As they do every normally scheduled week, the three Detroit Lions coordinators met with the media on Thursday morning. Rather than pepper our front page with a lot of little stories from those three press conferences, I’ve gathered the main takeaways from each session.
Here are the most notable storylines from offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, and special teams coordinator Dave Fipp.
1. Don’t assume Levi Onwuzurike is going to play this week
With Alim McNeill out, there’s an opportunity for many Lions defensive tackles to step up and reclaim a job—or, as Dan Campbell put it earlier in the week, “prove their worth here.