Mike Payton
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Lions beat writer for @AtoZSportsNFL | Moon Man| Lions insider @wzzm13| Former ULA Peacock | PFWA | World’s biggest Fresh Prince fan |Formerly @PrideOfDetroit
Detroit, MI
Joined January 2012
It’s here. The Dan Campbell Applebees commercial is out and it is hilarious.
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Jared Goff is the first quarterback in NFL history to have a 100% completion percentage in a game.
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I’ve been against the idea of recreating the Lions logo, but I’d be all in on this.
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I hate to be that guy, but the Chiefs have doing stuff like this all night and they aren’t getting called for anything.
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Z’Darius Smith is in the house and he has the Brian Branch shirt on
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For the weird moon people. The moon was a waxing crescent the last time the Lions won a playoff game. The moon on Sunday will be a waxing crescent.
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For those of you that believe in the whole Super Bowl logo color scheme thing
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Goff says the people in Detroit are special. Said hearing the chants of his name made him feel pretty good. Said he’s never experienced anything like that before.
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This was before the game started. Listen to that building man. Also, what a an awesome jacket choice by Christen here.
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St. Brown just signed an extension and isn’t a free agent until 2028.
When Amon-Ra St. Brown hits free agency, I have a hunch where he’s going.
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You might not want to hear it right now, but that Super Bowl window is still wide open for the Lions. This wasn't the end.
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I'm just gonna say this. The Lions are one fixable problem away from being the very best team in the NFL. Like completely unstoppable.
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Saw someone call the Lions the fakest 11-1 team ever yesterday. I don’t know how anyone could watch this Chiefs team and think the Lions are the bad 11-1 team.
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I don't really need my MCL, jaw, ACL, leg, or forearm. I'll donate these things to the Lions.
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Lions fans didn't set the decibel record last night, but what they did do was insane. They essentially held decibels of 115-120 for the entire night and never let up. There's got to be some hoarseness in Detroit today . Drink some tea with honey and we'll see you next week.
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Are we gonna talk about how this lady lifted Gibbs into the stands?.
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Za'Darius Smith in 9 games with the Browns:.27 pressures.20 hurries.2 hits.5 sacks. Smith in 4 games with the Lions:.20 pressures.14 hurries.2 hits .4 sacks.
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If this happened to Stafford they’d flag the Lions for unsportsmanlike conduct and the Packers would get the ball at the spot of the foul.
Just Myles Garrett ripping off Mason Rudolph’s helmet to hit him with it
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Skipper making this signal is their “smoking gun.” He’s clearly signaling for a substitution and Allen isn’t even looking at him. Every second the NFL keeps going forward with this, the more credibility they lose and the more people start to wonder if this was done on purpose.
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Goff: . 14-2 record (QB wins aren't a real stat).4,428 passing yards.36 touchdowns .116.1 passer rating.
The MVP will be an AFC QB. Debate that one elsewhere. My take - there's been no better QB in the NFC this season than this man. 14-2 record.4,135 passing yards.35 TDs .106.4 Passer Rating .@Vikings @gmfb
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This is by far the best recap of the Lions And Cardinals game that I’ll ever see.
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Lions' chances at the one seed if the Eagles would have won: 42%. Lions' chances at the one seed after the Eagles' loss: 79%.
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Hard to dislike Baker when he does stuff like this.
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DJ Chark, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, Josh Reynolds and TJ Hockenson. Have fun Jared.
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Campbell gets a tiny bit choked up talking about how proud he is of Jameson Williams. Says "I love that kid.".
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Donald Trump and Equanimeous St. Brown are just choosing the worst times to try to dog Detroit.
Trump in Detroit: The whole country will be like Detroit if Kamala Harris is your president
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It was as this point that things really started to go wrong for the Bears
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Jared Goff went to Jared and got all the offensive linemen watches. These are obviously not your average Casio watch. These things are like $10k a piece,
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You want the Super Bowl back? You want Wrestlemania? You want other big things? This is how you get it. Detroit is killin it right now.
Photo from one of our security cameras. 150k fans on hand here in Detroit. 2 hours to go
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Tom Brady says the Lions are the best team he’s seen this season.
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IMO Lions fans really struggle with the idea that this is an evolving thing. Every loss is the end for them. Along with that is the idea that this is the final season or something. It has to be this year or nothing. This is a process and it's working. Maybe I'm wrong.
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You’re damn right.
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How far the Lions are from NFL history . Gibbs: 114 yards .Montgomery: 368 yards . If these guys can get this in the next six games, the Lions will be the first running back duo since 2009 to have 1,000 yards each. Only 5 duos have done this in NFL history.
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Texas A&M reached out to inquire on Dan Campbell and were told that he is not leaving the Lions.
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Absolutely stoked the Lions are playing a team they haven’t played already this year.
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Campbell says he believes that Ford Field will be louder than Arrowhead next week.
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Andrew Luck was sacked 174 times from 2012 to 2018. Matthew Stafford was sacked 265 times in that span. How the hell is Stafford still alive right now?.
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I’ll just say it, there is no way that Ford Field booed Stafford’s kids. I don’t know why she would think that. Anytime I heard boo’s last night it was because Stafford was on the field or they were booing officials. Ok, I’m done talking about it.
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The Bucs had 216 total yards and went 2-10 on third down in this game. If you're blaming Aaron Glenn, you are an insane person and' as the kids say these days, you are a casual.
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And this is why Ben Johnson hasn’t been super fast to leave. Mayo got one year to turn the worst team in the league into a playoff team. There is no patience in this league.
