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NFL Draft editor @TheAthletic . Emergency QB on the Lions’ beat. If you take everything I've accomplished and condense it into one day, it looks decent.

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Chris Burke
2 years
Man, they scored 42 points.
@UMichFootball
Michigan Football
2 years
I am so incredibly sorry. I know there are no words. The families and community of Oxford are in need of every prayer that we can possibly offer them. Lifting you all up before the one who conquered death. – Jim Harbaugh, Michigan Head Football Coach #OxfordStrong
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3 years
If anyone ever broke into my house, they’d get Home Alone’d by accident because my kids don’t pick up any of their shit.
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This bunch of goofballs saved a franchise.
@Lions
Detroit Lions
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Draft Room rocking that Dan Campbell 89 today‼️
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4 years
“Explain the Chargers to me.” “Well, imagine a Choose Your Own Adventure book but no matter what choice you make you die.”
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2 years
Dan Campbell gives the game ball to the Oxford community, then reads off the names of the students and teacher who were shot during the tragedy this week.
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3 months
Reynolds catches that first one and the Lions are probably in the Super Bowl. It's a pretty thin line between brilliance and insanity, and Campbell's entire approach has been built on being OK with landing on either side because he believes in his guys.
@JoshNorris
Josh Norris
3 months
if you didn't think Dan Campbell was going for it... then we watched different Lions games all season
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2 years
Lions win the toss and defer. Bears then also try to defer and are told they cannot, so they'll take the ball. Good start.
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7 years
Good lord.
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3 years
Matthew Stafford was asked why it was important for him to play. "I’m the quarterback of the Detroit Lions, and it was Sunday, and I got a bunch of teammates out there that work their ass off. ... If I’m good enough to play, healthy enough to play, my ass is gonna be out there."
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3 years
Levi Onwuzurike, with an all-timer of a quote: "I like fucking people up. I like to get off the line and just put my helmet or my hands on an offensive lineman and fuck up an offensive scheme, pretty much. I like pushing 'em back 2, 3 yards and just making 'em feel like shit."
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7 years
DeMarcus Ware using a fake spin move on Joe Staley remains an all-time gem.
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8 years
Eli Apple's mom might have won draft week. Here she is on her son's experience.
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6 years
Someone lock Jon Gruden in a basement before he trades Amari Cooper for a picture of the 1985 Bears' defense.
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4 months
The Red Wings also beat the Leafs and the Pistons didn’t play, perfect Detroit sports night.
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6 years
Calvin Ridley is slick, man.
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8 months
Going from OSU-ND to this was an experience.
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3 years
Frank Ragnow is a terrific football player. He's also just a good, genuine person.
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3 years
The bye week opens as a 13.5-point favorite over the Lions.
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3 years
The number of very smart NFL minds who all of a sudden are going, “Holy shit, have you seen this Stafford dude play” is hilarious.
@PFF
PFF
3 years
Where can Matthew Stafford take the Rams offense?
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8 months
Dan Campbell is gonna draft this dude twice.
@colecubelic
Cole Cubelic
8 months
MY GOD John Campbell escorting a Cavalier to the stands🤯 I mean the UT kids are celebrating & he's rolling this dude 8 yards out of the end zone!!
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3 years
Jeff Okudah picking off Matthew Stafford in the Madden 22 trailer:
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4 years
*waits for the NFL to ban it*
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Warren Sharp
4 years
Innovation & thinking outside the box
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5 years
Eastern Michigan with the miracle blocked punt for the win.
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3 months
Wings scored three goals in the first five minutes, Ben Johnson stays hot early in games.
@m_bultman
Max Bultman
3 months
Lions OC Ben Johnson on the goal horn today
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Chris Burke
5 years
Lions have lost three straight, Wings have lost five straight, Michigan’s out of the Big Ten race, Quandre’s gone, Blake’s hurt, Joshua Langford’s hurt, Franz Wagner’s hurt and the World Series is all former Tigers, but pretty good sports week around here otherwise.
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Chris Burke
6 years
This might be the worst play I've ever seen.
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4 months
Brad Allen pointed at Skipper, completely ignored Sewell and Decker and decided for himself who was reporting? What are we doing here?
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Nick Baumgardner
4 months
so who didn’t report then?
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2 years
Stafford on the support from Lions fans: "It was amazing. There's no reason for them to cheer for me anymore, and the fact that they did was just a true testament to who they are as people and who they are as fans."
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NFL GameDay
2 years
Nothing but love for Detroit from Matt 💙
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2 years
Detroit was on the clock for approximately 1.3 seconds.
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7 years
A 15-yard penalty for jumping into a giant Salvation Army bucket one week before Christmas. Why are you the way that you are, NFL?
