Lions News

[Cody_Russell]

The Carolina Lions making moves. Best of luck to Chark.

[whatever_gong82]

We all should meet up and hang out! I will definitely be there.

I wish I could, but I live in the Southwest US now, and my job doesn't leave me with enough $$$ to fly up to Detroit.

I'll probably need to save my next income tax refund in order to get an airplane ticket next year.

[Nick Pappageorgio]

Since we have so many picks the first few days….I was thinking about taking Liam to KC and doing the draft this year

[whatever_gong82]

The Carolina Lions making moves. Best of luck to Chark.

Now, we'll probably draft a Wide receiver in the first round, 2nd round, or 3rd round.

On top of that, we still have to get a viable backup QB for Goff.

Brad Holmes is going to be busy between now and the NFL Draft next month.

[chemiclord]

I'll admit I find it curious that he was willing to take a "prove it" deal with a team that is almost assuredly going to be starting a rookie QB next year.

Carolina must have offered some serious scratch.

[ghandi]

I didnt see the terms either other than it was a one year deal......JaMo has to step up now.

[Forsh]

I'm not bothered. Chark was very inconsistent

[Futureshock]

I wish I could, but I live in the Southwest US now, and my job doesn't leave me with enough $$$ to fly up to Detroit.

I'll probably need to save my next income tax refund in order to get an airplane ticket next year.

Road Trip!!!!

If you start now you can row the boat here in time

[jaadam4]

Chark is fighting for targets with St Brown and Williams. Chark wants long term money and he’ll get WR1 targets in Carolina. It’s a smart move

[NewOrleansLion]

I just looked at the roster, and an outside receiver is a glaring need. Reynolds isn’t scaring anyone when they go 3 wide, and if there’s an injury, you’re looking at Trinity Benson or Cephus. Yikes.

[Futureshock]

They say a NFL team's WR corps should be like a BB team with different body types. Chark served a specific purpose that we don't currently have. He was our PF. Jamo seems more like a SF

[chemiclord]

Meanwhile, the Lions have re-signed Sudfeld, no doubt showing Holmes that QBs are scarce, and finding a "legitimate backup" is either A) expensive or B) on a rookie deal.

[froot loops]

I'm not sure how interested the Lions were in bringing Chark back. He signed a one year $5 million with the Panthers and they negotiated for the better part of a week.

[Tom]

Valenti seems to think the Sudfeld signing is an indication that the Lions will go QB at #6.

[whatever_gong82]

1st of a 6 part article from today's Athletic.

C.J. Gardner-Johnson and Aaron Glenn are back together, ready to take the Lions to the next level



Colton Pouncy


Mar 24, 2023


It was 2015 at Nike’s World Headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., home of “The Opening,” a high school football showcase highlighting the future of the sport. A young C.J. Gardner-Johnson, barely old enough to drive, was one of the participants. As a four-star recruit mulling offers from the best of the best, Gardner-Johnson walked around those practice fields with his chest puffed out and his arms flexed. After each pass breakup, there he was, in the face of the receiver he’d just neutralized, reminding him all about it in real time. He’d clap and nod and laugh and aggravate — all the things that make for a pest of a defensive back.


You were going to feel his presence. He made sure of that.



Aaron Glenn, a former Pro Bowl cornerback who was an assistant defensive backs coach with the Browns at the time, volunteered at the event helping out former teammate Ray Mickens, working directly with Gardner-Johnson and the defensive backs. The teenager’s on-field antics didn’t faze Glenn. If anything, it’s how he endeared himself to the NFL assistant. Glenn understood it was simply how Gardner-Johnson was wired and part of what had gotten him that far. But if he didn’t change his habits, it would only get him that far.



Glenn’s hang-up with Gardner-Johnson was rooted in technique and coachability. At certain times, Glenn would instruct him in a specific manner or provide him with a straightforward assignment. When the seven-on-seven contests began, Gardner-Johnson would abandon those instructions, going rogue on an NFL coach as a high schooler. Again and again and again. Finally, Glenn had seen enough.



“He benched the sh– out of me,” Gardner-Johnson told The Athletic on Monday, laughing.



“He was thinking I was gonna sit him out for a play,” Glenn said, recalling the story a day later in a conference room at the Lions’ practice facility. “Nah, that’s not how this works. I’m not one of these high school or college coaches that’s gonna kiss your butt. If you’re not doing it the way I’m telling you to do it, then you just not gonna play.”



Gardner-Johnson, prideful but eager to return to play, would later apologize. Glenn accepted the apology, using the event as a teachable moment for a young kid with all the potential to make it far in this sport. From that point forward, a relationship between two DBs by trade who didn’t see eye-to-eye quickly developed into a binding one rooted in football. There’s a genuine admiration and a mutual understanding of what it takes to be a successful defensive back. It’s why Glenn and Gardner-Johnson maintained contact after The Opening. As the years passed, both player and coach ascended in their respective careers.


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