Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes and coach Dan Campbell met with reporters today to address this week's roster shuffling and the upcoming season. Here are 10 quick thoughts from their 32-minute session:
1. Holmes and Campbell seem genuinely confident in the roster they've assembled, to the point that — for the duration of their news conference, at least — I had to re-evaluate my assessment that the Lions have one of the weakest all-around rosters in the NFL.
Both Holmes and Campbell noted that the Lions' strengths are in the trenches, which seems pretty obvious.