The Lions' Pride

I'm surprised you asked me about the quarterback...

Both those kids have done really well. They've had a good summer and a good preseason. I'm not a guy that plays two quarterbacks but we'll play both of them.

And shocker..not

My thoughts exactly.

We'll see who starts Saturday with the first possession.

Bolden and McGloin have had more exposure, they have had more confidence in themselves. Hopefully we'll be better offensively, hopefully up front. The whole grouping is better. Some of the wideouts are more confident in what they see. They've got a better feel for one guy's speed compared to the others. All of those, there's a lot of little things that go into it. In the spring practice they've worked together and in the summer. All of that obviously makes the better. Just being around the people you're going to play with over a period of time helps you out.

Losing Fera hurts, but we won't know how much until we play some games we won't know how much. Right now I'm optimistic.

Just dumb all around. It'll be really interesting to watch who benefits from certain situations in games. (field position, defensive schemes playing against, etc..)

By benefits I mean if they are using this game to judge the QBs.

And Joe doesn't know what is going to happen moving forward because the good lord hasn't told him?? Please tell me they do know what is going to happen week 2 and they aren't seriously just praying for 1 guy to force their hand. Please tell me they are better at evaluating talent than this.

On coaching from the sidelines - 'I'm trying to be!' Medical people want him upstairs but that's 'for the birds.' Probably 50/50 on that.

Johnnie Troutman is going to play a lot. Our problem right now is that we're shallow a couple of offensive linemen to feel comfortable that we had a backup guy at every position. I'm not sure that we are. Troutman can play either guard. We're not sure which one we're going to start. I'm not sure if we'll start Troutman or Urschel. If we start Urschel, he gives us a backup center if we need it. Mike Farrell is learning both tackles and I think we'll be OK if we just stay healthy for a while. We'll get a couple of younger kids and see some kids that are just feeling the ropes, we'll get some depth in there. If we get a couple of injuries there we might have some problems early.

Joe on who will start on Saturday - 'I don't know, I don't think it makes any difference. Who starts, I don't know. We've got three days of practice left.'

The problem with the thing last year is where did one kid go. We used up a year and his family was concerned that he wouldn't get an opportunity to play. I tried to get it across to his family that spring practice would play a big part in his situation. We spend all this time talking about the quarterbacks, I feel good about the quarterbacks.

I think last year I wasn't demanding enough toughness. I think we're in a better position to play 60 minutes of solid football.

I enjoy starting a new season. It's hard to believe I'm going to start my 62nd year, and yet I'm as excited about it and nervous about some things. I wasn't sure how good our practice was yesterday, our coaches thought it was good, but I wasn't happy with the enthusiasm and stuff. After talking with the staff, I guess it was a good practice. There's 1,000 things that you have to be able to handle. I have a checklist to make sure we're not overlooking something. I'm anxious to see us play, I really am. I enjoy it, I like being out there. I like practice. I feel better this year - until I got bumped up a little bit - I could do a lot of things that I used to do and hopefully I can do that next week. I feel good. I get up in the morning looking forward to it.