Source: David Birkett, Oakland Press
Last year I felt good about the locker room, but there was an undertow that you couldn't necessarily put your finger on," Kitna said Friday after the Lions concluded their spring workouts with an open practice at Detroit Renaissance High. "I think we've rid ourselves of that, of the undertow."
The Lions spent the winter shedding themselves of veterans like Dre Bly, James Hall and Mike Williams. In their place, second-year coach Rod Marinelli targeted high-character acquisitions that Kitna said have made the locker room a better place. "The credit goes to Marinelli," said receiver Mike Furrey, the NFC's catch leader of a year ago. "I think what he did last year was he was going to take everybody in this locker room and he was going to challenge them to the deepest that they could get to and if you were going to survive you were going to be here and if you didn't survive you weren't going to be here. You were messing up the chemistry of this team. "There's a trust factor in this locker room now that was not here at all last year. There was different segments and groups all around the locker room and now it's one group and one team. It all looks good right now." Said Kitna, "It was different in Cincinnati because you just felt like it was a whole organizational thing. Here you just feel like, for whatever reason, it's been kind of in the locker room, and now the consistency we're getting from the top down here, that's great. "From ownership on down, I think the organization here is much more solid and sound than what was going on with Cincinnati."
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