Will Burchfield
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Once upon a time, there were eight outdoor hockey rinks in Detroit. Now there's only one, and it's in the middle of Mexicantown. I played in its annual tournament (scoring zero goals in four games, sheesh) and found the people preserving a lost era.
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#Lions
RB David Montgomery said he was pumping gas this week when a woman approached him in tears and thanked him for the Lions’ playoff win. Montgomery hugged her, and thanked her for believing.
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How did Dan Campbell scout Vikings-Eagles on MNF?
"Normally, like any fan would. I fell over backwards in my chair drunk after the second half, I couldn’t even take notes anymore. Woke up, couldn’t read my notes. But I’m back in this morning, took some aspirin, we’re good."
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#Lions
QB Jared Goff: "I don’t want to say this arrogantly, but we expected to win the first game, we expected to win this game and now we get to go to a game we expected to be in against a really good team at their place and we’re going to come into it expecting to win."
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Here's Sean McVay on his experience at Ford Field: "It was an incredible atmosphere. The fans were booing my ass when I walked out and they were all fired up. And I loved it. It’s what’s great about NFL football, and this city is a great football city, so nothing but respect."
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Terrion Arnold said Brian Branch told him Ford Field is louder than Tuscaloosa. Arnold didn’t believe him. Then he took the field tonight.
“Way louder,” he said.
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A gutted Lions locker room. Red eyes and broken hearts. And a hardened one.
Amon-Ra: “Waking off the field, seeing them celebrate, that’s a feeling we’ll never forget. We’re not feeling that way next year.”
Anzalone: “It’s Super Bowl or bust.”
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So Detroit shattered attendance records at the NFL draft while Eminem kicked things off in Cadillac Square, Barry Sanders served Bud Lights at B-Dubs and Amon-Ra St. Brown dished out slices from a Little Caesars pizza truck. Different Round Here.
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Taylor Decker with tears in his eyes: “Frank is a fu**ing warrior, man.”
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#Lions
WR Jameson Williams: “The city is giving us a boost, how excited everybody is in the city. They making us feel like, sh*t, we done already won the Super Bowl just from winning one game for them. They take it to the max.”
Added: “I plan to be here for a long time.”
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Question came from Bernie Smilovitz, who recently and tragically lost his wife. Heartfelt gesture by Campbell:
Dan Campbell on the Ravens: "If I was dreaming about how to stop these guys, Lamar is the first one I'd see -- if I was coming out of a nightmare.”
“Believe me, he’s still dangerous. He’s very dangerous.”
It’s a different offense in Baltimore, but Lamar remains a demon.
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Playoff Jared Goff: 52-70, 564 yards, 3 TD, 0 INT, 111.85 rating. That’ll do.
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Amon-Ra St. Brown: "When I got here, you tell your friends you’re on the Lions and they’re like, 'Oh you guys are no good. You're not gonna do anything.' So we know what the perception is, but we have a chance to change things, not just for this year but for years to come."
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Penei Sewell: “I’ll enjoy this when the season ends, and I plan to be in Vegas for that.”
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Amon-Ra St. Brown, after 13 yards: "Whatever I have to do to help the team, whether it’s blocking, running a through route to get my other guy open, I’m happy we came out with the dub, regardless of how many catches I had, how many yards. To get a win in this league is tough."
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All-Pro Penei Sewell: “When I first got here, I knew that was the goal, just to get our foot in the door. But now that we’re in, it’s time to kick that bitch down.”
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Penei Sewell says there’s an ongoing debate in the
#Lions
locker room about which of Brad Holmes’ draft classes is best.
“Obviously ours,” said Alim McNeill.
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Of the more than 20,000 players in MLB history, Miguel Cabrera is now the only one with 3,000 hits, 500 homers and a god damn Triple Crown.
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Does bulletin board material matter to the
#Lions
and Jared Goff?
"Depends what it is. Whatta you got?"
Skip Bayless, after your game, tweeted --
"Nah, I don’t care about anything he says. You can stop now. Anything those guys say on daytime TV, you can skip over that."
