Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez look ahead to next week's start of organized team activities for the Detroit Lions.
Granted, they haven’t truly practices together yet, but the seeds of a budding new connection have been planted
They’re not finishing each other’s sentences yet, but wide receiver Marvin Jones and quarterback Matthew Stafford are beginning to develop a rapport that should serve both them and the Detroit Lions well this fall.
“We’ve had a month, a little over a month to get some camaraderie between the quarterbacks and the wide receivers and everything’s been good,” Jones said at the Taste of the Lions charity event this week.