Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes spoke with the Detroit media for about 30 minutes following the team’s roster cutdown to 53 players earlier this week. With head coach Dan Campbell at his side chiming in here and there, Holmes laid out his vision for the team, how they came to certain decisions, and where he believes this team’s strengths currently are.
It was a pretty informative press conference, even if Holmes is a tad more evasive than his coaching counterpart.
Here are my five takeaways from Thursday’s press conference.
Holmes doesn’t think this wide receiver room is bad
Around the midpoint of the presser, someone asked Holmes if he could get a fair assessment of Jared Goff’s quarterback play this year given that his receiver group is not perceived to be very good.