Congrats, Lions. You have won the right to get blown out at San Francisco. But hey, great year.
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Tony Dungy on the Lions, on Football Night in America: “I grew up in Michigan and I’m going to say something I didn’t know if I was going to be able to say in my lifetime: the Lions are playoff contenders. I wouldn’t want to play them.”
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Will
#Lions
RB Jahmyr Gibbs get more touches Week 2!?
“Well, probably not,” said Dan Campbell. “Now that everybody’s asking, no. I had planned on doing it, but the more people ask, the more I think we oughta just pull back.
“We love Gibbs. Yes, he’s going to get more touches.”
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#Tigers
1B Spencer Torkelson on the Lions: “The last game they played was against my all-time favorite team the 49ers and I had a lot of family members not really happy with me because I was watching the game in a Goff jersey rooting for Detroit.”
@StoneyJansen
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Rex Ryan on Lions-Packers: “Aaron Rodgers, it ain’t about you. How bout that team that was 1-6 and came back and beat the Packers in Detroit, the same team that you refuse to give any credit to. Today, good luck, because you’re going to get everything they got."
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Baker Mayfield: "This is a great atmosphere. You can tell this city has had a lot of pent-up emotion and been waiting a long time for this. This place, they’ve earned that. Dan Campbell has done a hell of a job turning this thing around. You can tell, they play for each other."
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When Jamo hit the LCA goal horn: Wings 6-Penguins 3
When Ben Johnson hit the LCA goal horn: Wings 6-Blues 1
When Hutchinson hit the LCA goal horn: Wings 8-Caps 3
For a football final of 20-7.
"We can probably credit the Lions for a good 6-8 points this year." -- Derek Lalonde
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Jared Goff: "It’s so much greater than anything about me and the Rams or Matthew in Detroit."
"It's about our team. We’ve come a long way and it’s our opportunity now to go make a real run. It’d be selfish of me to make it about anything else," he said:
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David Montgomery: "It’s cold out there, a lot of people ain’t got homes, and I’m pumping gas in a nice car and we just won a game and she’s crying telling me thank you."
"The love here in Detroit is something special," said Penei Sewell:
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WR Amon-Ra St. Brown: "I know Stafford did a lot here for the fans and the organization, but it’s different times now. Jared’s here. We won the division for the first time in 30 years, so we’re doing things that haven’t been done in a while. But we gotta keep going."
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500 homers, 3,000 hits, .300 career average: Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Miguel Cabrera.
500 homers, 3,000 hits, 600 doubles: Hank Aaron, Albert Pujols, Miguel Cabrera.
500 homers, 3,000 hits and a Triple Crown: Miguel Cabrera.
Once-in-a-lifetime talent.
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pres Rod Wood says Dan Campbell — who wore the black alternates as a player — asked him back in ‘21 “when we could bring a certain jersey back.”
“And I said, ‘When you win the division.’”
Calls the black jerseys “a reward.”
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New Red Wing Vladimir Tarasenko: "Detroit is one of the most famous if not the most famous team in the world when you talk about hockey history. Growing up in Russia, a lot of people followed Detroit because of the Russian 5. On my first PlayStation I played with Detroit too."
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Penei Sewell, a Detroiter year-round: "The way this city has treated me and my family, it’s something I never even imagined. ... It was an easy transition to call this place home. I did grow up watching the Lions and Megatron. It’s a place that could be my forever home."
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With his work tonight, Jahmyr Gibbs now leads the NFL in yards per carry (5.8). This is the game-breaking ability the
#Lions
invested in.
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With a starting O-line of Decker-Jackson-Ragnow-Glasgow-Sewell, the
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are 5-0 and average an NFL-leading:
38.4 points
421.2 yards
179.4 rushing yards
5.5 yards per carry
And Jared Goff has a passer rating of 121.73
That's the O-line they could take into the playoffs.
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When the
#Lions
traded down to draft Jahmyr Gibbs, they also acquired the pick that allowed them to draft Sam LaPorta. Both have touchdowns in the biggest game of the season. You can argue value. Can't argue production.
