NFL teams like to break their seasons into quarters. It’s a trick the bad teams use to keep hope alive when most everyone has hit eject on their seasons, and one the good teams employ to not get too wide-eyed about what lies ahead. For the Detroit Lions, the way the calendar falls this year,
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Allen Park — Here are four observations after having a night to ponder the Detroit Lions’ 29-0 loss to the New England Patriots. First down It’s about this point in the season, four to five games in, where opponents start to get a clearer understanding of the nuances of a new scheme. So after the
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
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
It’s almost the end of Week 5 in the 2022 NFL season and the most competitive division in football is … the NFC East? After years of uneven play, three teams – the New York Giants, Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles – all have records of 4-1 or better. Philadelphia, in fact, is the lone
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Five games into this season, the Detroit Lions are irrelevant. A punchline to an old, familiar joke. Before the freakin’ Halloween decorations are even up. Again. “It’s just about as bad as it gets,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said Sunday after the New England Patriots punked the Lions, 29-0. “I believe we
Foxborough, Mass. – So here’s a dirty little secret about the Patriot Way. More often than not, Bill Belichick’s genius can be distilled to this simple coaching point: Limit your mistakes, and let your opponents beat themselves. And here at Gillette Stadium, on a crispy, sunny October afternoon, the NFL schedule makers couldn’t have picked
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Amon-Ra St. Brown slipped a black brace over his right ankle, then white socks over both his feet as he got dressed in the Detroit Lions locker room after Sunday’s 29-0 loss to the New England Patriots. The second-year wide receiver caught four passes for 18 yards in his return from a
Foxborough, Mass. – So here’s a dirty little secret about the Patriot Way. More often than not, Bill Belichick’s genius can be distilled to this simple coaching point: Limit your mistakes, and let your opponents beat themselves. And here at Gillette Stadium, on a crispy, sunny October afternoon, the NFL schedule makers couldn’t have picked
Foxborough, Mass. — After suffering three close losses by a combined 10 points the first month of the season, the Detroit Lions were thoroughly outclassed in every way by the New England Patriots, who sent the Lions both bumbling and limping into the team’s bye after delivering a 29-0 thrashing at Gillette Stadium on Sunday.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When DeShon Elliott saw an ambulance drive onto the field at Gillette Stadium, a shot of fear ran through his body. Detroit Lions safety Saivion Smith was knocked unconscious in the first quarter of Sunday’s 29-0 loss to the New England Patriots when he collided with Patriots tight end Hunter Henry. Smith
Foxborough, Mass. — Justin Rogers grades the Detroit Lions’ performance in their 29-0 loss to the New England Patriots. Quarterbacks For the third time this season, Jared Goff was responsible for the opponent scoring a touchdown. With the Patriots holding a six-point lead after the defense came up with a pair of red-zone stops, Goff
Foxborough, Mass. — Two plays into his first start as a member of the Detroit Lions, defensive back Saivion Smith had to be taken off the field at Gillette stadium by ambulance, strapped to a backboard. Fortunately, the player had movement in all his extremities after testing at a local hospital and the team hoped
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It’s all gone. Any sense of progress for the Detroit Lions has disappeared. All the smiles and laughs that came from “Hard Knocks” have turned into disgust and disappointment. And any belief that things will change seem based in nothing but foolish hope. Yes, we have seen this before. For more than
Free Press columnist Carlos Monarrez answers three questions following the Detroit Lions’ 29-0 loss to the New England Patriots: How bad was this loss to a third-string quarterback? Yep, I get it. The Lions lost, 29-0, to Bailey Zappe, a third-stringer making his first career start whose name sounds like he’s either a high-powered cleaning
Well, that was a game. The Detroit Lions were shutout for the first time since Nov. 2020 as they were dominated in all facets by Bill Belichick’s Patriots, who were starting their third-string QB, 29-0. The Lions went for it on fourth down six times. They did not convert a single one — the first
Foxborough, Mass. — After suffering three close losses by a combined 10 points the first month of the season, the Detroit Lions were thoroughly outclassed in every way by the New England Patriots, who sent the Lions both bumbling and limping into the team’s bye after delivering a 29-0 thrashing at Gillette Stadium on Sunday.
Detroit Lions defensive back Saivion Smith suffered a neck injury in the first quarter of Sunday’s game against the New England Patriots and was taken to a local hospital by ambulance. Smith, making his first start with the Lions, was injured just under five minutes into the game, when he tried to jam Patriots tight
Foxborough, Mass. — Two plays into his first start as a member of the Detroit Lions, defensive back Saivion Smith had to be taken off the field at Gillette stadium by ambulance, strapped to a backboard. Smith was transported to a local hospital. The Lions reported Smith has movement in his extremities, but is still
FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS – OCTOBER 09: Saivion Smith #29 of the New England Patriots is taken away in an ambulance after suffering an injury during the first quarter against the Detroit Lions at Gillette Stadium on October 09, 2022 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Photo by Nick Grace/Getty Images) Look: Chicago Bears spelled David Montgomery’s name wrong on