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The Detroit Lions are no longer in the pole position of the 2022 NFL draft. The suddenly plucky Lions have now won two of their past three games, including Sunday’s stunning 30-12 victory over the first-place Arizona Cardinals, which has bumped them up to a 2-11-1 record — sliding them into the No. 2 overall pick in next year’s draft (for now). And with three weeks remaining in the regular season, the Jacksonville Jaguars are now in the draft’s driver’s seat — again — thanks to their… Source link

The Detroit Lions hadn’t won a game in nearly a year (364 days to be exact). Dan Campbell, their rookie head coach, had never been victorious in Detroit. His quarterback, Jared Goff, also new to the team, was oh-fer as a Lion. Same for a bunch of teammates. Detroit is the worst team in the NFL, the butt of jokes and frustration. When the Lions blew a lead to Minnesota on Sunday afternoon, it looked like more of the same. They were staring down a humiliating, winless season until Goff… Source link

The Detroit Lions will not post the second winless season in modern franchise history. After tallying 10 losses and a tie in their first 11 games, the Lions joined the rest of the NFL in the win column on Sunday with a thrilling 29-27 upset of the Minnesota Vikings. The win marks the first for rookie head coach Dan Campbell and fends off the ignominy of becoming the first NFL franchise with two winless seasons since 1945. The 0-16 2008 Lions are one of five NFL teams to post winless records… Source link

CLEVELAND — Mama said there’d be days like this, even if she had no idea she would play a key role in another Detroit Lions loss. Lions left guard Jonah Jackson was hit with a costly unsportsmanlike conduct penalty at the end of the third quarter of Sunday’s 13-10 loss to the Cleveland Browns for a verbal comment he made about Browns defensive end Jadeveon Clowney’s mother. JEFF SEIDEL: Dan Campbell went conservative this time. But the result was the same: A loss The penalty came two series… Source link

For weeks, the deeply flawed crown jewels of the 2016 NFL draft’s quarterbacks class presented the league with a pressing question about resolving a massive error. As the Philadelphia Eagles pondered the future of Carson Wentz and the Los Angeles Rams considered swapping out Jared Goff, onlooking NFL teams were mulling an issue that overarched both franchises. Sure, you might find a trade partner willing to reboot the careers of Goff or Wentz, but what could convince a trade partner to eat… Source link

Dan Campbell, the former assistant head coach/tight ends coach with the New Orleans Saints, is the new head coach of the Detroit Lions, the team announced Wednesday morning. The new hire signed a six-year deal with the franchise. He’s replacing Matt Patricia, who was run out of town on a rail in late November after his 29th loss in less than three seasons. Campbell, 44, had been with the Saints for five years. His career began with the Miami Dolphins, where he started as an offensive… Source link

It was the second question of his introductory news conference Tuesday, and given the magnitude of the decision, it was somewhat surprising it was not the first. Brad Holmes made no promises about Matthew Stafford‘s future at quarterback, but the new Detroit Lions general manager sure sounded like a man who wants Stafford on his team in 2021. “Matthew, great player,” Holmes said. “And what you really appreciate is, I think the talent level is easy to see. But you really appreciate how his… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Bears keep playoff hopes alive with win over Vikings Mitchell Trubisky and the Bears aren’t done just yet. Chicago’s playoff hopes are surprisingly still alive after an impressive win today at Minnesota, a win in which Trubisky got off to a hot start but then struggled late, and the Bears just held it together enough to win 33-27. In an old-school NFC North offensive [more] Source link

The Detroit Lions are starting over. The team announced the firing of head coach Matt Patricia and general manager Bob Quinn on Saturday. The team made the decision two days after the Lions lost to the Houston Texans 41-25 on Thanksgiving. Following that loss, Patricia was asked whether he believed he would coach the team in Week 13. He avoided answering the question, stating he was focused on helping Lions players get better every day. Patricia was hired prior to the 2018 season. The Lions… Source link

The Guardian Steve Dalkowski: the life and mystery of baseball’s flame-throwing what-if Many believe the lefthander was the fastest pitcher to ever take the mound. But his career – and life – went off the rails before he could make an impactSteve Dalkowski, a career minor-leaguer who very well could have been the fastest (and wildest) pitcher in baseball history, died in April at the age of 80 from complications from Covid-19. And yet, partly because of one missing detail, his legend lives… Source link