By Jerry Green | Special to The Detroit News Detroit — The coach was trudging up the slope in the corridor outside the Lions’ locker room past a cluster of critical, curious sports journalists. Suddenly he stopped. “What does it take for a coach to get fired around here?” he whispered into the right ear of
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Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) With no fans allowed at Ford Field
Tyler J. Davis | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption What the most stolen cars have in common See which kinds of cars thieves targeted the most across America. A 31-year-old man is facing felony charges after he was caught working on a stolen car that belonged to former Detroit Lions star Calvin Johnson. Darnell Eddie Smith,
Tony Paul | The Detroit News A Detroit man has been charged with operating a chop shop where former Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson’s stolen car recently ended up. Darnell Smith, 31, was arrested Tuesday and arraigned in 36th District Court on Thursday, charged with operating a chop shop and receiving and concealing stolen
Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) Trey Flowers should be in Alabama right
Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) All is quiet on the Kenny Golladay
The Detroit News | The Detroit News Justin Rogers, Rod Beard, John Niyo and Bob Wojnowski of The Detroit News offer their predictions against the spread for Week 5 of the 2020 NFL season. Tampa Bay -5.5 at Chicago Rogers: Tampa Bay Beard: Tampa Bay Niyo: Tampa Bay Wojnowski: Tampa Bay Carolina +3.5 at Atlanta
Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) In the aftermath of last week’s loss
Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) In the aftermath of last week’s loss
Justin Rogers | The Detroit News In recent years, the best NFL offenses have converted third downs at a clip between 45-49%. Currently, with offensive production up across the league, six teams have been successful a shade better than 50% of the time through four games, led by the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs at 53.9%. On Sunday, the
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Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) Last week, the Detroit Lions cracked the
Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) Last week, the Detroit Lions cracked the
Carlos Monarrez | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) Detroit Lions safety Duron Harmon had strong
Justin Rogers | The Detroit News The dictionary defines consistency as marked by harmony, regularity, or steady continuity; free from variation or contradiction. If you rolled your eyes at that journalistic cliché, it was necessary to convey what it’s like listening to the Detroit Lions players and coach Matt Patricia daily attempting to identify what’s wrong with a
Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Show Caption Hide Caption Detroit Lions are 1-3 at the bye. Is there any reason for optimism? Detroit Lions don’t seem intent on making a midseason coaching change, so what improvements, if any, can save the 2020 season? (Filmed Oct. 5, 2020) Matt Patricia took a thinly veiled shot
Teresa M. Walker and Barry Wilner | Associated Press NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is warning the league’s 32 teams of penalties including potential forfeits of games for violations of COVID-19 protocols that force changes in the schedule. In a memo sent to the teams Monday after a conference call involving NFL and club executives, Goodell
Kirkland Crawford | Detroit Free Press When Detroit Lions general manager Bob Quinn fired coach Jim Caldwell after the 2017 season, Quinn said that 9-7 isn’t good enough. After Sunday’s 35-29 loss to the Saints, head coach Matt Patricia, the man brought in to replace Caldwell, fell to 10-25-1 in Detroit. And among the head-scratching
Dave Birkett | Detroit Free Press Martha Firestone Ford had the best of intentions in mind when she marched into the Detroit Lions’ Allen Park practice facility one November morning five years ago and fired Martin Mayhew and Tom Lewand. But with all due respect to the Lions’ then-90-year-old owner, Ford didn’t know what she