Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more unusual.
ESPN’s Adam Shefter is reporting that the Detroit Lions IT (information technology) director, Steve Lancaster, will be stationed in a Winnebago in Bob Quinn’s driveway for the 2020 draft, ready to address “any technical issues”.
With the NFL holding a virtual draft in 2020, Quinn and the Lions appear to be taking no chances that they will have any technological mishaps when they are on the clock during the draft.
At his virtual press conference last Friday with local media, Quinn laid out how the Lions were adjusting to the parameters of a virtual draft.
“I’m at my house, I have a home office that I use occasionally during the season and occasionally during the offseason – not very much – but I’m staring at a TV to my right. I have three monitors to my left, I have two laptops. I have a huge, what we would call our draft phone, I have my home phone. I have two cell phones, and I have a printer.”
Quinn went on to mention that the team had backup plans for the internet, power sources, and phones for each staff member’s home who will be involved in the Lions draft.
Now, with Lancaster and a Winnebago involved, Quinn has apparently taken another step to make sure they are prepared.
