Welcome to First Bite, our Detroit Lines preview podcast where we're previewing the offseason.

And really, we're into it.

The offseason is underway.

The general manager search is starting to heat up across the NFL.

And we want to get into it.

We've been profiling candidates all off season. And we want to get to one. We've been profiling candidates all offseason.

And we want to get to one of the most popular candidates this week.

Ed Dodds is the topic at hand.

Lions expressed some interest in him earlier in the week.

So we're going to talk to him.

But before,

let's get some introductions out of the way.

I'm Jeremy Reism.

I'm one of the co-hosts of the Pride of the Pride of Detroit First Bite podcast.

With me as always is Ryan Matthews.

Ryan, how are we doing?

I'm doing well.

Things are moving at quite a brisk pace, aren't they?

Yes.

And we're at a point where I'm almost concerned by the time this is recorded.

It might be out of date, but we'll see. But I did want to get at Dodson because he's such a popular candidate, the current assistant general manager over at the Indianapolis Colt.

So we got a Dodds expert if there is such a thing that exists because as we were talking off air, not exactly a public figure, so to speak, over there at Indy.

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