ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions toed the practiced fields at team headquarters on Sunday for the third day of training camp. Here are some observations.
-- It was the third day of camp, but the first with pads. And you didn't have to be Vince Lombardi, or even Joe Lombardi, to see the difference. Hell, you could hear it. The shoulder pads were cracking during a series of drills designed to ratchet up the physicality. That includes some one-on-one work between the offensive and defensive lineman, always a camp classic and one of my personal favorites. But there were some new drills too.