Allen Park — Monday was a big day for Frank Ragnow. For the first time since undergoing season-ending surgery on his foot, the Detroit Lions center ran sprints on a football field. It might seem like cruel timing, the day after the team’s season came to an end, but Ragnow was never expecting to come
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On the surface, it seemed like the perfect fit. In reality, it was anything but. The Detroit Lions and offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn mutually agreed to part ways Monday, the day after the Lions finished their season with a 37-30 win over the Green Bay Packers. “It just wasn’t a fit,” Lions coach Dan Campbell
Allen Park — A hurricane of change washed over the NFC North on Monday, with potentially the biggest upheaval yet to come, but the Detroit Lions enter the offseason on a relatively calm note, with uncharacteristic optimistim accompanying an all-too-familiar last-place finish. The Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings were the big newsmakers Monday, with those franchises
The Detroit Lions‘ first 17-game season is in the books, and the fellas in Honolulu Blue and silver finished with a 3-13-1 record. While that’s a step back, record-wise, from 2020’s 5-11, this year certainly seems like more of a success. That could be because the Lions picked up three wins and a tie in
2021-22 NFL playoffs schedule, game times, game channels and results: AFC wild card round Saturday No. 6 Las Vegas at No. 3 Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m., NBC No. 5 New England at No. 4 Buffalo, 8:15 p.m., CBS Sunday No. 7 Pittsburgh at No. 2 Kansas City, 8:15 p.m., NBC NFC wild card round Sunday No. 7
Dan Campbell has been on the job as Detroit Lions coach less than a year, and already he is the second-longest tenured coach in the NFC North. Both the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings fired their head coach and general manager Monday, a day after finishing disappointing seasons outside of the playoffs. The Bears fired head
The season was done. Workers were cleaning out Ford Field late Sunday afternoon but the score was left on the scoreboard: Lions 37, Green Bay 30. Up in the press box, more than a dozen televisions were tuned to the same game. Matthew Stafford was on, leading the Rams to a back-and-forth game against the
Well, it’s finally over. The long, hard season for the Detroit Lions came to a merciful conclusion Sunday with a 37-30 win at Ford Field after they pulled away from the Green Bay Packers’ junior varsity squad in the second half. And everyone left happy. Amon-Ra St. Brown broke Roy Williams’ franchise rookie receiving yards
It would be easy to get excited about the Detroit Lions beating the mighty Packers on Sunday, and maybe some of you feel that way. You must be new to Detroit. The rest of us have seen this movie too many times to be fooled by the ending. It’s like Humphrey Bogart at the finish
Amon-Ra St. Brown knew exactly how many yards he needed to break Roy Williams’ franchise record for receiving yards by a rookie, and when he got them on his first catch of Sunday’s game, he calmly tossed the ball to a ball boy and went back to work. “I want to keep that ball,” St. Brown said. “That’s
Amon-Ra St. Brown lined up as the slot receiver in a bunch formation just to the right of the line of scrimmage, with Kalif Raymond in the backfield, and immediately heard squawking from the Green Bay Packers sideline. “I’m lined up and all I hear from the sideline is, ‘Fourteen’s getting the ball coming across. Fourteen’s
Detroit — Flea-flickers and fake punts, fourth-down gambles and timely scrambles. In a free-for-all finale, the Lions displayed more aggressiveness and cleverness, an entertaining flourish. If there’s one thing we’ve learned in Dan Campbell’s first season as head coach, the Lions won’t play it safe or bland. And if there’s another thing we learned, the
Detroit — The Detroit Lions emptied the playbook, scoring long touchdowns on a pair of trick plays. But the team needed a late scoring drive and subsequent defensive stop to put away the Green Bay Packers in the season finale Sunday, 37-30, at Ford Field. With the victory, the Lions (3-13-1) secured the No. 2
Detroit — It wasn’t a great season, but the lasting memory the Detroit Lions will leave fans with heading into the offseason was a team willing to pull out all the stops to get one final win. That attitude was embodied by two, complicated trick plays that were flawlessly executed, resulting in a pair of
Detroit — Tracy Walker had it rough. A leader of Detroit’s secondary, the fourth-year safety was stuck with a nickname that no defensive back would find appealing: “Butters” Walker. He dropped that nickname on Sunday when he picked off Jordan Love with under 30 seconds left in the Lions’ 37-30 season-finale win over the Green
Detroit — Justin Rogers grades the Detroit Lions’ performance in their 37-30 victory over the Green Bay Packers. Quarterback Playing behind a banged-up offensive line, Jared Goff returned to the lineup after a two-game absence and capped his strong finish to the season, completing 21 of his 30 throws for 238 yards and two scores.
The chant erupted in Ford Field. “Let’s go, Lions!” the fans chanted deep into the fourth quarter. The Detroit Lions were down, 30-27, in the fourth quarter against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, and the fans were into it, wanting the win. They weren’t screaming: “No! Let’s go for the loss and get the
Detroit News contributor Nolan Bianchi offers his observations after the first half of the Lions game against the Packers at Ford Field. St. Brown doing it all for Lions offense Amon-Ra St. Brown has been a revelation. Every week, you expect defenses to give him more attention and limit his production, but that just hasn’t happened
Detroit — It will be a sour end to an otherwise spectacular rookie season for Detroit Lions offensive tackle Penei Sewell. After contracting COVID early in the week, he wasn’t able to shake lingering symptoms from the virus and has been made inactive for Sunday’s finale against the Green Bay Packers. It will mark the first
The Detroit Lions have been a laughingstock of the NFL for a long time, and nothing about a two-win season will make that change. But dive a little deeper into what Dan Campbell has accomplished in his first year as head coach and it’s hard not to feel different about the latest version of the