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Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

Lions Mid-Week Mailbag: Reacting to Brad Holmes Interview & Free Agency

Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

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4.4957 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Pride of Detroit Mid-Week Mailbag, Jeremy and Erik react to everything surrounding the Detroit Lions’ free agency and the comments from GM Brad Holmes during his latest interview. Using your questions, the guys break down Holmes’ strategy, the moves Detroit has (and hasn’t) made, and whether the team is sticking to its long-term vision or leaving opportunities on the table. They also discuss remaining roster needs and what could still be coming as free agency continues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Dell.com slash Del PCs. Welcome to the Midweek Mailbag, your Detroit Lines Midweek, where we answer your Detroit Lions questions right here live on YouTube, live on Twitch, and of course available at any podcasting platform that you desire.

0:46.9

We are back after a week and a half off.

0:51.9

Quite a bit has happened in the interim.

0:54.4

The lines have made the majority of their free agency movies move since we've last talked.

0:59.1

And of course, we had Brad Holmes' podcast appearance over on the Lions Collective.

1:02.8

We're going to get into all of that as based on your Detroit lines questions.

1:07.3

But first, let me introduce both of us.

1:09.4

My name, of course, is Jeremy Reisman. I'm the producer of pride of detroit you can find me on socials at detroit online and with me is as always the offseason general manager the machine and at eric slid on twitter it's eric slit eric. Hey, bud. Welcome back to you. I feel like I've

1:29.6

been here all along. I suppose that's true. It's, it's, it's, it has had a lot, a lot of stuff going on. The

1:39.2

lines have had a lot of stuff going on. We're the last 10 days. And so, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's interesting to, uh, to, to, to, to, to break down, you know, what the fans are interested in listening talking about today. Yeah. Um, and let's jump right into it. I'm going to pair a couple of questions here together from Twitter, um, because it kind of sparks a conversation that I was literally just having on

2:01.6

Twitter right before we went live here that I think is an interesting topic to discuss.

2:04.9

So we're going to we're going to smush together.

2:07.1

Damien Smith and our good friends at Talking Grit, their questions together.

2:11.2

Damien asked if Tarion Arnold works out, won't he also have to be paid next off season?

2:15.6

How many players can they give eight figure contracts to?

2:19.0

Won't the lines be forced to pay the, play the comp pick game at some point as they can't pay everyone?

2:23.9

They successfully draft and develop and talking grid asks kind of a similar question about Branch.

2:28.7

If Branch comes back healthy and commands a top of the market safety contract,

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