The mentor protégé relationship is a big thing in the NFL. Coaching tree’s are vast and seem to be everlasting. The Bill Parcels coaching tree is gigantic. Sean Payton is a part of that coaching tree and by his extension, Dan Campbell is too. Campbell played for the Cowboys while Payton was the teams assistant
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Unsurprisingly, people watched the NFL in droves on Thanksgiving Day. The three contests that took place on Thursday averaged 34.1 million viewers, eclipsing the prior record from a year ago of 33.6 million viewers. Even for a league that has maintained its standing as the king of television, adding a half-million people per game is
The Detroit Lions are a good team and they have one of the NFL’s best offensive coordinators in Ben Johnson. Which means he won’t be around much longer because he will eventually take a head coaching job in the NFL. That’s how it goes, these days. The league is all about scoring points and developing
The Detroit Lions defensive line just hasn’t been getting the sack numbers that Lions fans were hoping for. The guy that’s been taking all the blame for this has been former 2nd overall pick Aidan Hutchinson. After a really nice rookie year and good start to this season, Hutchinson has gone quiet. This has of
The Detroit Lions defensive line just hasn’t been getting the sack numbers that Lions fans were hoping for. The guy that’s been taking all the blame for this has been former 2nd overall pick Aidan Hutchinson. After a really nice rookie year and good start to this season, Hutchinson has gone quiet. This has of
Week 12 was a tough one for the Detroit Lions. Not only did they lose to their NFC North rivals, the Green Bay Packers, in their annual Thanksgiving Day game, they saw several key players suffer injuries in the game. Defensive back Kerby Joseph was banged up in the game along with offensive lineman Jonah
Week 12 did not go the Detroit Lions way when it comes to the big stuff. The Lions were unable to win on Thanksgiving and then the Eagles overtime win over the Bills seemingly pushed the Lions out of contention for the number one seed. Anything can happen. but it’s going to be harder. On
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell revealed Monday that rookie quarterback Hendon Hooker could begin practicing as early as this week. Hooker, the third-round pick out of Tennessee, has been on the reserve/non-football injury list (NFI) since July and is recovering from a torn ACL he sustained during his senior season last November. “I think
The NFL world has one fairly unanimous name on its mind for the Carolina Panthers’ next head coach. The Panthers fired Frank Reich in his first season with the team on Monday after a 1-10 start with rookie quarterback Bryce Young. Reich tried a few moves this season to get the offense clicking. He took
Detroit Lions rookie QB Hendon Hooker could start practicing very soon, according to Head Coach Dan Campbell. Hooker has been out since tearing his ACL against South Carolina late last season for the Tennessee Volunteers. He was on his way to possibly winning the Heisman Trophy and being a 1st round draft pick before the
The wait for Detroit Lions rookie Hendon Hooker is just about over. He is expected to come off the NFI list and practice with the team for the first time in his career very soon. Possibly as early as this week. It was expected to happen soon and Lions head coach Dan Campbell was asked
The Carolina Panthers fired head Coach Frank Reich on Monday morning after the Panthers had a 1-10 start this season. There’s some intriguing questions here that directly relate to the Detroit Lions. The first one is obvious, will the Panthers try to get ben Johnson again? They took a shot at him this past offseason,
This past week has been filled with Detroit Lions Football, playing the Chicago Bears on Sunday and the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving just five days later. Both games are reminiscent of each other: the Lions have large point deficits to objectively worse teams. The only difference between their performance between the Bears and the Packers was the Lions’ ability to
The NFL levied a $43,709 fine on Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown this weekend for a block during his team’s Week 11 matchup against the Chicago Bears. St. Brown was fined for what was deemed an illegal block against Bears safety Jaquen Brisker in the first quarter of the Lions’ 31-26 win at
Detroit Lions standout wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown can’t be happy with his team’s 29-22 loss against the Green Bay Packers on Thanksgiving Day. To make matters worse, the one-time Pro Bowler got hit with a fine just two days later for a play that happened two games ago. Per NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, Amon-Ra
There’s no secret that the NFL has been crazy about their fines this season. Players are getting fined outrageous amounts for actions that just seem to match the punishment at all. Detroit Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown was the latest to get hit by this. St. Brown got fined $43,709 dollars for this below. He’s
Barry Sanders has no regrets about July 27, 1999 — the day he decided to suddenly retire from the NFL after 10 seasons with the Detroit Lions. As Sanders recently explained to Robert Griffin III on the “RG3 and The Ones” podcast, he probably would have chosen a different method in letting the Lions know
The Green Bay Packers beat the Detroit Lions on Thursday in convincing fashion, and they may have been partly fueled by a fake quote providing some bulletin board material. The quote, attributed to Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, made the rounds during the week prior to the game. The social media post claimed St.
ESPN is bringing out the big guns for College GameDay in Ann Arbor in Week 13, on hand for Ohio State at Michigan. On Friday, it was revealed Wolverines legend and Detroit Lions star Aidan Hutchinson was returning to town for the show, ready to serve as the Celebrity Guest Picker on Saturday. “Michigan great
The Detroit Lions didn’t have the greatest of days on Thursday. It was probably their worst day on offense in quite a while. The defense had some struggles early before they were able to get things under control after a rough start. Lets take a look at how Pro Football Focus graded the Lions in