The press box table was too high and the chair too low. He’d stand up and strain to see the field, sit back during the timeouts, then stand and strain again. Jerry Green had come all this way after all these years and he was going to watch Matthew Stafford in the Super Bowl the
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With the Detroit Lions in Arizona for the annual owners meetings, it’s yet another opportunity to see if the team will give any clues as to what they will do in next month’s NFL Draft. After an aggressive free agency period, the Lions’ strategy for the draft—in which they have the sixth and 18th picks—is…
Dan Campbell and Sean Payton have a close and lengthy friendship, so it’s not surprising the Broncos head coach took an opportunity to praise his former assistant. After Sean Payton stepped down as the New Orleans Saints head coach a little over a year ago, Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell talked poignantly about the relationship
Is DJ Chark’s replacement already on the Lions roster? by Curt Steele It’s been an exciting offseason for Lions fans with several key acquisitions to an already-talented roster, led by defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson. Things are about to get even sweeter thanks to DraftKings Sportsbook’s incredible Michigan promo: Bet $5, Win $150 on any moneyline win!
PHOENIX – A high football IQ is almost always one of the first things former coaches bring up when talking about new Detroit Lions cornerback Cam Sutton, but Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Sutton’s value goes beyond his intellect on the field. “I always hesitate because the first thing I think about is his
Phoenix, Ariz. — Dan Campbell was drafted and developed by Bill Parcells, but no one has had a greater influence on the Detroit Lions coach than Sean Payton. Payton was with the New York Giants when the team drafted Campbell in 1999. And when Payton followed Parcells to Dallas in 2003, Campbell came along with
PHOENIX — Sean Payton has always been a Dan Campbell fan, and that won’t change now that the two are rival coaches in the NFL. Payton, who was quarterbacks coach of the New York Giants when the team drafted Campbell in 1999 and hired Campbell as an assistant 17 years later with the New Orleans
As the Detroit Lions survey the landscape of draft prospects, they’ve been mentioned as a team with interest in an older, under the radar signal caller. The Detroit Lions have acknowledged the need to consider what their quarterback future after Jared Goff might look like, and the idea they’ll take a quarterback in April’s draft
If you’re an avid gamer, you may have noticed over the past two years that the Madden NFL Football video game franchise has left the head of the Detroit Lions looking a little strange. The depiction of coach Dan Campbell has been… unbecoming, to say the least. In fact, in our weekly Madden simulations, we…
We have made our selections for the general managers of our 2023 NFL Community Mock Draft. Thank you to everyone who entered and signed up. I had to make some tough calls, as we had a ridiculous amount of people who signed up. Unfortunately, I couldn’t give a spot to every active community member, but…
The 2023 Detroit Lions are slowly taking shape, and the image coming into focus is an exciting one. Growing expectations for the Lions also means more pressure on those in charge. Dan Campbell will surely look to take the next step in his head coaching career—a Coach of the Year nomination perhaps?—but his right-hand men…
The Detroit Lions now have to actually consider how to replace DJ Chark, and Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton has resurfaced as a potential option. It felt inevitable back to before free agency started, but the Detroit Lions indeed lost wide receiver DJ Chark, to the Carolina Panthers. Merely on the concept of having to
The Detroit Lions have notably added pieces in free agency, but one sneaky departure has been tabbed as their biggest loss. In free agency this year, it has been mostly about adding for the Detroit Lions. Some may want to lament the loss of wide receiver DJ Chark, but that’s a very small fly in
Before free agency, Detroit Lions fans were fairly split on whether the team should consider drafting a quarterback early in this year’s draft. Some believed any time you can get an upgrade at quarterback, you should highly consider it—and with Jared Goff’s contract up in a couple of years, now could be an ideal time…