Lions Team Grades: Detroit Unable To Top Dallas, Falls Hard In 42-21 Loss
Despite a strong start, the Detroit Lions could not maintain their momentum and eventually lost big to the Dallas Cowboys.
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Despite a strong start, the Detroit Lions could not maintain their momentum and eventually lost big to the Dallas Cowboys.
Matthew Stafford moved on quickly from another loss to his hometown team.
Who knew a punter could hit that hard?
Johnson, who retired at the end of last season, has the Lions records for career receptions (731), receiving yards (11,619) and receiving touchdowns (83).
The Lions quarterback focuses on the good memories as he prepares for another homecoming Monday night, knowing his team can clinch a postseason berth with a victory.
So now the question is how the Cowboys keep their edge with two games that won't change their spot in the playoff bracket — starting Monday night at home against Detroit — along with a bye before their postseason opener.
The Detroit Lions have released defensive end Corey Lemonier a week after claiming him off waivers.
Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions aren't quite in win-or-go-home mode like the last time they visited his hometown Dallas Cowboys for a wild-card playoff two years ago.
The Lions have yet to be featured in primetime this season, but they could show up on televisions across America each of the next two weeks.
The Detroit Lions announced today that they have signed WR Andrew Turzilli to the team's practice squad.
Detroit will have a tall order in front of them, as they head to Dallas to play the Cowboys in a high-profile Monday Night Football showdown shortly before the playoffs.
The Detroit Lions need a win and a Green Bay loss to secure a rare postseason appearance.
Fans tend to view the Lions push to the playoff as a two-game season.
Maybe it was a premonition or even a harbinger of doom for Lions fans that the Jackson Citizen Patriot had Monday morning when their newspaper hit the news stand.
The Lions could not find any rhythm against a stacked Giants defense as Detroit fell hard against New York by a score of 17-6
The Detroit Lions announced today that they were awarded DE Corey Lemonier via waivers from the Cleveland Browns and waived CB Adairius Barnes.
Lions can clinch NFC North with win and Green Bay loss or tie; or a tie, a Green Bay loss and a Minnesota loss or tie.
Detroit long snapper Don Muhlbach was with the Lions back in 2008, when they became the first — and so far, the only — NFL team to go 0-16.
Giants, Cowboys Up Next For NFC North-Leading Lions
Detroit faces a brutal test as they head into New York and look to beat a Giants team who has only lost one game at home.
If the season ended now, the Lions would be the No. 2 seed in the NFC, but road games against the Giants next weekend and the Cowboys on Dec. 26 could change all that.
It wasn't pretty, and it surely wasn't expected, but the Detroit Lions just barely managed to walk away with a 20-17 win against the struggling Chicago Bears.
Theo Riddick is inactive for the Detroit Lions against the Chicago Bears.
Pettigrew was drafted in the first round by the Lions in 2009 and had some productive seasons as a pass catcher, but he tore his left anterior cruciate ligament late last year and hasn't played at all this season.
Chicago Bears quarterback Matt Barkley likened his return to playing football regularly with riding a bicycle.
