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Lions QB Matthew Stafford might have had the best of both worlds.
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Lions QB Matthew Stafford might have had the best of both worlds.
There are two topics du jour around here these days. One, of course, is whether this early success is for real or if it is just another in a long line of Lions' teases.
Message sent, message received. Head coach Jim Schwartz benched starting RT Gosder Cherilus last week in favor of Corey Hilliard.
The Lions have had good starts before. They were 2-0 in 2004 and 2007. By the end of the following seasons, both head coaches, Steve Mariucci and Rod Marinelli, had lost their jobs.
Matthew Stafford has thrown seven touchdown passes in two games. The last Lions quarterback to throw seven touchdowns in the first two games of a season was Milt Plum in 1962.
The Lions are the talk of the NFL this week. We see their game film broken down on NFL highlight shows.
Coach Jim Schwartz hates to use the word swagger, but he couldn't come up with a better way to describe the feeling his team has coming into Week 3.
Mike Valenti of the Valenti & Foster show held a live chat with Detroit sports fans at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Here's a recap:
A year ago, Detroit coach Jim Schwartz would show up for his Monday news conferences, and more often than not, he'd face questions about the previous day's defeat.
The Lions had to toss most of the pre-game preparation out the window in the first quarter Sunday.
The Lions did their level best to downplay any bad blood between them and the Chiefs, even though it was GM Scott Pioli who accused the Lions of tampering before the 2010 season.
A year ago, Detroit coach Jim Schwartz would show up for his Monday news conferences, and more often than not, he'd face questions about the previous day's defeat.
In the past five years you always heard the same words about Detroit. People allowed the words "depressed", "downtrodden" and "suffering."
Keiland Williams got his first live action as a Lion and he showed some hard interior running.
This wasn't a preseason game. It wasn't a meaningless late-season game with nothing on the line.
