Detroit Free Press

For everyone who preached a “wait and see” attitude toward Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff before the season began … well, we have waited, and we have seen Goff prove he’s not the answer. While the sixth-year QB is ninth in passing yards (1,995) and 14th in completion percentage (66.9%), he has struggled at stretching the
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Taylor Decker is off the injured reserve, but it remains to be seen when he might play this year. The Detroit Lions activated Decker and Kevin Strong, the team announced Tuesday. Tommy Kraemer, a backup offensive guard, was waived as well. As the Freep’s Dave Birkett reported last week, the Lions had to take Decker off the
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Jermar Jefferson slammed into his own blocker and barreled across the goal line midway through the fourth quarter of Sunday’s 44-6 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles when his mind went briefly blank. A seventh-round pick out of Oregon State, Jefferson dropped the ball as he stood up to celebrate his first career touchdown and was
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Michael Brockers said it best. After his team was humiliated, dragged around Ford Field by the hair in Sunday’s 44-6 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, the Detroit Lions defensive lineman spoke these words: “The coaches can’t want it more than the players. We have to want it more than the coaches.” He’s absolutely right. Anything
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The Detroit Lions were driving me bananas, playing pathetic, uninspired, mistake-filled, what-a-waste-of-a-day football against a bad, boring team. This has to be rock bottom, right? This horrible, unacceptable, dumpster-fire of a game? “That was brutal,” said Lions coach Dan Campbell after Philadelphia demolished the Lions, 44-6. “We got out-coached today; we got outplayed.” Yep. That covers
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Thirteen years ago, the Detroit Lions became the first team in NFL history to go 0-16. If they don’t stop making self-inflicted mistakes in all three phases of the game, one player said the organization is headed for an even more shameful finish this season. CARLOS MONARREZ: Lions’ humiliating loss to Eagles is their worst
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Dan Campbell is easy to like. He’s honest, raw, empathetic and serious. Clearly, he cares. As much as anyone who has held his seat. Right now, though, the Detroit Lions’ head coach is lost. What’s worse, he’s got nowhere to go. About the only thing he doesn’t have to worry about is going winless for the season. That’s already
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Free Press sports writer Carlos Monarrez answers three questions from the Detroit Lions’ 44-6 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles at Ford Field. SUNDAY STRUGGLES: Detroit Lions, Dan Campbell looked lost Sunday. They’re not far from finding 0-17 finish How bad was this loss? No way to sugarcoat this one, even though it happened on Halloween.
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D’Andre Swift, by design, has hovered around the 20-touch mark most of the season. Swift has battled a groin injury since the start of training camp, and the Detroit Lions, wary of overworking their No. 1 running back, have split their rushing workload between Swift and Jamaal Williams. But with Williams inactive for today’s game against
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