3. The player-run practice in Allen Park was a big headline last week. “Let’s see what you guys do with it,” Campbell said in the team meeting announcing how practice was going to go. “Make it your own.” To me, the footage of practice showed the Lions have a pretty mature bunch of professionals on this team. Plus the line from quarterback Jared Goff about not needing coaches got a chuckle out of me.
4. It took four episodes, but we finally got some good camera time on Goff, who is arguably the most important player for the Lions to be successful in 2022. He’s looked great in camp, and it was good to hear some of those same remarks from quarterbacks coach Mark Brunell and Campbell. I’ve been really impressed with Goff’s performance over the last month.
5. Defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn is a fiery coach, we’ve seen that in previous episodes, but I liked the fact that he was mad and wanted his defensive players to take it personally with how the offense worked the defense over pretty good in a recent practice. Goff completed 16 of 18 passes in the practice Glenn was referring to, and Glenn let his defense have it. The offense got the better of the defense early and often in camp, but the defense has stepped it up of late.
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