Offseason Interview Series: Lions GM Brad Holmes
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🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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On the first edition of The Athletic Football Show Offseason Interview Series, Robert Mays sits down with new Lions GM Brad Holmes. They discuss Holmes’ acclimation to the role and the state of Detroit’s roster before diving into the Matthew Stafford trade. Holmes also breaks down the decision to draft Penei Sewell, how the league has changed since he first became a scout and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.7 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.0 | Really exciting show for you guys today. |
| 0:21.3 | Today we're kicking off what we're calling our offseason interview series. |
| 0:25.5 | Over the next couple months, we're going to have on NFL general managers, head coaches, |
| 0:30.1 | some really big name players, just for some in-depth football conversations |
| 0:34.4 | that sort of chats we often have on this show just with some of the most |
| 0:38.2 | important people in the NFL. |
| 0:40.2 | And we are kicking that off with Lions General Manager Brad Holmes. |
| 0:44.2 | Obviously, Brad's in his first year as the Lions GM. |
| 0:47.8 | First year GMs fascinate me. |
| 0:49.5 | That job and what it includes, I always pay attention to it because this is a situation where a guy is |
| 0:56.4 | walking into completely unknown circumstances, circumstances and people that he didn't choose. |
| 1:02.0 | And now they have to reshape it, him, Dan Campbell, and that staff into a winning team. |
| 1:06.5 | That's what they're tasked with. |
| 1:07.7 | And the early days of that journey, I could not find more interesting. |
| 1:12.6 | So I'm really excited to dig into that with Brad. |
| 1:15.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:18.8 | I am very excited now to welcome for the first edition of the Athletic Football Show interview series this offseason. |
| 1:25.9 | Detroit Lions GM, Brad, |
| 1:28.0 | how are you doing? Doing great. How are you doing, Robert? Thanks for having me. Thank you for doing this. I could not be more excited to chat with you. You guys are at kind of a fascinating point. Obviously, you taking over this year, the draft, not very far in the rear view of mirror, so we'll get into that a little bit. But first things first, |
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