game
- Is Rams’ DC Brandon Staley now in the mix?
- Lions Completed 6 head coach interviews, with the 7th coming on Friday
- Marvin Lewis, Former Bengals HC, currently an assistant at Arizona State(background)
- Eric Bieniemy, Chiefs’ OC(background)
- Darrell Bevell, Lions’ OC
- Robert Saleh, 49ers’ DC(background)
- Dan Campbell, Saints’ TE coach, Asst. HC (background)
- Arthur Smith, Titans’ OC (background)
- Todd Bowles, Bucs’ DC, Former Jets’ HC (background) — interviewing on Friday
- Smith to have a second interview with Lions on Friday
- Spots still available: Chargers, Eagles, Falcons, Jets, and Texans
- Jaguars signed Urben Meyer — will the dominoes start falling now?
- We dive back into the listener’s mailbag and answer a handful of questions.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Detroit Lions Breakdown podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Joe Kaine. |
| 0:06.0 | With me as always is Eric Schlett from USA Today, Lions Wire. |
| 0:10.0 | Eric's also our Detroit Magazine's 20-second most below college or blogger. |
| 0:16.0 | Drake, Float Lions Newsday today, maybe, flow lines newsday today. |
| 0:23.3 | Maybe the sloth of the year. |
| 0:25.3 | We got a big one. |
| 0:26.5 | We hit the right day to be doing our podcast on a Thursday with the hiring of Brad Holmes. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.9 | Pulled them away from the Los Angeles. |
| 0:34.7 | It gave him a five-year deal. |
| 0:36.3 | So let's talk about Holmes. |
| 0:38.6 | Yeah. So Holmes is a guy who, because of the playoffs, you didn't get a chance to see him |
| 0:47.4 | in the early portions of the podcast or at the pocket, sorry, of the interview process, right? |
| 0:55.6 | You saw like six or seven, seven players, candidates that were interviewed ahead of him. |
| 1:03.8 | He was actually the ninth one, but there were seven candidates that weren't tied to |
| 1:07.6 | playoff teams that got interviewed right off the bat. |
| 1:13.4 | And so the lines were really spreading themselves across the board trying to get some experience and familiarize |
| 1:18.7 | themselves with the available people. And then the back half, the last five guys, were all |
| 1:24.3 | guys that were on playoff teams or, well, then there was patten who was on a non-playoff |
| 1:30.7 | team but so the four of them were on playoff team so they waited until this kind of second wave |
| 1:36.5 | of interviews to to get the homes here and so he ends up being the ninth one he has a very nice |
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