Lions GM says team is 'not scared' of meeting high expectations for 2023 season

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The Detroit Lions closed out the 2022 season on a hot streak, which has fueled higher expectations than the team has had in quite some time. The Lions finished the year with a winning record and narrowly missed the playoffs.

When the 2023 NFL season kicks off next week, the Lions will begin their quest to meet those raised expectations. 

Brad Holmes, the team's general manger, spoke with reporters ahead of Detroit's highly anticipated regular season and said he hopes to avoid another slow start to the season.

"It's not so much about the start. We all want to start fast, and you don't want to be in a 1-6 hole again, but we're just taking it step by step, phase by phase, really. And that's just how we roll," Holmes said.

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Brad Holmes, general manager of the Detroit Lions, speaks to reporters during the NFL Draft Combine at the Indiana Convention Center March 1, 2022, in Indianapolis.  (Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

The Lions open the regular season Sept. 7 on the road against the defending Super Bowl-champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Despite not winning their division since 1993, the Lions enter this season as the favorite to win the NFC North. In 1993, the Lions were playing in a division known as the NFC Central.

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Holmes noted the team is feeling confident heading into 2023.

"We’re not scared of the expectations," Holmes said, via ESPN. "The expectations are earned through, I think, what we’ve built and what we’ve done up until this point in terms of how we finished the end of the