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3 years
I would pay money to see Matthew Stafford’s reaction if Rodgers gets traded into the NFC West.
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2 years
How’re ya feeling, Lions fans?
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3 years
Taylor Decker: 27 years old Frank Ragnow: 25 Jonah Jackson: 24 Penei Sewell; 20 That group could be together for a long time. #Lions
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3 years
Rest easy, buddy.
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3 years
oof
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2 years
The last time the Lions and Pistons won on the same day was Nov. 19, 2017.
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14 days
If they don’t let Dan Campbell crowdsurf at least once, what’s even the point
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2 years
Hello.
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3 years
Marvin Jones' TD catch is under review for possibly roughing Kirk Cousins.
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2 years
Lions currently hold picks 1 and 13 in the 2023 draft. So there's that.
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3 years
Every NFL coach: “Stafford is underrated.” Everyone in Michigan:
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7 years
Maybe next year.
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3 years
I don’t know which Detroit team will be good first, but fans are going to LOSE THEIR DAMN MINDS over that team. Entire state is just begging for one competitive season.
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7 years
Browns' current 2018 picks: Rd 1 Rd 1 (HOU) Rd 2 Rd 2 (HOU) Rd 2 (PHI) Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 4 (CAR) Rd 5 Rd 5 (KC) Rd 6 Rd 6 (PIT) Rd 7
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7 years
Recommended reading for today: Gary Smith's remarkable piece on the life and death of Pat Tillman.
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3 years
Calvin Johnson on a Zoom this morning, looking rather happy to be a Hall of Famer.
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3 years
T.J. Hockenson had 84 yards receiving Sunday. He needs 164 yards over the Lions' final four games to set the franchise's single-season receiving record for a tight end.
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6 years
Don’t think Kerryon Johnson loved his first taste of Michigan winter, after the Lions practiced outside today. Sounded like he was trying to list himself on the injury report with “frozen ass.”
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3 years
This is kinda hard to believe, but the referee (Scott Novak) and back judge (Terrence Miles) from yesterday’s Ravens-Lions game also were part of the officiating crews for the Lions-Packers Hail Mary game in 2015 *and* the Lions-Falcons 10-second runoff game in 2017.
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3 years
is he going to kill jimmy garoppolo
@BenStandig
Ben Standig
3 years
Kyle Shanahan is asked if Jimmy Garoppolo will be on the roster Sunday. Punts the response by saying he can't guarantee any of us will be alive Sunday. Alrighty.
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4 years
Gonna side with Charles Tillman on this one.
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9 months
The Lions' Rasheed Wallace.
@AtoZ_Payton
Mike Payton
9 months
Gardner-Johnson talks so much trash that he even does it in a preseason game he’s not even playing in.
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5 months
Time to see what these guys can do about erasing the Billups-for-Iverson trade.
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7 years
New Mexico State holy hell 👀
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7 months
Feels like ages ago. It’s been remarkable to see Goff entrench himself right at the heart of this thing.
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7 years
Good night, sweet prince.
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4 years
Glover Quin has logged on.
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4 months
Not even borderline. It’s a clear neutral zone infraction.
@JomboyMedia
Jomboy Media
4 months
Calling this a false start on the Lions is just a flat out miss
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2 years
Good morning.
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5 years
Imagine time traveling from 2014 to now and finding this photo.
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David Lombardi
5 years
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5 months
The Big Ten just won’t stop.
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
5 months
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — US says wolverines are threatened with extinction as climate change melts their snowy refuges in the Rocky Mountains.
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3 years
Jim Caldwell is a phenomenal person. A good coach. I get why his ex-players go to bat for him. The Lions also were 25-23 in his last 48 games. They beat two teams that finished with winning records in 2016-17 combined. It was OK to want more. This doesn’t have to be about that.
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Chris Burke
1 year
Oh so they’re actually going for it
@TomPelissero
Tom Pelissero
1 year
The #Lions are signing safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson to a one-year, $8 million deal with $6.5M fully guaranteed signing, per sources. His agent, Kevin Conner of @UniSportsMgmt , confirmed the deal, which reunites Gardner-Johnson, Dan Campbell and Aaron Glenn.
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3 years
From the NFL's Pro Bowl voting update this morning: T.J. Hockenson leads all NFC tight ends, with more than 88,000 votes.
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6 years
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse The sun has gone down and the moon has come up And long ago somebody left with the cup But he’s striving and driving and hugging the turns and thinking of someone for whom he s
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4 years
The Lions are having a good draft.
