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Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

PODcast: Frank Ragnow Finally Speaks + Way-Too-Early Lions Bold Predictions

Pride of Detroit: for Detroit Lions fans

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News, Sports News, Sports, Football

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The Pride of Detroit PODcast crew breaks down the biggest takeaways from Week 3 of Detroit Lions OTAs, including Frank Ragnow's emotional farewell and retirement comments, the latest injury updates in the secondary, Ennis Rakestraw's impressive offseason, and whether Giovanni Manu could eventually move to guard. We also make our way-too-early bold predictions for the 2026 season, including big expectations for Jahmyr Gibbs, Alim McNeill, Drew Petzing, Derrick Barnes, and the future of Detroit's offense and pass rush. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Thank you. What's going on, Lions fans, welcome to the Pride of Detroit, POD, cast.

0:52.9

You're home for all the latest and

0:54.1

greatest Lions News, updates, analysis, and so much more. I'm your host, Miko, joined once again by my amazing co-host, both Brian Matthews and Jamie Reisman. But we're going to get to you guys in a second because we have some pretty interesting things to talk about in today's podcast. We are going to be recapping some of our other big takeaways from week three of otaes frank ragna

1:13.6

recently talked to the media and we finally got some

1:15.4

insights into what all kind of transpired with his retirement. And later in the podcast, we are going

1:20.6

to give some of our way to early bold predictions because there's still a lot of offseason

1:25.0

to kind of get to. So why not talk about things that are just, you know, way too off in the distant in the future. But before we get to that, let me give a chance for our co-host to kind of introduce themselves. First and foremost, we have your senior editor over at pride of Detroit.com. Ryan Matthews at Ryan underscore POD. Ryan, how are you feeling? How does it feel to know that you two one day could be the

1:45.2

GM of a Stanley Cup winning hockey team? Miko, never let your dreams die. Okay. You know,

1:52.0

what happened last night in the Stanley Cup finals is a testament to perseverance and will.

1:58.0

And even a lowly old blogger can eventually be at the helm of the Stanley Cup winning

2:04.5

franchise. That's all you got to do, right? I don't know how many articles you have to like

2:08.3

necessarily bank in order to like, you know, kind of unlock that achievement because that's kind of

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