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CJGJ, on Lions’ future:
“I’ve been on winning football teams before. I’m a six-year vet. I’ve seen a lot of ball. This team has what it takes to be dominant for the next couple years, with the players they have, the guys we got in the front office that’s helping us build it.”
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The
#Lions
are now set up to get Stafford and the Rams in Detroit, and a grudge match with the Cowboys in Dallas. And what better way to vanquish some demons and banish their past.
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Amon-Ra St. Brown is no longer a steal, or a star. He’s a superstar. Period, full stop. 100 yards in four straight games, and six of his last seven. He plucked that TD pass off the turf like it was nothing.
“He’s got everything.”
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It’s official: they’re bumpin it at Ford Field 🗣🗣🗣
The Lions have found their victory song. Was bumping in the locker room today. I advise you give it a listen:
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New
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CB Carlton Davis III: "You about to get a lockdown corner. You about to have one side of the field unavailable. That’s what I do. I'm here to take the No. 1 receiver on any team, I'm here to deny the ball and take the ball away."
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You don’t see Jared Goff get emotional often, but this question got to him. The support of his teammates clearly struck a chord:
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John Salley -- via
@RichEisenShow
-- on what he's learned from The Last Dance: “I learned that we didn’t realize we're still on the mind of Michael Jordan. Imagine being the greatest player ever in the NBA and he goes to sleep thinking about you. I really appreciated that.”
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TE Sam LaPorta was so jacked up after the game last week he couldn't fall asleep. And his ears were still ringing: "It’s my pleasure to sit back on the bench when the defense is out there and just look at the decibel level go up and up and up."
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🗣️🗣️🗣️
Baker Mayfield: “You can tell this city has had a lot of pent-up emotion and been waiting a long time for this."
Sean McVay: “Incredible atmosphere. It’s what’s great about NFL football, and this city is a great football city.”
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Why have utility boxes when you can have retired numbers? Popping up downtown ahead of the draft. Nice touch, Detroit.
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Taylor Decker: "I can’t say enough good things about our fanbase. All we’ve ever wanted to do is put a product on the field that they can be proud of, and I think in a lot of ways we did that this season ... Man, it would have been great to get this one for them."
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Amon-Ra St. Brown "can’t imagine what it’s like to be drafted now by the Detroit Lions. When I got drafted, it was a lot different. Now there’s guys who want to get drafted to Detroit. Once you hear Detroit calling you, I’m sure that call is much sweeter than it was 3 years ago."
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The Texans are the first team to come calling for Ben Johnson. They won't be the last.
"I just want to say that Ben Johnson is really not that good," said Penei Sewell. "I feel like our players make him better. Y’all don’t want Ben Johnson."
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Dan Campbell’s Thanksgiving plate: “Must have is ham. I’m a big ham guy. I’m not a turkey guy, unless it’s fried turkey. I’m not a dressing fan. I’m not a cranberry fan, I’ll throw that right out to the dogs. Everything else, I’ll load it right on top of each other, full stack.”
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Teddy Bridgewater on Dan Campbell: "I was able to spend those two years with him in New Orleans. Whenever he stood in front of the team and talked, you’re ready to just storm out of that meeting and punch a guy in the face for no reason. Dan is awesome."
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Playoff teams remaining, NFL rank by scoring defense
1. BAL
2. KC
3. SF
23. DET
Goff is the only QB still standing who typically can't lean on the other side of the ball. The
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lean on him.
"We’re glad he’s our quarterback."
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After hometown hero Aidan Hutchinson, Brian Branch drew one of the biggest roars from
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fans during player intros last week.
"It means they believe in me. It shows that they respect my game. I ain’t get that at Bama. For them to do that, it means a lot."
Brian Branch is loving the playoffs, and lifting the
#Lions
: "The games I played at Bama don’t compare"
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GM Brad Holmes: "I want to tell our fans, it’s only going to get better. We're only going to get better. I don't want anybody to think this was a one-shot, Cinderella, magical journey. No, it’s real. This is exactly what was supposed to happen. We love the window we're in"
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After
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fans took over the Superdome, ex-Saints QB Teddy Bridgewater told Jared Goff "he’s never seen anything like that."
