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Five Detroit Lions have been named to the 2024 Pro Bowl games, the league announced on Wednesday evening. Let’s get right into it and break it down player by player. TE Sam LaPorta — Obviously, this is LaPorta’s first-ever Pro Bowl selection, considering he’s a rookie. LaPorta is currently sixth among NFL tight ends with…

For a long time now, Brandon Thorn has been one of my favorite follows on Twitter. If you are unfamiliar with his work, Thorn is an offensive and defensive line analyst who has really put in both the time and effort to be one of the more respected members of the community.

The Detroit Lions are back at home in Week 18, taking on the Minnesota Vikings in a battle of NFC North rivals. While the Lions are dealing with some typical late-season bumps and bruises, overall they are getting healthier and are expected to return at least two players from injured reserve this week—with a third…

The week the Detroit Lions cut defensive linemen Isaiah Buggs and Bruce Irvin. Both players have had a significant impact on the team, albeit for widely different spans of time. Buggs was one of the key players in the Lions’ 2022 defensive turnaround, particularly when it came to their run defense. Irvin was added late…

Over the past week and into this week, the Detroit Lions have had to do a lot of roster maneuvering. In order to add the likes of C.J. Gardner-Johnson, Alim McNeill, Jason Cabinda, Michael Badgley, and Hendon Hooker to the 53-man roster, several players have been cut, re-signed, and/or added to the practice squad. Just…

The Detroit Lions’ controversial loss to the Dallas Cowboys has sparked a lot of opinions throughout the league, and in this week’s national power rankings, you can see a variety of responses. Some national analysts liked what they saw from Detroit and moved them up in their rankings, while others were less sympathetic and moved…

Every time we try to move on from the ending of the Detroit Lions game against the Dallas Cowboys, the NFL draws us back in with a mind-numbing statement or move. The latest comes from an internal video memo that the NFL reportedly sent to teams about the process of ineligible receivers reporting as eligible.…

On Tuesday, news broke that the Detroit Lions are parting ways with veteran defensive tackle Isaiah Buggs. While not completely unexpected considering how the Lions used Buggs sparingly in 2023, it is still a pretty shocking development when you consider just how high of a standing he had with the team going into the year—having…

I promise you we’re getting towards to the end of coverage for the finish from the Detroit Lions’ heartbreaking loss to the Dallas Cowboys. But I want to take you back to that moment one more time. Because, for a good 30 seconds, every Detroit Lions fan felt pure ecstasy. When Taylor Decker caught that…

The regular season is at its conclusion and the Detroit Lions are your NFC North division champions. This game isn’t a must-win to make the playoffs or win the divisional title for Detroit. The Lions have their playoff appearance locked in, so the stress of years past isn’t around this time. The only thing the…

The Detroit Lions’ defense continues to improve down the stretch and defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn deserves a lot of credit for how he has been mixing and matching his available personnel. In their Week 17 game against the Cowboys, the Lions leaned on a more athletic front in order to stop the run and the…

The Detroit Lions are taking on the Minnesota Vikings in Week 18, closing out the 2023-24 regular season at home in Ford Field. The folks over at DraftKings have set the opening betting line at Lions -4, with the moneyline settled at Lions +160 and Vikings -192, with the over/under line set at 44 points.

With 2023 in the books, let us reflect on the 2023 that was for the Detroit Lions. The year kicked off in style for Detroit, walloping the Chicago Bears on New Year’s Day before crushing the playoff dreams of the Green Bay Packers in the regular season finale. While the Lions fell short of the…

Week 17 is officially in the books. Just one more week left for teams to clinch their spot in the postseason. But for the Detroit Lions—and really much of the NFC—a ton has already been decided. The San Francisco 49ers have clinched the top seed in the conference. Five teams have already secured their spot…

The NFL finally released the schedule for Week 18, setting up a couple of primetime games with big playoff stakes. For the Detroit Lions, it’s a standard 1 p.m. ET game against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, January 7. Both the Lions and Vikings have something to play for, but both require a lot of…

The Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings are fighting for their playoff lives on a New Year’s Eve edition of “Sunday Night Football.” The division rivals each sit at 7-8 and on the outside looking in at a Wild Card berth. A loss tonight would be season-ending, so expect a hard-fought and intense battle. The…

The Detroit Lions’ loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday night makes their path to anything but the third overall seed unlikely. According to PFF’s model, the Lions now have a 94.3 percent chance of staying in that slot, with their odds at a second seed only at 5.6% and the remaining fraction of a…

The ending of the Detroit Lions game against the Dallas Cowboys will be talked about for days and days. To quickly summarize, the Lions believed they had scored the go-ahead two-point conversion with 24 seconds left, but officials ruled that left tackle Taylor Decker—who caught the pass—was an ineligible receiver.

With a playoff ticket already booked, this game between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys had lesser stakes than in weeks prior, but that did not help alleviate the sting of a tough loss. An otherwise competitive game was completely overshadowed by a historically awful officiating moment. Instead of talking about a playoff-caliber matchup, the…

After clinching the NFC North division last week with a win over the Minnesota Vikings, the Detroit Lions came up short against the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday night. It was a back-and-forth game where both offenses were struggling early on until the second half when things started to work for both teams.