Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez preview the Detroit Lions' third preseason game, Friday against the Buccaneers in Tampa, Fla. Recorded Wednesday, Aug. 22. Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press
To everyone worried about how much the Detroit Lions have practiced this summer, and how physical those practices have been, former Lions linebacker and Detroit Mackenzie star Pepper Johnson says you’re missing the point.
More padded practices are necessary, Johnson said, to teach the proper way to play a violent game.
“It was the whole meaning of pads in the first place,” Johnson told the Free Press in a phone interview Wednesday.