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Bears Bears RB D’Andre Swift was fined $22,511 for unnecessary roughness (use of the helmet) in Week 15. Lions After losing to the Bills in Week 14, Lions DC Aaron Glenn doesn’t understand the panic surrounding their team. “We’re 12-2 and the sky’s falling,” Glenn said, via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “We’re

Ben Johnson and the Detroit Lions are constantly putting out new play designs that you can’t believe you’re seeing. From snapping the ball through Goff’s legs to David Montgomery to having Penei Sewell play quarterback, there’s always something new.  On  Sunday the Lions ran a play called the “stumblebum” in which both Jared Goff and

Last week we ran a little experiment where we tried to find what Brad Holmes’ biggest mistake as the Lions GM was. We made our choice, but a lot of Lions fans responded with something else. They feel drafting Brodric Martin was Holmes’ biggest mistake. You can understand why they would feel that way. Martin

The Chicago Bears 34-17 loss to the Detroit Lions marks the team’s ninth straight defeat. If that doesn’t make you start to think about the upcoming  offseason, I don’t know what will. In the 14 seasons since George McCaskey took over as Chairman of the Board, the Bears have endured 19 different losing streaks of

Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson won plaudits for his fake stumble play that he deployed against the Chicago Bears on Sunday. Originally, the design of the play was even crazier. The Lions actually staged a Jared Goff fumble to fake out the Bears on a 21-yard touchdown pass during Sunday’s victory. Goff intentionally stumbled

The Detroit Lions made some franchise history on Sunday with their 34-17 win over the Bears. They’ve now won 13 games for the first time ever. Just huge stuff for this team. We’ve got 0 winners and 0 losers in this game, here they are: Winners Jared Goff Before last week’s game against the Bills,

In the Detroit Lions‘ 34-17 win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday, the Lions ran a fun play that purposely looked like it was a mistake. The play had Goff stumble in the play action fake and had Jahmyr Gibbs fall down on purpose too. The play fooled the Bears and it left Sam LaPorta

Given the Bears’ abundance of salary cap space, skill position talent and the presence of talented rookie-contract QB Caleb Williams, it is easy to see why they believe their HC post is the most desirable among those that are expected to be available in 2025. Bill Belichick, before he made the surprising decision to join

The Chicago Bears are absolutely reeling after a thorough beat-down in Week 15. The team looks lost and borderline checked out. Some players are even thinking about off-season vacations. There really is nothing left for this team to play for besides pride. It remains to be seen if this team has any of that left.

Brandon Joseph was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence early Saturday morning. The second-year safety is no longer with the Lions as a result. Joseph was pulled over for speeding around 1:47 a.m. on Saturday and Dearborn Heights police noted he was taken into custody for “a few hours.” Director Paul Vanderplow stated

The NFL just loves to fine Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch. He’s been fined five times already this season and now you can add a sixth time to the list.  Branch has been fined $10,128 for taunting in the Lions Week 15 game against the Bills. This one seems pretty weak, but the NFL gets

It’s worth noting that Melifonwu remains questionable for Week 16. Additionally, the Lions waived S Brandon Joseph and WR Maurice Alexander. Detroit signed OLB Mitchell Agude, WR Tom Kennedy and DL Chris Smith from the practice squad to the active roster. Finally, the Lions used standard practice squad elevations on RB Jermar Jefferson and S

The Detroit Lions have a big game on Sunday in Chicago. It’s a cold-weather game and a game for the Lions to prove they’re not dead and the sky has not fallen. The team has made nine roster moves ahead of the game. Here’s what they did: Activated Ifeatu Melifonwu Here’s the big one off

Teddy Bridgewater opens up about his dislocated knee It wasn’t just a normal knee injury for Bridgewater, his knee was dislocated and among the injuries to it was a torn ACL. It’s been a mystery what happened to Bridgewater with a lot of different theories having been discussed since the injury occurred. Bridgewater opened up

Ben Johnson. Mike Vrabel. Ben Vrabel. Mike Johnson. It seems like every week, there is a new frontrunner for the Chicago Bears head coaching vacancy. Last week, Mike Vrabel was a name consistently being brought up after it was made known that Team President Kevin Warren and General Manager Ryan Poles were looking for ‘leaders of men.’ This week,

Over the past three seasons, Lions head coach Dan Campbell has consistently been in the discussion and received votes for NFL Coach of the Year honors.  This year, no one is more deserving. The Detroit Lions Are Making the Case for Dan Campbell as COTY The NFL Coach Of The Year (COTY) is awarded to the

After being feared to have been lost for the season this week, David Montgomery might actually be able to make a return for the Detroit Lions. On Friday, Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network shared a positive update on Montgomery’s status from Dan Campbell. “Optimistic with a couple of doctors that he saw, the last

On Thursday night we got to see a rule that we haven’t seen in a long time. We got to see the Chargers go for a fair catch free kick field goal. A fair catch free kick is when a player makes a fair catch and the team opts to kick a field goal instead

Ok, this was kind of hard, but I wanted to challenge myself with this one. On Thursday ESPN’s Bill Barnwell ranked the worst decision of all 32 NFL teams in the last five years. The Lions came in pretty low on the list and the mistake they chose had nothing to do with Brad Holmes. 

Bears The Bears dropped to 4-10 following Week 15’s loss to the Vikings. Chicago QB Caleb Williams said that losing “really affects me” but understands he’s still developing as a rookie.  “Losing is one of those things that really affects me,” Williams said, via Courtney Cronin of ESPN. “It’s tough. But I do have the understanding