Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Morning Lions Links for Tuesday 1-19-21

Articles:


Detroit Lions land 3 players on PFWA’s All-NFC team for 2020 season:  https://www.mlive.com/lions/2021/01/detroit-lions-land-3-players-on-pfwas-all-nfc-team-for-2020-season.html

Lions adopting Rams-like organizational structure with new GM, coach, Mike Disner reporting to Rod Wood:  https://www.mlive.com/lions/2021/01/lions-adopting-rams-like-organizational-structure-with-new-gm-coach-mike-disner-reporting-to-rod-wood.html

Calvin Johnson opens up on riff with Lions: ‘It straight up stung’:  https://www.mlive.com/lions/2021/01/calvin-johnson-opens-up-on-riff-with-lions-it-straight-up-stung.html




Dan Campbell won't meet with Lions until Wednesday, as he holds exit interviews with Saints' players:  https://lionswire.usatoday.com/2021/01/18/dan-campbell-wont-meet-with-lions-until-wednesday-as-he-holds-exit-interviews-with-saints-players/

Holmes Gave 'Cutting, Honest' Assessment of Detroit Lions Roster:  https://www.si.com/nfl/lions/news/brad-holmes-gives-assessment-lions-roster

Report: Brad Holmes has ‘bold’ plan for roster; Mike Disner to help operational side:  https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2021/1/18/22236997/detroit-lions-gm-brad-holmes-bold-plan-roster-mike-disner

Free agent profile: Despite down year, Matt Prater should be re-signed:  https://www.prideofdetroit.com/2021/1/18/22236840/detroit-lions-2021-free-agent-profile-matt-prater-re-sign

Monson: Breakout candidates for all 32 NFL teams (DETROIT LIONS: WR QUINTEZ CEPHUS:  With most of the Detroit receiver corps slated to hit free agency, there should be a big opening at the position for a player like Quintez Cephus to capitalize on. If Matthew Stafford remains a Lion, he will also have a solid quarterback to get him the ball. Cephus saw 32 targets as a rookie, catching 20 of them for 349 yards and two scores. He generated a passer rating of 120.4 and should find himself significantly higher on the depth chart this season than he was as a rookie. Cephus has an excellent opportunity to be a much bigger player for Detroit in Year 2.):  https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-breakout-candidates-for-all-32-nfl-teams

MMQB: Chad Henne Puts Away a Chiefs Win; Title Games Set (The Lions’ hire of Brad Holmes is right along the lines of what they were looking for. We told you a couple weeks ago that Detroit would, first and foremost, be looking for a scouting type to be its new general manager, and would set things up to support that person. That’s where they arrived this week in landing Rams college scouting director Brad Holmes for the job. And in landing Holmes, the Lions really looked at GM Les Snead’s department in L.A., and said, give us that. Detroit liked hearing from Holmes about how the Rams do things differently, mixing analytics and an intellectual way of looking at players with traditional scouting, while seeing that he’d change some things too. In fact, one big moment in the interview came when Holmes was asked by the Detroit brass to go through each of the four GMs and five head coaches he’d worked with, and identify one thing he learned from each of them, and one he didn’t like that he’d do differently than them. One by one, Holmes calmly and logically knocked those out, then gave a cutting, honest assessment of the Lions roster, and a bold plan for what he’d do if he landed the job. And when asked about the hole in his resume—that he lived in Atlanta for a team that was in L.A.—Holmes joked that he may have actually been bordering on California residency, with all the time he was out West during the year to pitch in during vital junctures in the calendar. Add that to Holmes’s involvement in building a playoff roster without a first-round pick the last four years, and the Lions felt pretty good coming out of the first round of interviews about how Holmes would fit in. And how he’ll fit in actually meshes really well with what Holmes is accustomed to. In order to get the GM job closer to a true scouting job, the Lions are putting VP Mike Disner in charge of much of the football-operations end of things, which means Holmes won’t have to worry about managing areas like travel, nutrition, training and equipment. And Disner, Holmes and the new coach (presumably, Saints assistant Dan Campbell) will all report to Lions president Rod Wood. That’ll make Disner’s job description mirror Rams VP Tony Pastoors’s job description, and Holmes’s mirror Snead’s, with Wood in the role of Rams COO Kevin Demoff.):  https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/01/18/mmqb-divisional-round-chad-henne-chiefs-bills-packers-buccaneers

NFL free agency 2021: The free agent each NFL team can't afford to lose (DETROIT LIONS: WR KENNY GOLLADAY - The Lions' top two receiving weapons, Golladay and Marvin Jones Jr., are set to hit free agency this offseason. The new head coach and general manager in Detroit should make it their top priority to retain Golladay.  Among all wide receivers who have seen at least 20 contested targets over the last two seasons, Golladay converted contested targets into receptions at the fourth-best rate in the NFL, with exactly two-thirds of his contested targets ending up in his hands. Michael Thomas, Corey Davis and Chris Godwin are the three wide receivers ahead of him, so he’s clearly in elite company.):  https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-free-agency-2021-one-free-agent-each-nfl-team-cant-lose


2021 NFL Draft:

Florida LB Ventrell Miller could provide badly needed depth for Lions:  https://gatorswire.usatoday.com/2021/01/17/ventrell-miller-florida-gators-linebacker-detroit-lions-match/

101 best players in college football from the 2020 season:   https://www.pff.com/news/college-football-101-best-players-2020


Dez Fitzpatrick, WR, Louisville – NFL Draft Player Profile:  https://www.profootballnetwork.com/dez-fitzpatrick-wr-louisville-nfl-draft-player-profile/


2021 Senior Bowl:

NFL draft: DeVonta Smith hopes to make case at Senior Bowl to be Dolphins' No. 3 overall pick:  https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-draft-de-vonta-smith-hopes-to-make-case-at-senior-bowl-to-be-dolphins-no-3-overall-pick-190919625.html
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