INDIANAPOLIS — When Derrick Barnes showed up for his first day of work with the Detroit Lions last spring, he found a note from special assistant Chris Spielman in his locker.
"It said, 'What did I do today not to get cut?'" Barnes told me Saturday after the Lions' preseason win over the Indianapolis Colts. "I hung it up in my locker last year, I still have it in my locker to this day and it’s right. You got to come out and give your all every day. There’s people trying to take your job, and how do you separate yourself?