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With the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings on a bye, the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions are the only NFC North teams taking the field in Week 13. The Packers aim to increase their win streak to three games with a victory over the defending champs, while the Lions look to right the ship

Pride runs deep with Dan Campbell, who has the Detroit Lions in first place in the NFC North. He’ll head “home” to square off with Dennis Allen, who has the New Orleans Saints tied for first place in the NFC South and has been connected to Campbell since serving as a graduate assistant at Texas

We know, we know. The college football season isn’t over and Jim Harbaugh isn’t going to potentially leave Michigan and coach a pro team until it is.  But logic like that hasn’t stopped oddsmakers from speculating whether he will return to the NFL sidelines next season — especially when teams are relieving HCs of their

The Lions started the three-week window on rookie quarterback Hendon Hooker on Wednesday, allowing him to practice with the team. Detroit can take all of the 21 days to make a decision on Hooker, the former Tennessee Vol who tore the anterior cruciate ligment in his left knee the week before Thanksgiving, 2022. Although he

The Falcons put distance between themselves and the Saints while Panthers fans inch closer to petitioning owner David Tepper to sell the team. These are our predictions for Week 13 in the NFC South. Detroit Lions (8-3) at New Orleans Saints (5-6) | 1 p.m. ET Running backs David Montgomery and rookie Jahmyr Gibbs should

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

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