Goff: "Doing that in a place like New Orleans that is known for their crowd is really cool, and it’s starting to become a regular thing for us."
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Alex Lange: "When the Lions go out and do what they did and the Red Wings are doing what they do, it’s like, hey, it’s time for the Tigers to do the same. This town’s been starving for a winner for a long time and it’s about time we deliver."
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Detroit is now responsible for the:
- Longest playoff drought in MLB
- 2nd longest playoff drought in NHL
- 2nd longest playoff drought in NBA
- 3rd longest playoff drought in NFL
What the hell did we do?
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Campbell said his phone was flooded with texts after practice yesterday. Feared a death in the family. "And then a cousin of mine is like, 'Hey, I’ll have those 50 cent wings.' I’m like, Oh god, they dropped the commercial."
Said his wife and his daughter talked him into it.
Dan Campbell shows off acting skills as waiter in Applebees commercial
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CJGJ: “We’re gonna be a fu*kin problem.
“We got two more banners to hang.”
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After mulling retirement, Halapoulivaati Vaitai took a major paycut to play another season with the
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"I can’t leave Penei. I can’t leave all my guys. I love this team a lot. I’m going to help Dan win one," he said:
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The sun is rising with the whales, on Opening Day in Detroit. Baseball season is here.
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#Lions
WR Jameson Williams: "We got a real good thing going right now, something that Detroit hasn't seen in a while, and we're just focused on keeping that going. It don't matter who gets the ball. When you see the ball in someone's hands on our team, you see them making plays."
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The Lions are dismantling the Panthers, without their No. 1 receiver, their No. 12 pick and maybe their best defensive back. Jared Goff is doing All-Pro sh*t at Ford Field and this defense is smothering the run.
Impressive team, in every way. This is what a contender looks like.
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At the Masters, Jared Goff told
@MartySmithESPN
that Dan Campbell would probably get bored playing golf because it’s “a little too slow for him.”
Campbell: “Listen, as long as there’s beer, I would never get bored with golf.”
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#Lions
LB Derrick Barnes: "A lot of people don’t know what happens until they play us, what’s hitting them. They think ‘Oh it’s the Detroit Lions,’ until you play us and you’re like, ‘They're the real deal.’
"High respect to the team we’re playing, but we know what we're about."
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Over last two seasons, Goff is second in the NFL to Mahomes in yards, third to Mahomes and Allen in touchdowns and fourth to Mahomes, Allen and Hurts in wins. He has a passer rating of 98.6.
He's a top-10 quarterback who's about to get paid like it: $50ish million/year.
Jared Goff on extension with Lions: "I’ve loved every second of my time here and would love more"
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Idk if these are making it safely to draft night in Detroit
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Dan Campbell on the Lions catching everyone off guard with the 4th down throw to Brock Wright: "That’s because you guys were watching Penei. You were like, 'Oh, they’re about to throw to Penei.' And then you go to a receiver, who would’ve thought it."
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So, does Matthew Stafford pull the pads back on next weekend to save Detroit? Screw the IR, it's the ending we all deserve.
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#Lions
owner Sheila Ford Hamp: “Last year was Phase 1. This year is Phase 2. One of our goals is that at the end of the 2024 season, we will be hoisting the Lombardi Trophy.”
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Just how good was Goff the last two seasons?
He threw for 9,013 yards -- only Mahomes had more
He threw 59 TD's -- only Mahomes and Allen had more
He won 21 games -- only Mahomes, Allen and Hurts won more
And it all boils down to Sunday night. It has to be his moment.
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In the Jahmyr Gibbs-Bijan Robinson debate, remember:
#Lions
don't have Sam LaPorta without trading down from No. 6 to No. 12. Rookie tight end is the real deal.
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CJ Gardner Johnson says the Lions’ young DB’s are ready for the challenge Sunday and raring to go. How’s he know?
“They piss is hot.”
