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LOS ANGELES – You know those movies where the couple splits up and next time you see them, the guy has a hot wife, a new sports car and a big job — while the woman has three screaming kids and a broken-down Ford Escape? That’s pretty much the Detroit Lions-Los Angeles Rams game today. Matthew

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — In the sprawling region known as Greater Los Angeles that stretches from the desert to the ocean, from the mountains to the valleys, where nearly 19 million people live and work in communities as diverse as their topography, there is one person who may be uniquely qualified to make a true

Free Press sports writers make predictions for the Sunday’s Detroit Lions‘ game, as they make their first trip to SoFi Stadium to face Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams in Inglewood, Calif. in Week 7 of the NFL season (4:05 p.m. Fox). If you’re not yet a Free Press subscriber, here is how you can support our staff

Bill Dow |  Special to Detroit Free Press On a gloomy, damp afternoon 50 years ago Sunday, 54,418 excited football fans made their pilgrimage to Tiger Stadium to see if the Detroit Lions, sporting a four-game winning streak and tied for first place with Minnesota in the NFC Central Division, could defeat the “Monsters of

Detroit Lions (0-6) at Los Angeles Rams (5-1) The coaches: Lions-Dan Campbell (5-13 overall, 0-6 with Lions); Rams-Sean McVay (48-22 overall, 48-22 with Rams). Last game: Lions lost to Cincinnati Bengals, 34-11. Rams lost to New York Giants, 38-11. Last meeting: Dec. 2, 2018: Rams won, 30-16. Key matchups Lions C Evan Brown vs. Rams

T.J. Hockenson’s play has declined as defenses have paid him more mind in recent weeks, and the Detroit Lions tight end said it is up to him to reverse that trend Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams. “I know what defenses think of how I play,” Hockenson said. “I know what they’re looking at when they’re seeing

Most weeks when he was healthy, Austin Bryant would play on the Detroit Lions’ “look” squad the past two seasons, giving the first-team offense looks its opponent would show in that week’s game. That meant rushing Matthew Stafford — but not touching him in his red no-contact jersey. Every now and then, Bryant said Stafford

Most weeks when he was healthy, Austin Bryant would play on the Detroit Lions’ “look” squad the past two seasons, giving the first-team offense looks its opponent would show in that week’s game. That meant rushing Matthew Stafford — but not touching him in his red no-contact jersey. Every now and then, Bryant said Stafford

Amon-Ra St. Brown is third on the Detroit Lions with 24 catches for 204 yards through six games. A fourth-round pick out of USC, he stopped to answer five questions for the Free Press this week. You grew up in the Los Angeles area. You went to USC. You play Sunday in L.A. against the

He is the best defensive player in football —- still. Maybe the best player, period. And the Detroit Lions are well aware of how hard it will be to stop him. “Aaron Donald, they just move him to so many different places,” Lions offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn said Thursday. “He is not a stationary target,

Chris Spielman will forever have a place among the Detroit Lions greats. The Lions will induct Spielman into their “Pride of the Lions,” which honors the best players in franchise history, at the team’s Oct. 31 game against the Philadelphia Eagles. “The Detroit Lions could not be prouder of Chris Spielman’s accomplishments on the field

The Detroit Lions were so bad on offense in last week’s loss to the Cincinnati Bengals that offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn said Thursday he could not find one redeeming thing his unit did well on the field. “Not a damn thing,” Lynn said. “Every game up until then I could come here and I could have

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

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

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

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

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

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