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For what it’s worth, my wife is 100% sure that Jake Bates recovered the onside kick at the end of the game and that the Bills player took it away from him and that was not nice.
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Jason and Travis Kelce weigh in on the whole Ben Johnson interview distraction thing
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Goff really went out there and completed 81.5% of his passes in a playoff game.
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I don’t blame Goff for the loss. I’m sorry I just don’t. I put this one squarely on coaching. Going empty backfield on Goff’s fumble is the call that changed the whole game. Lions went from possibly being up 14-3 and in control to behind and desperate. It changed the playbook.
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I'll tell you for sure what this season wasn't. It wasn't a failure. The baseline we all had coming in was win the divsion and win a playoff game. They came within a score of going to the Super Bowl. Take your failure arguments and go argue with a wall.
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The amount of people who think Goff took a knee and was down on the big fourth down conversion is just insane to me. How can this many people not know a simple football rule?.
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Goff says he didn’t know the game was over after the first down. Found out when they sent in personnel for victory formation.
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Terrion Arnold is a Lion and everyone should be crying tears of joy.
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Goff had a 27 inch vertical at the 2016 NFL combine. That was the fifth worst that year.
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Things this loss doesn't mean.1. The season is over.2. The Lions aren't going to the playoffs.3. Hendon Hooker should start.4. Aaron Glenn should get fired.
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Lost in all of this is that the Lions committed exactly one penalty for 5 yards today.
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Look at this. He drives his knee into St. Brown and then holds it there
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"let's run the one where we purposely look like a bunch of idiots falling down and then we score" . -Ben Johnson.
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Sewell graded out at 81.2 vs the Rams in October. That included him stopping Donald on multiple snaps. Donald did not record a sack vs the Lions.
If you think the Bengals should have taken Sewell you're an idiot. He wasn't stopping Donald, et al
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Get you someone that looks at you the way Matthew Stafford looks at Calvin Johnson
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How good of a season was Aidan Hutchinson having? He didn't play last week and he still leads the league in pressures.
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I got some moon stats for the mooniacs . The Lions are playing the Cardinals on the road during a wanning gibbous moon for the first time since 1973. The Lions won 20-16. The Lions are 5-0 when playing the Cardinals on the road in this moon phase.
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Lions legend Calvin Johnson spoke at Kamala Harris’ rally in Detroit Tuesday night and gave a pretty full throated endorsement.
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Stop mocking quarterbacks to the Lions in the first round.
.@Lions QB @JaredGoff16 finished the 2022 @NFL season ranked:. - 1st in TD/INT ratio (4.14).- 2nd in 25+ yard passes (35).- 5th in passing 1st downs (227).- t-5th in passing TDs (29).- 6th in passing yards (4,438).- 7th in passer rating (99.3). #OnePride
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The Lions are suddenly a team that has no pressing contracts to get done for in house talent. There’s really no upcoming free agent that this team needs to make sure they keep. They’re about to hit the offseason with a ton of money and a ton of draft assets. This could get fun.
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Get ready to be apologized to tomorrow.
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The Lions have announced that former Lions' receiver Golden Tate will join their preseason broadcast team.
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And then they proceeded to lose to one of the worst teams in NBA history.
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If I’m Dan Campbell, I have this playing in the locker room on a loop all week. They should have won this game
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The Lions were probably going to make a move at the deadline already, but they absolutely need to now.
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I’d like to remind you that what the Lions did here was completely normal and has been done for years. The NFL knows that.
In trying to confuse the Cowboys as to who was and wasn't eligible on fateful two-point try, the Lions successfully confused referee Brad Allen. From the NFL's perspective, that's the risk the Lions assumed by engaging in deception and gamesmanship.
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Dan Campbell has gotten the Lions to first place in the NFC North faster than any Lions coach in franchise history.
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Sione Vaki is currently the most voted for special teams player in the NFC. I couldn’t be prouder of all of you.
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I’ll tell you who didn’t have a bad game, Jared Goff. That guy is good.
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Lions fans are going to be eager to pin this one on Aaron Glenn, but I think you need to be looking at Ben Johnson with this one.
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Don’t be afraid of waxing gibbous. It’s not Thanksgiving. The Lions are 3-1 with waxing gibbous moons this season. I still cannot believe that I have somehow become the moon man.
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Man, how you can not love this guy’s attitude? Swagger all day.
C.J. Gardner-Johnson on the playoff atmosphere, what players should expect and why he's in Detroit: . "(Lions) brought me here to win a Super Bowl. They ain't bring me here to make no f*ckin' playoffs."
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Matt Patricia just cost the Lions a chance at clinching the playoffs. It’s like he never left.
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We know that Jamo is fast, but this was the first time we realized he could also do stuff like this. 2024 could be a big year for him.
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The Lions are incapable of catching a break from another team.
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Rushing yards allowed through first four games: . 2023 Lions: 243.1985 Bears: 416.1970 Steelers: 394.2000 Ravens: 186.2014 Lions: :323.2002 Bucs: 310.2015 Broncos: 335.2013 Seahawks: 436.1986 Giants: 277.1969 Vikings: 333.
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Jared Goff is off to the best statistical start a Lions quarterback has had since Stafford’s 2011 season. BTW, Goff’s start is almost identical to that. Stafford 2011:.100-161 for 1,217 yards, 11 TD’s and 3 INT’s. Goff 2022:.92-151 for 1,126 yards, 11 TD’s and 3 INT’s.
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