Allen Park — The Detroit Lions have two weeks to decide whether offensive tackle Taylor Decker will be able to play this season, and heading into Wednesday’s practice, coach Dan Campbell acknowledged he’s not sure which way it’s going to go. Decker suffered a finger injury in the week of practice leading into the season opener and
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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
Justin Rogers, James Hawkins, John Niyo and Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News offer their predictions for Week 7 of the NFL season. All picks made against the spread. Detroit +13.5 at L.A. Rams Rogers: L.A. Rams Hawkins: L.A. Rams (best bet) Niyo: L.A. Rams Wojnowski: L.A. Rams Denver +6 at Cleveland Rogers: Cleveland Hawkins:
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
Detroit — It’s tempting, sure. It’s tempting for Lions fans to pine for the days of ol’ No. 9 slinging the ball deep, firing it sidearm, leading the Lions to 9-7 and the brink of playoff success but never getting there. Don’t do it. Don’t look back. Go ahead and look away if you must on
As you might expect with a winless team a month and a half into the season, the Detroit Lions have many issues. But if they could correct just one — their inability to put points on the board early in games — they might have a chance to secure their first victory. Following the team’s 34-11 loss to the
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
I was at a Detroit Lions game this preseason when I ran into a longtime NFL scout I know who asked what I thought of the team Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell had assembled. They were young and thin, I told him, and I wasn’t buying what the Lions were doing on offense. Their receiving
I like Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell — a lot. He is as genuine and refreshing as an A&W root-beer float at sunset, as fiery as a ticked off rattlesnake, as open and honest as a full blast of truth serum and as caring and compassionate as a Hospice worker — a trait uniquely useful
Dennis Franks, who played football at Michigan in the early 1970s and then four years in the NFL, including the 1979 season with the Detroit Lions, has died. Franks, 68, suddenly passed away last Saturday, according to a social media post by Market America Worldwide for which he was executive vice president. He is survived
Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff will not be the only players facing their old teams when the Detroit Lions visit the Los Angeles Rams this week. For Lions defensive lineman Michael Brockers, Sunday’s trip to SoFi Stadium is a homecoming, too. JEFF SEIDEL: Don’t be fooled: Stafford didn’t escape Lions, he was part of the problem
Allen Park — In the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s ugly loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell’s ire made it difficult for him to organize this thoughts. When asked about the team’s continued offensive struggles, the coach said he had “about a million ideas just floating around up here right now as to
Allen Park — If you run into your ex when out on the town, you hope, at the very least, you can project you’re doing just fine without them. But Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff won’t have that luxury when he returns to Los Angeles this week to play the Rams, the team that unceremoniously dumped
It was bound to happen, right? Someone’s knees were gonna be weak with vomit on their sweater due to Mom’s Spaghetti. Well, swap out the sweater for a Bengals jersey and mission accomplished. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH GOFF: Benching Jared Goff after his worst game isn’t the answer for inept Detroit Lions THE GRADE
Pat Studstill, a wide receiver and two-time Pro Bowler for the Detroit Lions in the 1960s who also was a decorated punter and later went into a career in acting, has died. Studstill died Saturday at his Los Angeles home, according to a Detroit News obituary. He was 83. Studstill played for the Lions from
It was bound to happen, right? Someone’s knees were gonna be weak with vomit on their sweater due to Mom’s Spaghetti. Well, swap out the sweater for a Bengals jersey and mission accomplished. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH GOFF: Benching Jared Goff after his worst game isn’t the answer for inept Detroit Lions THE GRADE
Another Detroit Lions‘ Sunday has come and gone and Monday, along with a new NFL week has begun. Coach Dan Campbell will answer questions in his Monday news conference, starting around 2:15 p.m. However, this isn’t just another week. It’s the week the Lions visit the 5-1 Los Angeles Rams on Sunday (4:05 p.m., Fox).
Ladies and gentlemen, ready or not, welcome to Matthew Stafford Week. It might not be as entertaining as Shark Week on Animal Planet, but it’s going to be close. And probably just as gory. The Detroit Lions will go to Los Angeles on Sunday to play against the Rams — OK, all we really care
Allen Park — Here are four observations after having a night to ponder the Detroit Lions’ 34-11 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. First down ESPN analyst Mike Clay posted a statistic today that is somehow both stunning and not surprising at all, at least once you allow your brain process it: Through six games, the Lions have not taken a single