Detroit Lions fans are finding themselves need a reason to watch this year’s Super Bowl. Not only is it a massive disappointment the Lions aren’t in the NFL championship game, but pretty much every NFL fan is tired of both the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. Including this one, the Eagles and Chiefs have…
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It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and we’ve entered a new era of Detroit Lions football that makes this day much tougher in recent years. The franchise is now steady enough to compete for championships, but their Super Bowl drought continues nonetheless. I’m not sure if I believe all the voters, but as of Saturday night, 57…
Per several reports, former Detroit Lions player and coach Dick Jauron passed away on Saturday morning at the age of 74. Jauron was reportedly battling cancer in his final days. Jauron was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1973 and played five season as a safety with the Lions. He made the Pro Bowl as…
All week, Detroit Lions fans have been debating whether it’d be smart to go after Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, who is disgruntled and requested a trade. Earlier in the week, we ran a poll asking Lions fans if they would trade a pair of first-round picks to land Garrett. As of this publishing, more…
It’s been a few weeks since we fired up Madden 25, and I’m feeling some withdrawals. Not because it’s a good video game. It’s decidedly not. But our weekly Madden simulations during the Detroit Lions are a beautifully chaotic way to spend my Saturday mornings, and our last one—our Lions vs. Commanders Divisional Round preview—was…
We’re back for the third installment in our 2025 Detroit Lions Mock Draft Roundup series of articles. So far, most mock drafts have been heavily populated with defensive players, and this installment is no different. This week, we examined 28 mock drafts, and they paired the Lions with 14 different players, including 13 defenders and…
It’s officially Super Bowl weekend, and I get the sense there isn’t much excitement in the metro Detroit area. With a disappointing finish to the Detroit Lions season and an uninspiring matchup in the championship game, it seems like Detroiters are far more interested in the burgeoning seasons of the Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red…
Superfan Megan Stefanski has been named not just the Detroit Lions Fan of the Year, but the entire NFL Fan of the Year. Megan’s love for the boys in Honolulu blue was inspired by her father, Donnie “Yooperman” Stefanski. She’s spent over a decade driving nearly 700 miles from the Upper Peninsula down to Ford…
C.J. Gardner-Johnson has never been afraid to share what’s on his mind, and that was very much the case this week when he was asked to reflect on his time with the Detroit Lions last season. Gardner-Johnson, who now plays for the Super Bowl-bound Philadelphia Eagles, called his time with the Lions “hell,” and claims…
Our 2025 Detroit Lions free agency preview has arrived at the special teams side of things. After missing the entire 2024 season due to a torn hamstring, kicker Michael Badgley sat on the IR and watched incoming rookie Jake Bates come in and take the job from him. Badgley was the early favorite to win…
During Thursday night’s NFL Honors award show, NFL Network reporter Steve Wyche managed to capture a photo of both Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff and defensive end Aidan Hutchinson surrounding Browns pass rusher Myles Garrett in a conversation. If you’re the kind of person who loves to speculate, you could probably be convinced that the…
The annual NFL Honors show took place Thursday night in New Orleans, and I believe the awards shook out the way people thought they would. At least for the most part. In a brief respite of football-related pain for the state of Illinois, former Detroit Lions’ offensive coordinator Ben Johnson took home Assistant Coach of…
According to a report from Adam Schefter, the Detroit Lions have hired former NFL quarterback Bruce Gradkowski as an offensive coaching assistant. Gradkowski enjoyed 11 years in the NFL, bouncing around several franchises since entering the league as a sixth-round pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2006. Over his career, he started 20 games,…
Our 2025 Detroit Lions free agency preview series has reached one of the team’s biggest cult favorites. Almost overnight, depth offensive tackle Dan Skipper became a Detroit sports legend for being on the wrong end of a terrible officiating snafu. He’s become synonymous both locally and league-wide with the term “reporting as eligible,” and he’s…
In just a few days, the 59th Super Bowl will take place, and for the 59th consecutive time, it will not feature the Detroit Lions. This year, it felt like the Lions may finally break the streak, as they spent a good chunk of the year as Super Bowl favorites. They finished with a franchise-best…
Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press is down at the Super Bowl in New Orleans gathering some good Detroit Lions content this week. His conversation with former Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff is worth watching to hear about his experience after Atlanta had to deal with several coaches leaving following their Super Bowl run.…
Our 2025 Detroit Lions free agent series continues. We’re breaking down each and every single decision the team must make with their pending free agent class ahead of this offseason including what their expectations were coming into the 2024 season, how they performed, and ultimately their chances of returning to Detroit for the next season.
As we all prepare to learn about how the Detroit Lions offense will change under several new coaches, which includes new offensive coordinator John Morton, Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown revealed on his podcast this week that he has a long, shared history with another new coach. Former Stanford head coach—and now Lions pass game…
Many Detroit Lions fans understandably have their focus on Myles Garrett and his trade request, but there’s another potential trade on the horizon than could involve Detroit. Earlier this week, Los Angeles Rams veteran receiver Cooper Kupp posted on social media that the Rams have informed him they intend to trade him this offseason.
The Philadelphia Eagles are trying to prevent a three-peat by the Kansas City Chiefs, something absolutely unheard of given the parity of the NFL. We got the worst possible matchup out of all the teams that made it in the playoffs, but hey, there is clearly a lesser evil in Super Bowl 59.