Allen Park — Six games into his first season with the Los Angeles Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford is posting the best numbers of his career. That’s impressive when you consider he spent more than a decade breaking franchise passing records with the Detroit Lions. In Los Angeles, Stafford’s rocket arm has been unleashed to full
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — There’s a common courtesy in the NFL: When a reporter from a player’s former team travels to his new city in order to get a one-on-one interview for a few minutes, the request is almost never denied. But Matthew Stafford said no Wednesday. He turned me down. He also turned down
The anger is still there. The bitterness at how it ended. Five seasons, three playoff trips, one Super Bowl appearance and so little respect for his role in it all. But when Jared Goff returns to Los Angeles this week to face his old team, the Rams, the Detroit Lions quarterback insists none of that
One day about a year after her husband collapsed on the turf at Tiger Stadium, Sharon Hughes picked up her nearly 3-year-old son to feed him. “Momma, where’s Daddy?” asked little Brandon Shane Hughes. “Well, honey, he’s gone to heaven,” she told him. “Well. He left his car,” Brandon said. “Oh, you’re right,” she offered, nodding
There’s a smile-inducing photo Sharon Hughes loves that was taken when her husband, Chuck Hughes, played for the Detroit Lions in 1970 and 1971. It was snapped during a party. To Hughes’ right are running back Steve Owens, the 1969 Heisman Trophy winner from Oklahoma and Chuck’s road-trips roommate, and Greg Landry, the Pro Bowl
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Matthew Stafford know how lucky he is. And if he didn’t, he only needed a phalanx of reporters peppering him with questions about his 12 years with the Detroit Lions and how they compare to what this season with the Los Angeles Rams, where he’s an MVP candidate on a 5-1 team. “I
Of all the sentiments Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is feeling days ahead of facing his former team for the first team, gratitude appears to be leading the way. After a dozen years with the Detroit Lions, the team that drafted him No. 1 overall in 2009, Stafford requested a trade this offseason and was shipped to
In their three seasons together, Tracy Walker saw plenty of good and some bad from Matthew Stafford. And as they get ready to face each other as opponents for the first time Sunday, Walker said he picked up some tells from his former quarterback that he hopes will help the 0-6 Detroit Lions get their
Allen Park — Jared Goff is still bitter about the way his time with the Los Angeles Rams ended, but the Detroit Lions quarterback is appreciative of the way former coach Sean McVay bemoaned his and the organization’s approach to trading Goff this offseason. “Yes, I wish there was better, clearer communication,” McVay said Monday, when
Allen Park — The Detroit Lions have two weeks to decide whether offensive tackle Taylor Decker will be able to play this season, and heading into Wednesday’s practice, coach Dan Campbell acknowledged he’s not sure which way it’s going to go. Decker suffered a finger injury in the week of practice leading into the season opener and
Already without their best offensive lineman for the remainder of the season, the Detroit Lions could be losing another. Lions coach Dan Campbell said Wednesday there is a chance left tackle Taylor Decker could miss the rest of the season with the finger injury he suffered in September. Decker was hurt four days before the
Justin Rogers, James Hawkins, John Niyo and Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News offer their predictions for Week 7 of the NFL season. All picks made against the spread. Detroit +13.5 at L.A. Rams Rogers: L.A. Rams Hawkins: L.A. Rams (best bet) Niyo: L.A. Rams Wojnowski: L.A. Rams Denver +6 at Cleveland Rogers: Cleveland Hawkins:
No film review this week. At 0-6, I don’t need the tape to me how the Detroit Lions are playing. Instead, I’m answering your questions with my first Lions mailbag in a while. You had some good ones this week, including one of the trickiest questions out there, which is where we’ll start. Should Lions
Detroit — It’s tempting, sure. It’s tempting for Lions fans to pine for the days of ol’ No. 9 slinging the ball deep, firing it sidearm, leading the Lions to 9-7 and the brink of playoff success but never getting there. Don’t do it. Don’t look back. Go ahead and look away if you must on
As you might expect with a winless team a month and a half into the season, the Detroit Lions have many issues. But if they could correct just one — their inability to put points on the board early in games — they might have a chance to secure their first victory. Following the team’s 34-11 loss to the
If it had to happen, it’s fitting this was the way it did: On a field goal by a kicker they cut, from half a world away, followed up by a brutal loss to one of the NFL’s most historically inept teams. That confluence of events — Matthew Wright made a field goal in London
If he could have a do-over, Sean McVay would handle Jared Goff’s offseason trade to the Detroit Lions for Matthew Stafford differently. “I wish there was better, clearer communication,” McVay told reporters Monday, via ESPN. “To say that it was perfectly handled on my end, I wouldn’t be totally accurate in that. I’ll never claim
I was at a Detroit Lions game this preseason when I ran into a longtime NFL scout I know who asked what I thought of the team Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell had assembled. They were young and thin, I told him, and I wasn’t buying what the Lions were doing on offense. Their receiving
I like Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell — a lot. He is as genuine and refreshing as an A&W root-beer float at sunset, as fiery as a ticked off rattlesnake, as open and honest as a full blast of truth serum and as caring and compassionate as a Hospice worker — a trait uniquely useful
Dennis Franks, who played football at Michigan in the early 1970s and then four years in the NFL, including the 1979 season with the Detroit Lions, has died. Franks, 68, suddenly passed away last Saturday, according to a social media post by Market America Worldwide for which he was executive vice president. He is survived
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