Welcome to Mickey's Musings, my weekly notebook where we skip the linear narrative and dive straight into three completely unrelated, but entirely fascinating storylines that are bouncing around in my head. Taylor Swift Patient Zero Video “I’ve gotta be honest, I’ve been expecting your call. No, it’s not a bad time at all I heard somebody saying there’s trouble in paradise And my lips are sealed tight now” That’s the first verse of Taylor Swift’s song Patient Zero. There’s t

Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. Dan Campbell was the guest on Ep 155 of the St Brown Podcast Lions Players, Coaches and Team Check out our recap of the Lions drama-filled win in OT over the New Orleans Saints Derrick Barnes started the day dressed like a superhero (Spiderman) and closed it having possibly been the best Lions defender on the fiel

The scoreboard and W-L record reads differently than after Week 1 in 2025, but it sure feels like the Detroit Lions lost their initial game of the 2026 season. After playing fantastic on defense for a half, and the offense seemingly two to three mistakes away from cruising to a blowout win, the wheels absolutely came off the defense in the second half. The offense played well for most of the game, keeping Goff mostly clean (8 QB Hits, but only 1 sack) and letting the running

Thursdays Practice Report brought no changes for the Lions, as everyone kept their same designation from the estimate for Wednesday. The Saints had no changes to the prior list either, except that they did add staring NT Davon Godcauz as No Practice, but it was only for rest. Week 1 Saints and Lions Practice Report #2 Saints Thursday: No changes from the estimates for the four players that appears on Wednesday, but starting NT Davon Godcauz sat out practice today for Rest an

The Detroit Lions held their Day 4 of training Camp on Sunday after taking Saturday off. As expected, there were a lot of updates and movement on injured players, Shep fille din for Campbell at the podium and the Lions had a national guest at camp. Oh, it was also the first day fans were in attendance, so that always gets the players excited. Lions TE Jackson Meeks and S Dan Jackson - Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions Injury Updates Updates from Dan Campbell's press event this morni

Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. The future St. Browns Lions Players, Coaches and Team Amon-Ra St Brown is now engaged to his fiancé Brooklyn Adams The Lions have released additional "Get to Know" Pick posts including Jimmy Rolder and Keith Abney II The Lions Jahmyr Gibbs was rated #2 RB in the league for an ESPN survey conducted with Executives,

Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. Jared Goff and Isiah Pacheco at Minicamp - Photo by Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions Lions Players, Coaches and Team Lions posted photos from Minicamp: Day 1 and Day 2. Check out our Minicamp Day 1 and Day 2 Recaps from last week Updates on injuries to Branch, Joseph and more Media Sessions with offensive and defensive

The fourth week of offseason workouts for the 2026 Detroit Lions has begun with mandatory minicamp, which will be the last two official team workouts before training camp starts in late July. Let's recap the most important bits of news that came out of the three-day camp from the press events, photos, interviews and boots on the ground from the Lions beat reporters. Photo - Jeff Nguyen Detroit Lions Injury Updates Dan Campbell gave some updates in his media press event on in

The first week of OTAs for the 2026 Detroit Lions has concluded and a significant amount of information came out from the press events, photos, interviews and boots on the ground from the Lions beat reporters. Let's recap the most important bits of news that came out of the three-day camp: Photo - Jeff Nguyen Detroit Lions Injury Updates Dan Campbell in his press conference on Thursday provided several key injury updates on players, including those that ended last year on IR

T-Minus 13 Days and counting down fast until the 2026 NFL Draft is upon us, and here at the Grey Manes, we have switched out focus almost exclusively to Draft Day. Last week, I ran a solo Mock Draft 1.0 through the PFFN Mock Draft Simulator and wrote about the journey on where I ended up. On the Pod last Tuesday , (7pm EST Tuesday Nights), Brent, Chris and I sat down and did a Live 1st Round Mock draft for all teams under some basic rules to see who the Detroit Lions woul

Welcome to The Grey Manes Monday Morning Rundown, a collection of news and notes form the prior week that impact the Lions, the NFL or whatever else catches my eye. Newest Lions OC Cade Mays at his introductory Press Conference Lions Players, Coaches and Team Lions to sign former Carolina Center Cade Mays to a 3-year, $25M deal with $14M fully guaranteed Detroit signs Isiah Pacheco to a 1-year deal to replace David Montgomery Detroit adds some depth at OT , with a kid who