The Detroit Lions are entering this year with tremendous hype after winning eight of their final 10 games last season.
Lions general manager Brad Holmes isn't worried about the weight of the outside noise, though, since he believes his team has earned those expectations.
"We're not scared of the expectations," Holmes said Friday, per ESPN's Eric Woodyard on Friday. "The expectations are earned through, I think, what we've built and what we've done up until this point in terms of how we finished the end of the season and through our player acquisition process. But now we've got to just prove them right.