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. Topic # 1 – Bart’s Fruit Market I grew up in Houghton Lake where Bart’s Fruit Market is a staple of the community. The original “Bart” was Don Bartholomew, father of one of my best friends from way back – Mark. Mark was the youngest of 8 kids in the family. When I say we w

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. Isaac TeSlaa on Day 7 of OTAs - Photo by Jeff Nguyen/Detroit Lions Lions Players, Coaches and Team Lions posted photos from Week 3 OTAs: Day 7, Day 8 and Day 9. We get our first look at rookie Skyler Gill-Howard and TeSlaa immense athletic ability. Check out the OTA Week 3 recap from Saturday Updates on injuries t

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