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3 years
Since the Bengals eliminated the Lions from the playoffs on Christmas Eve 2017, Detroit’s big four (Lions, Tigers, Wings, Pistons) have a combined winning percentage of .358. Together, they are 213 games under .500 during that stretch.
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Aqib Talib: "If you could find a way to add (Jameson Williams) on the outside and let Amon-Ra St. Brown work inside, with Hockenson, with Swift, with this O-line, with the way Jared Goff has been playing lately, this could be a dangerous offense. This could be a dangerous team."
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3 years
Frank Ragnow posts a few thoughts on Matthew Stafford’s departure:
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8 years
Christian McCaffrey is not fair.
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2 years
Amon-Ra is the real deal, man.
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3 years
Miggy has two homers since the Pistons picked Cade, it’s all happening.
@BradGalli
Brad Galli
3 years
Here’s career home run No. 497 for Miguel Cabrera 🎥: @tigers
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1 year
Lions gotta re-sign this man.
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Jomboy Media
1 year
The 2023 interview of the year is already locked in
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8 years
If you mute this Trump speech, it looks like they're holding a bachelor auction but no one will bid on Chris Christie.
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3 years
Dan Campbell's press conference is over. I assume he's now going out to the parking lot to pull a truck with his teeth.
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3 years
Matthew Stafford, Week 9. Matthew Stafford, Week 13. (via @NextGenStats )
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7 years
Martellus Bennett.
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7 years
Tom Brady's 40th birthday #tbt to Brady's Madden 2001 rating.
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3 years
Per league source, the Lions had seven or eight teams in the bidding, all with first-round picks on the table. They viewed the Rams' offer as far and away the best one.
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2 years
The Tigers might go 8-154.
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2 years
. @TomPelissero says the Lions, Browns and Chiefs are among the teams in on Allen Robinson.
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Jamaal Williams said he was disappointed the Packers let him walk. "I was just all-in for Green Bay. ... I wanted to stay there." But: "I already think of myself as my own main character in my own anime show. ... And I’m hitting another chapter. The chapter of the Lions, baby."
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Lions asked Jamaal to help them fix a shattered culture. He did that, beyond any expectation, then tossed in 1,000 yards and 17 TDs as a bonus. If this stays on the right track, he’ll have been a *huge* reason why. But you also don’t want your GM making decisions with his heart.
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Nick Baumgardner
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As a player, David Montgomery is a two-years younger version of Jamaal Williams -- who was an outstanding signing by Brad Holmes ... two years ago. Tough to lose the leadership, but that's biz. Also: Still don't think this takes RB off the table for Detroit in the draft.
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Calvin Johnson on his relationship with the Lions: “I know that myself and Sheila Hamp, we’ve had some great conversations recently. ... I think we’re moving in the right direction.”
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2 months
don’t stop me
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Mike Daniels asked why he picked Detroit. “Coach Patricia, straight up. He’s just a genius, he really is. He understands the game of football, he knows what it takes. To be able to play for a coach like that, it means everything.”
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2 years
Dan Campbell's reaction to the Jaguars taking Travon Walker, via the @Lions ' latest Inside the Den episode.
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2 years
Lions have the ball with two minutes left, tie game, their quarterback is hurt, they can't complete a pass, it's raining, we got no food, we got no job, our pets' heads are falling off
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Tom Kennedy said the Lions got their second trick play Sunday -- the reverse flea-flicker TD to Brock Wright -- from David Blough, who ran it multiple times at Purdue. The play call:
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Marvin Jones on that incompletion the Lions challenged: "I knew I had it. Obviously, when I caught the ball, my feet were down. ... Both my feet were down when the ball was in my hands. I don't know if I can say too much without getting in trouble."
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7 years
Jourdan Lewis gets one back against Jalen Robinette, a WR with five inches on him. Mayock loved this one.
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8 years
This was a catch in Super Bowl XII.
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8 years
Stages of a Belichick trade: 1. Shock 2. Anger 3. Rationalization 4. Acceptance 5. Complete social-media destruction of player traded
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7 months
Lions fans showed up for years and years when the team was a mess, they’re not gonna miss this.
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Colton Pouncy 🌴
7 months
Honolulu Blue starting to fill in
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4 years
It didn't count because of a holding penalty, but I feel like we need to appreciate this Matthew Stafford throw for another moment. This is 60 yards in the air, falling away, over two defenders, dropped in the bucket. Great catch by Marvin Hall, too.
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Wearing Lions colors, NFL accidentally leaked part of the script.
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#SBLVIII is about to be bananas 🍌 @gwenstefani is headlining year 4 of #TikTokTailgate ! Don’t miss the live stream exclusively on @tiktok_us on February 11.
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what the hell is happening
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