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What I’m about to tell you has nothing to do with the Detroit Lions’ chances of making the playoffs this season. It has little to do with wins and losses. It doesn’t even have much to do with them being considered a good team. So when I tell you the Lions face a must-win game

Aidan Hutchinson has been hard-wired to hammer ball carriers since he was little, so it’s hard to blame him for what happened on his first play of his first NFL regular-season game. When Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts took a shotgun snap, turned to his left and stuck the football in running back Miles Sanders’

I get it. You want a win. Preferably another, followed by a few more. That’s the point, right? To win? And if the Detroit Lions don’t win Sunday against the Washington Commanders, falling to 0-2 — again! — and then that beginning leads to 0-6 — as it easily could — momentum and curses and

There are a few ways to look at Detroit’s offensive performance in its 38-35 Week 1 loss to the Eagles. Option A: The Lions scored five touchdown drives of more than 70 yards, the only team in the NFL to do so. It’s early proof of concept that the offense does have the balance and

PHILADELPHIA − There might have been a game back when DeVonta Smith was in high school or playing youth league football where he did not have at least one catch in a game. But it sure didn’t happen in four seasons at Alabama, where Smith had at least one catch in every game. Interestingly enough,

D’Andre Swift had more rushing yards than all but two players in the NFL last week, but the Detroit Lions still think Swift has more to offer on offense. “He certainly had a hot start for us we’d like to continue to build on,” Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson said Thursday. “We have a vision

Injury problems keep making their way down the Detroit Lions offensive line. The Lions practiced without 3/5ths of their starting line for the second straight day Thursday, as Taylor Decker returned at left tackle but Jonah Jackson joined fellow interior linemen Frank Ragnow and Halapoulivaati Vaitai on the shelf. Ragnow missed practice for a second

The best year of Jared Goff’s NFL tenure came in 2018. The 2016 No. 1 overall pick set career marks in his third season in yards passing (4,688), touchdowns (32), average yards per attempt (8.4) and passer rating (101.1) as his Los Angeles Rams marched to the Super Bowl. That same season, Rams running back

Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Producer: Andrew Hammond • Editor: Cary Junior • Guest: Michael Cohen, Free Press Michigan beat writer • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: Carlos and Shawn are joined by Free Press Michigan beat writer Michael Cohen as the guys dissect the Michigan football quarterback situation. Did Jim Harbaugh do right by

Hank Fraley was not happy. The Detroit Lions had just scored their first touchdown in Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Lions’ offensive line coach was glaring a hole through starting right guard Logan Stenberg as he walked off the field. Stenberg committed two false start penalties on the possession, nearly derailing a

D’Andre Swift’s career-best rushing performance came on a day he played through a sprained ankle. Swift told the Free Press on Wednesday he rolled his ankle in the second quarter of the Detroit Lions’ season opening 38-35 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Swift stayed in the game and finished with 15 carries for 144 yards,

The Detroit Lions lost a game to the Philadelphia Eagles over the weekend. Now, the Eagles are losing an offensive lineman to the Lions. The Lions signed offensive guard Kayode Awosika off the Eagles’ practice squad Wednesday to help their depleted offensive line. The Lions were without three-fifths of their starting line at practice Wednesday.

The Detroit Lions have their first long-term injury loss of the 2022 season. Halapoulivaati Vaitai had back surgery in Dallas on Tuesday, Lions coach Dan Campbell said, and his status for the rest of the year is now up in the air. “That’s (something) to monitor,” Campbell said Wednesday. “He certainly will be out for

Three days after the best rushing performance of his career, D’Andre Swift did not participate in Detroit Lions practice Wednesday. Swift ran for a career-high 144 yards on 15 carries in the Lions’ season-opening loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Swift finished the game and told reporters after he felt “good” physically, but he appeared to

Aidan Hutchinson’s NFL debut was a dud, but the Detroit Lions have no reason to be down on their rookie defensive end. “Honestly, I’m not even worried about him,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said Monday. “He’s going to adjust from this. He’s prideful, he’s a pro. I already know that about him as a rookie,

Sometimes, Week 1 of the NFL season is incredibly meaningful. Sometimes, it’s not. Take last season, for instance. The Green Bay Packers got absolutely throttled in their 2021 opener, losing 38-3 to a New Orleans Saints team playing its first game without Drew Brees. The Saints were considered a middling team entering the season —

There are two ways to walk into work Monday after a tough loss on a Sunday — bad or worse. For the Detroit Lions, it was the former according to coach Dan Campbell, who’d just finished watching the game film before addressing reporters. “There was a lot of encouraging things on tape,” he said. “I’ll

The Washington Commanders and Detroit Lions play on Sunday in an NFL Week 2 game. The Lions are a 2.5-point favorite, according to Tipico Sportsbook. Detroit is -130 on the moneyline in the game, which will be played at Ford Field in Detroit. The Commanders are +110. The over/under for the game is set at 49.5 points.

The Detroit Lions have found all kinds of ways to lose over the years. Sometimes, far too many times to count, they have lost at the end of games. We have seen everything from heartbreaks to the absurd — like Justin Tucker bouncing a 66-yarder off the crossbar as time expires last season. But on

Coach-speak and clichés are constant during news conferences, but every now and then the truth slips out and when it does, it’s easy to recognize. The truth of the matter Monday, as the Detroit Lions licked their wounds from a 38-35 defeat Sunday vs. the Philadelphia Eagles was this: They genuinely believe this offense has