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Amani Oruwariye was a surprise inactive for last week’s game against the New England Patriots, but the Detroit Lions are not counting their interception leader from last season out of their cornerback rotation yet. “Amani’s going to get a chance to compete,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said Monday. “I told him, he’s not out of
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The Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys play on Sunday in a game on the NFL Week 7 schedule. The Cowboys are a 6.5-point favorite, according to Tipico Sportsbook. The Cowboys are -300 on the moneyline in the game, which will be played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Lions are +245. The over/under for the game is set at
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Second-year Detroit Lions defensive tackle Levi Onwuzurike will miss the 2022 season after undergoing back surgery during last week’s bye. Lions coach Dan Campbell said Onwuzurike’s decision to have surgery was “a last resort” due to disc problems that have persisted throughout his career. A second-round pick out of Washington in 2021, Onwuzurike missed most
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While the Detroit Lions’ 1-4 start to the 2022 season has featured many classic hallmarks of the “Same Old Lions” trope — including (but not limited to) questionable coaching moves, crushing turnovers returned for scores and defenses with less stopping power than a Camaro with the brakelines cut — it has been a rarity in
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Roger Zatkoff ran a successful business into his 70s. He took vacations, sometimes traveling by himself to places like California and Florida, in his 80s. The former Detroit Lions linebacker and member of the team’s 1957 championship team lived a normal enough life that he was sure he did not have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the
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Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Producer: Andrew Hammond • Editor: Cary Junior • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: This week, Carlos and Shawn sift through what we think about the current status of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell, and
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The Detroit Lions aren’t just disappointing. They aren’t just frustrating. They aren’t even just embarrassingly predictable. They are a black hole, an infinite and greedy fissure that sucks all the goodwill and hope in the “this-time-it-could-actually-be-us- universe” and never, ever, returns it. That too much? Well, the heart can only handle so much. But then
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The Detroit Lions aren’t just disappointing. They aren’t just frustrating. They aren’t even just embarrassingly predictable. They are a black hole, an infinite and greedy fissure that sucks all the goodwill and hope in the “this-time-it-could-actually-be-us- universe” and never, ever, returns it. That too much? Well, the heart can only handle so much. But then
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FOXBORO — Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and his staff have many ways to motivate their players. When it came to finding the right motivation for facing the Detroit Lions, Patriots coaches last week used a similar tactic  to one they used during the 2014 season. Eight years ago, Patriots defensive coaches hung quotes by
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett breaks down the Detroit Lions‘ 29-0 loss to the New England Patriots, and looks at players and coaches who helped and hurt their stock Sunday at Gillette Stadium: Stock up S DeShon Elliott The Lions demoted Elliott from the starting lineup Sunday, but he played nearly
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It was a beautiful day in New England on Sunday. A crisp, cool breeze rustled through the leaves just starting to change colors in the bucolic countryside outside Gillette Stadium. But back in Detroit, the sky is supposedly falling for Detroit Lions fans, no matter what the forecast says. Because they lost
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