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Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption NFL Week 7 overreactions: Kyler Murray and Cardinals have arrived SportsPulse: The Kliff and Klyer experiment got their first signature victory against Seattle in an instant classic. Mackenzie Salmon overreact to the biggest storylines from Week 7 in the NFL. Todd Gurley unsheathed the knife,

Carlos Monarrez   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions Matt Patricia on the hectic Atlanta Falcons finish Detroit Lions coach Matt Patricia on Oct. 26, 2020, said it’s tough for a player to stop his momentum if tacklers are close. The Falcons know that now. The Detroit Lions were losing, but not

Carlos Monarrez   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption NFL power rankings 7.0: Cowboys come crashing down and there’s a new number one SportsPulse: The Cowboys are currently a bottom five team and we have a new number one after the Green Bay Packers got throttled by Tampa Bay. Mackenzie Salmon reveals our biggest

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia is confident in Stafford in crunch time Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia on Oct. 25, 2020, talks situational football and his quarterback’s play in big moments after a win against the Falcons. ATLANTA — Detroit Lions wide receiver Marvin Jones was a bit

Shawn Windsor   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia is confident in Stafford in crunch time Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia on Oct. 25, 2020, talks situational football and his quarterback’s play in big moments after a win against the Falcons. ATLANTA — Kenny Golladay is playing the best football of his

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption NFL power rankings 7.0: Cowboys come crashing down and there’s a new number one SportsPulse: The Cowboys are currently a bottom five team and we have a new number one after the Green Bay Packers got throttled by Tampa Bay. Mackenzie Salmon reveals our biggest

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia is confident in Stafford in crunch time Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia on Oct. 25, 2020, talks situational football and his quarterback’s play in big moments after a win against the Falcons. ATLANTA — It took 57 seconds for T.J. Hockenson to

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia is confident in Stafford in crunch time Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia on Oct. 25, 2020, talks situational football and his quarterback’s play in big moments after a win against the Falcons. ATLANTA – Matthew Stafford had his helmet on, hoping for

Carlos Monarrez   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption You can’t read too much into Detroit Lions’ win over Jaguars, right? Dave Birkett, Carlos Monarrez and Shawn Windsor break down the Detroit Lions’ win over the Jaguars and if it’ll snowball into something else. Todd Gurley was not happy. Actually, he was a lot

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia is confident in Stafford in crunch time Detroit Lions’ Matt Patricia on Oct. 25, 2020, talks situational football and his quarterback’s play in big moments after a win against the Falcons. ATLANTA — Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett grades the

Tyler J. Davis   | Detroit Free Press An NFL game was won Sunday via a walk-off 48-yard PAT on a drive that followed an accidental touchdown. Yes, you read that right. A bizarre ending fit for a Detroit Lions-Atlanta Falcons game included Todd Gurley trying not score (but doing so anyway), a miraculous catch, a review

Carlos Monarrez ,  Shawn Windsor ,  Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Free Press sports writers predict the NFL’s Week 7 Detroit Lions game against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday at 1 p.m. from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Carlos Monarrez  The Falcons have a potent offense, but their defense is terrible. The Lions are a more

Ryan Ford   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Debating how big a challenge Atlanta Falcons pose for Detroit Lions Talking Detroit Lions and the playoffs, and debating the game against the Atlanta Falcons and the challenge they pose in Week 7. Filmed Oct. 23, 2020. Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn raised some

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Debating how big a challenge Atlanta Falcons pose for Detroit Lions Talking Detroit Lions and the playoffs, and debating the game against the Atlanta Falcons and the challenge they pose in Week 7. Filmed Oct. 23, 2020. The Detroit Lions are getting some help for

Detroit Lions (2-3) vs. Atlanta Falcons (1-5) The coaches: Lions-Matt Patricia (11-25-1 overall, 11-25-1 with Lions); Falcons-Raheem Morris (18-31 overall, 1-0 with Falcons). Last game: Lions beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, 34-16; Falcons beat the Minnesota Vikings, 40-23. Last meeting: Sept. 24, 2017: Falcons won, 30-26. For subscribers: ‘This (bleep) gone cost you!’ Kenny Golladay wants

Carlos Monarrez   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Debating how big a challenge Atlanta Falcons pose for Detroit Lions Talking Detroit Lions and the playoffs, and debating the game against the Atlanta Falcons and the challenge they pose in Week 7. Filmed Oct. 23, 2020. Kenny Golladay is going about this all wrong.

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption You can’t read too much into Detroit Lions’ win over Jaguars, right? Dave Birkett, Carlos Monarrez and Shawn Windsor break down the Detroit Lions’ win over the Jaguars and if it’ll snowball into something else. One week it’s Adrian Peterson. The next it’s D’Andre Swfit.

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press The Detroit Lions are mostly healthy heading into Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons. The Lions (2-3) listed just one player on their Friday game status report, ruling out cornerback Desmond Trufant for the second straight week with a hamstring injury. Trufant, who has played in parts of two

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Hear the personal story of why Iowa’s Matt Nelson wants to be a doctor Iowa’s Matt Nelson has a family reason for studying medicine; he also enters his senior year as healthy as he’s ever been The plan is ultimately what sold him, and Matt

Dave Birkett   | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption You can’t read too much into Detroit Lions’ win over Jaguars, right? Dave Birkett, Carlos Monarrez and Shawn Windsor break down the Detroit Lions’ win over the Jaguars and if it’ll snowball into something else. That s— is definitely going to cost them, and the