It’s official. The Detroit Lions and their fans have taken over Munich, Germany, ahead of their Week 10 matchup against the New England Patriots. Lions legends like Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson are tapping kegs along with principal owner and chairwoman Sheila Hamp. Big Sean is in town. Lions star wide receiver Jameson Williams is taking his love for McDonald’s across the pond.
In the middle of the Honolulu blue wave, we are also getting some excellent content. From Jeremy Reisman singing, “Hail
to the Victors,” with other Lions fans, to the exclusive interview Colton Pouncy of The Athletic landed with Lions general manager Brad Holmes.
You’ll want to read the interview with Holmes, especially since it covers his mindset on the NFL trade deadline and his message to fans who think he is being complacent.
“Complacency doesn’t exist in our process,” Holmes said. “We made the moves that we made because we got a player that we liked on a deal. Whatever we did, it’s not indicative of our work ethic or complacency or our process. The trade deadline happens to have a title on it, but it’s really not any other different week besides — you might get an uptick in phone calls, but we’re calling and working the phones all year. Like, we’re doing this stuff in August and September, October. We’re doing this all the time, year-round. So, there’s no complacency. Nobody’s in position to be complacent. You’ve probably heard me say multiple times, I never think it’s enough. No matter how talented our roster gets, it’s never enough. And once you think it’s enough, that’s when you’ll get beat. So, there’s never complacency.
You can read the entire article from Pouncy right here.
And now, on to the rest of the best Lions content from this week.
- Lions special teams coordinator Dave Fipp with an awesome tribute for veterans everywhere on the heels of him being named the Salute to Service nominee in Detroit.
- We also have another story from Will Burchfield of 97.1 on Lions left guard Christian Mahogany taking full responsibility for what happened prior to the Week 9 win in Miami.
- Kegatron is really good.
- Richard Silva of The Detroit News wrote a great piece on Lions star receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown being the face of American Football in Germany.
- Ben Raven of MLive wrote about how Lions owner Sheila Hamp was blown away by Lions fans making the trip.
- Dan Campbell will always prevail.
- Justin Rogers of the Detroit Football Network was kind enough to record Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown’s time on stageduring the Fan Fest taking place in Munich.
- Also of The Detroit News, Nolan Bianchi spoke to St. Brown about his desire to play Flag Football for Germany in the next Olympics.
