INDIANAPOLIS – Head coach Dan Campbell spoke to the media Tuesday as a large contingent of Lions coaches, front office staff and scouts are at the NFL Scouting Combine to interview and evaluate 321 of this year’s draft eligible players.
Campbell’s media session covered a little bit of everything. Here are my five biggest takeaways:
1. Draft, develop and re-sign
It’s a philosophy Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes have seen eye-to-eye on since arriving in Detroit.
“Between Brad and myself, the success that we’ve had in places that we’ve been has really been that way,” Campbell said. “That’s what it comes from. You want to be a good team you have to draft well and then you re-sign those guys. That’s your core.”
Free agency is a tool to fill in the gaps, per Campbell, something Holmes also talked about after the season when he said their priority is to focus on re-signing some of their core players to extensions this offseason instead of dedicating a ton of resources to free agents.
Campbell made a good point a little later on when he talked about how the advantage of re-signing players is you already know their personality and how they fit into the locker room. In free agency, that isn’t always the case.
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