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Justin Rogers | The Detroit News In his first comments since the Detroit Lions agreed to trade him to the Los Angeles Rams, quarterback Matthew Stafford said the conversations with the team prior to the deal were the most difficult of his life. Speaking with close family friend and WDIV reporter Hank Winchester in a segment

John Niyo | The Detroit News Unable to read the whole story? Sign in or subscribe here. They saw what you saw. So we’re all on the same page to start with, at least, when it comes to the Lions’ defense. And that’s more than we’ve been able to say here in a while. Because it

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News The Detroit Lions have holes all over the roster, but none bigger than at receiver, where Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones, Danny Amendola and Jamal Agnew are all scheduled to be unrestricted free agents next month.  And while the Lions might find a way to keep Golladay in the fold,

Justin Rogers | The Detroit News Several years ago, while serving as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Eagles, team security director Dom DiSandro told Duce Staley he needed to see this high school running back generating some serious buzz around town. So Staley and DiSandro made the trek across town to St. Joseph’s Prep to see D’Andre Swift

David Bauder |  Associated Press New York — The pandemic-era Super Bowl between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs reached the big game’s smallest television audience since 2006. An estimated 92 million people tuned in across the country to watch the Bucs’ 31-9 victory, the Nielsen company said Tuesday. Add in a record number

Bernie Wilson |  Associated Press Marty Schottenheimer, who won 200 regular-season games with four NFL teams thanks to his “Martyball” brand of smash-mouth football but regularly fell short in the playoffs, has died. He was 77. Schottenheimer died Monday night in Charlotte, North Carolina, his family said through former Kansas City Chiefs publicist Bob Moore. He

Justin Rogers | The Detroit News Welcome to the offseason. The Super Bowl is in the books and we’re about seven months away from the NFL’s next regular-season game. That means focus quickly will shift to roster building, namely free agency and the draft. Due to the pandemic, this year’s draft figures to be as tricky to navigate

Justin Rogers | The Detroit News Calvin Johnson is a Hall of Famer. The former Detroit Lions star becomes just the seventh wide receiver to be enshrined his first year on the ballot, joining Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Steve Largent, Paul Warfield, Lance Alworth and Raymond Berry. Johnson, fighting back tears, was informed of his selection by David

Justin Rogers | The Detroit News In the five years since he’s retired, up until the announcement he’d been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday evening, former wide receiver Calvin Johnson has had a strained relationship with his former team, the Detroit Lions. But, for the first time in a while, there

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News Calvin Johnson is a Hall of Famer. The former Detroit Lions star becomes just the seventh wide receiver to be enshrined his first year on the ballot, joining Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Steve Largent, Paul Warfield, Lance Alworth and Raymond Berry.  Johnson, fighting back tears, was informed of his selection Saturday

Nolan Bianchi   | The Detroit News There was uncertainty as to whether Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson was going to make the Hall-of-Fame in his first turn on the ballot. Now that the speculation is over, allow us to say: How? The second-overall pick in 2007, Johnson survived the Detroit Lions experience for nine

John Niyo   | The Detroit News We’re talking about the Super Bowl here, so we might as well start with the food. And begin with what the two coaches are bringing to the party as the Chiefs and Buccaneers meet Sunday in Super Bowl LV in Tampa. On one side, you’ve got Andy Reid, Kansas

Barry Wilner |  Associated Press More than two decades ago, Charles Woodson beat out Peyton Manning for a prestigious college award. Something called the Heisman Trophy. On Saturday, they likely will share an even more impressive football honor: entry into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Manning and Woodson, two of the most dominant players at

Tony Paul   | The Detroit News Those Super Bowl squares are fun and all, but they’re so last year. An estimated $6 billion was gambled in the United States on last year’s Super Bowl, according to the American Gaming Association, but barely 5% of that was wagered legally. This year, 25 states, plus Washington D.C., have

Justin Rogers | The Detroit News Dan Campbell has added another experienced coaching veteran to his staff, bringing aboard former defensive coordinator Todd Wash to coach the Detroit Lions defensive line. Wash spent the past eight seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars, originally coaching the team’s defensive line prior to being promoted to coordinator in 2016. In

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News The Pittsburgh Steelers’ identity under Bill Cowher was as defined as the former coach’s jawline. Those teams, which he led to 10 postseason appearances, eight division titles and a Super Bowl championship, oozed toughness and physicality.  So when Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell started talking about biting off kneecaps

Justin Rogers   | The Detroit News The trade won’t be finalized until the middle of March, the start of the NFL’s new league year, but everyone knows Matthew Stafford is heading to Los Angeles and Jared Goff is coming back from the Rams to take Stafford’s place as the quarterback of the Detroit Lions. But

Justin Rogers | The Detroit News If Jared Goff is going to be successful in Detroit, NFL Network analyst and Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner believes the Lions are going to need to commit to building a system around Goff similar to the one the Rams had that translated to his best seasons, in 2017

Nolan Bianchi   | The Detroit News After signing a free-agent deal in 2010, former Detroit Lions receiver Nate Burleson walked through the locker room in Allen Park for the first time. A new teammate approached him. “Nate? I thought it was a rumor you signed here,” he said. Burleson was perplexed but relayed the info that the

John Niyo   | The Detroit News They like him, and to borrow a line from Sally Field — not to be confused with Justin Fields, obviously — they can’t deny the fact that they like him now. But how much do the Lions really like Jared Goff? Is it just enough to get from here