Heartbroken after a Week 4 overtime loss to the Green Bay Packers, Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots return home to play host to coach Dan Campbell and the Detroit Lions. Without starting quarterback Mac Jones and possibly backup Brian Hoyer due to injuries, the Patriots may be forced to play third-string rookie Bailey Zappe in
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The Detroit Lions‘ current special teams coach has great affinity for one of his predecessors at the position. Lions special teams coordinator Dave Fipp turned a question about special teams ace Chris Board into a soliloquy on New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick at the start of his weekly media session Thursday. Belichick, an assistant
Aaron Glenn has been here before, as a young cornerback playing in the media capital of the world. Glenn was coming off his first Pro Bowl in 1998 when his New York Jets played an important late-season game against the same Seattle Seahawks organization that lit up Glenn’s Detroit Lions defense for 48 points and
DJ Chark said there is nothing structurally wrong with his surgically repaired left ankle, and the Detroit Lions wide receiver hopes to return to action Sunday after sitting out last week’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks. “It’s better,” Chark said in the locker room after practice Wednesday. “What’s today, Wednesday? Times 10 (better) than last
The Detroit Lions kicking game has cost the team valuable points and field position for two consecutive weeks, and possibly, wins. Last week was Dominik Eberle. The second-year kicker from Utah State was moved to the active roster once it was clear Austin Seibert (groin) couldn’t play. Special teams coordinator Dave Fipp said the team
The smoke goes off and the crowd screams as Josh Reynolds emerges out of the tunnel in the northwest corner of Ford Field. The Detroit Lions wide receiver lifts one leg up to a 90-degree angle, cocks his arms to the side at a 45 and yells out a scream. Or maybe, it’s a hiss.
Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Producer: Andrew Hammond • Editor: Cary Junior • Guest: Dave Birkett, Free Press Lions beat writer • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: This week, the fellas are joined by Free Press Lions beat writer Dave
Maybe he’s thinking too much. Maybe he’s being asked to do too much. Or maybe the game is still moving too fast and everything is just too complicated for a rookie with just a few games under his belt. Aidan Hutchinson isn’t the main reason why the Detroit Lions have won just one game. But
Dan Campbell said personnel changes were coming to his league-worst defense this week. One of those changes involves moving players around on the defensive line. Undrafted rookie defensive lineman Demetrius Taylor is in line to make his NFL debut Sunday when the Detroit Lions visit the New England Patriots. And after playing inside at defensive
The Detroit Lions tried doing things the “The Patriot Way” for 2½ years in the Bob Quinn-Matt Patricia era. Lions fans know all too well how that turned out. While it wasn’t emulated well in Detroit, Bill Belichick’s style has been widely successful in New England, resulting in six Super Bowl victories since 2001. One
The Detroit Lions are still dealing with a rash of injuries to their most important skill position players. The Lions practiced Wednesday without four of their top five receivers, No. 1 running back D’Andre Swift and tight end T.J. Hockenson, though Lions coach Dan Campbell said most everyone in that group is feeling “a little
Rookie defensive lineman Josh Paschal made his practice debut Wednesday, but the Detroit Lions are “still looking at a while” before they get Paschal’s draft classmate, wide receiver Jameson Williams, on the field. Lions coach Dan Campbell indicated Wednesday that Williams is several weeks from being cleared to practice, though Campbell said Williams is “really
Tell me if any of this sounds familiar. The Detroit Lions were 1-3. They couldn’t stop the run, couldn’t get to the quarterback, couldn’t force interceptions. They had a historically awful defense; didn’t have enough playmakers and weren’t getting much out of their draft picks. They ranked near the bottom in most defensive NFL categories,
Aaron Glenn has never waivered in the type of defensive coordinator he wants to be. “I think you guys have known me for the past year,” Glenn said last month. “I like to go after people, and that’s just who I am. And I don’t know if that’s changing anytime soon.” The Detroit Lions rank
The Detroit Lions have a new kicker, and it was not one of the four they worked out on Tuesday. The Lions signed veteran kicker Michael Badgley to the practice squad, one day after he was released by the Chicago Bears. NFL Network first reported the signing. The #Lions are signing kicker Michael Badgley to
We’re a quarter of the way through the NFL season, or thereabouts with the 17-game schedule, which means it’s a good time to take stock in what’s happening around the league. The Philadelphia Eagles have been the class of the NFL so far. They are the league’s only unbeaten team, their total margin of victory
Some people think I like to call for coaches’ firings. I don’t. Frankly, it’s a silly notion. For the life of me, I can’t imagine how anyone could take the slightest pleasure in calling for someone to lose their job and their means of providing for themselves and their family, even if they happen to
A day after they failed to get a single stop against one of the NFL’s lowest-scoring teams, Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said he is planning to “move some personnel around” on his league-worst defense. Campbell declined to identify what players will be moving where, but said that was one of the changes he and
The Detroit Lions and New England Patriots play on Sunday in a game on the NFL Week 5 schedule. Which team will get the victory? Check out these NFL Week 5 picks and predictions for the game, which can be seen at 10 a.m. MST on Fox. The Patriots are a 2.5-point favorite in the game. NFL Week 5 picks,
Reinforcements are on the way, but even that might not be enough to save the Detroit Lions’ struggling defense. Lions coach Dan Campbell said the team is hoping to get second-year cornerback Jerry Jacobs and rookie defensive lineman Josh Paschal back at practice this week, with a return to game action in the not-too-distant future.
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