Good start to my camp trip in Allen Park, Mich., a short drive west of Detroit. My takeaways from Lions camp …
1) One particular area where there could be a tangible difference is in the flexibility defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn will have on the back end, with Cam Sutton, Kerby Joseph, C.J. Gardner-Johnson and second-round pick Brian Branch among the pieces with the malleability to move all over the secondary. That should give Glenn a green light to be aggressively creative in playing mind games with quarterbacks.
2) Even at this early juncture, there’s a real efficiency to how the team is working—something that Dan Campbell, Jared Goff and Brad Holmes pointed out to me in a sitdown we’ll have up on the site soon. It is maybe the best indicator of where the program is heading into Year 3, and it shows how the players have truly taken ownership of what’s been built under the leadership of Campbell and Holmes. And yes, Campbell is still doing up-downs with the group.
