Lions Report: Notes, Quotes

--DT Ndamukong Suh's brilliant rookie season earned him a nice pay bump, as well. Suh was due to make $405,000 in 2011, but he reached incentives last season that will earn him an additional $1 million.

--WR Calvin Johnson also earned a pay bump, but his won't come until 2012, the final year of his contract with the Lions. Johnson's base salary for 2011 will actually decrease by $1.5 million, but he will get that back when his salary jumps from $12.425 million to $14 million in 2012.

--WR Nate Burleson doesn't think the Lions will have any trouble luring free agents. "With players, the way we look at it when we're going to new teams is the city appeal, how we feel about the location, and then it's, 'What was it like when I played that team?'" Burleson said. "Certain teams you play against, you're like, 'Them guys were soft. I don't want to be part of that organization. I don't want to play for them.' Or, 'They were arguing on the sideline, I don't want to be part of that type of disruption.' I know there's some teams that we played, some guys were like, 'It'd be all right to go to war with those guys. They show up on game day. They show up to fight.' And that's what we do."

QUOTE TO NOTE
"Jim Schwartz reminds me a lot of Tom Landry in that a lot of coaches in this league can talk about offense, can talk about defense, but Jim is one of the guys that can talk about the salary cap and understand the salary cap. He can understand the value of an offensive guard to your team as far as the salary cap is concerned. He's a guy that knows the rules, he's a guy that -- you want to know how to center the ball, Schwartz can show you how to center the ball. The guy has got a great, varied ability to understand the complete spectrum of the National Football League." -- NFL analyst Gil Brandt, to the Detroit Free Press.

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