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Terrion Arnold: "I’m a shutdown corner. Brad traded up to get me, that meant a lot to me. I’m gonna go out there and show why he did it."
"It’s an opportunity to go out there and win Defensive Rookie of the Year."
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The 49ers have stars.
#Lions
C Frank Ragnow: "I think we got some stars. You look at Penei Sewell, one of the most special athletes I've ever been around in my life. St. Brown, Jahmyr, Jared, you can go down the list. Just maybe haven't gotten quite the publicity."
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Akil Baddoo on
@ComericaPark
reaction to Haase HR: "It was crazy. We were freaking out. I think the damn place was about to fall down, bro. It definitely felt different. I could feel the vibe: We’re about business. And we’re not taking our foot off the gas."
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The
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rank sixth in the NFL in defense, sixth in the NFL in offense and they're about to put another game-breaking talent on the field. That'll work.
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Jared Goff on Jameson Williams: "It’s not like he’s the first guy in the history of football to have a drop. It’s going to happen. It’s not going to deter me from throwing him the ball. It never will. Long as he keeps getting himself open, going to keep delivering him the ball."
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Miguel Cabrera needed a glove to play first base in the eighth, so he borrowed Spencer Torkelson’s.
Riley Greene later told Hinch, “I’ve never cried on a baseball field until now.”
The end of one era is the dawn of another.
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#Lions
WR Jameson Williams: “It’s a train we’re trying to get going that no one can stop. … This just the beginning.”
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Jared Goff on
#Lions
fans in LA: "That’s the most I’ve ever been a part of as an away team. To be honest, I don’t say this tongue in cheek, I don’t know if was louder for us or them on third down. It was at least even. It’s just a testament to our fans and how loyal they are."
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Will the Buccaneers be prepared for a mobile QB this week after facing Jayden Daniels?
Jared Goff, after his 7-yard rush: "They better be."
"I've been working on it. I'm good for one a game."
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Penei Sewell is here, seeking to become the largest man to ever climb the Comerica Park mound.
Called it a blessing to be a Detroiter
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Bill Belichick on
@MrJackFox
: "Fox is a weapon. He is a weapon: kickoff, punt, punt for accuracy, punt for distance, can throw it like a quarterback. That was a long throw, 15 yards deep, good coverage and he put it right there."
"Best punter in the league. He's outstanding."
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Lions held Baker to 12 completions, sacked him 5 times and limited the Bucs to 70 yards rushing. Impossibly hard to lose that game. They found a way, at home, thanks to turnovers, a coaching blunder and red zone woes. It's rarely easy in the NFL. The Lions have to, well, buck up.
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The
#RedWings
have the most losses in the NHL over the last seven seasons and these lottery picks to show for it: 9, 6, 6, 4, 6, 8, 9. That's the story of their rebuild, to date.
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#Lions
HC Dan Campbell on those first-year losses to teams like the Ravens: "I just remember thinking over and over, 'Enjoy it now. Just enjoy it now. Because our time will come. We just gotta get through the hard stuff.'
"And here we go, man."
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Dan Campbell said Sam LaPorta's knee came out of the game clean, "so I feel like we're over the hump with him. There will always be a little soreness in there, but I think we got away unscathed there. He's going to be feeling even better this week."
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Dan Campbell on the
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being America’s Team: “What a special moment this has been, but it’s not over. So look, if other people are enjoying watching us play, of course we’re all over that. You’re welcome — as long as you weren’t bashing us early.”
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Jahmyr Gibbs: 94.0 yards per game, 5.4 yards per touch
Bijan Robinson: 81.9 yards per game, 5.6 yards per touch
#Lions
6-2 into the bye. OK, back to Dad duty.
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What would Jared Goff tell free agents about Dan Campbell's Lions?
"If you want to play for a real genuine dude who cares a whole hell of a lot about his players, come over here. It’s a fun place to play. He keeps it fun, keeps it light, but also keeps us extremely accountable."
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Justin Verlander texted A.J. Hinch this morning. His message: "There's no place like Detroit" when the Tigers are winning.
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