The Detroit Lions made the playoffs this season despite not having much of a running game all season. The biggest reason for that was because Jahvid Best was dealing with concussions…again. He’s not had three concussions in his last three football seasons dating back to Cal. That’s not a good thing and these concussions were [...]
We all know how unhappy Philadelphia Eagles CB Asante Samuel has been this year. The team went out and traded for Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (which didn’t specifically piss him off) and then signed big-ticket free agent Nnamdi Asomugha (that pissed him off). Then there were all the rumors in training camp – and later in the [...]
Detroit Lions DT Ndamukong Suh has some free time on his hands. He decided on Thanksgiving that he would clean his cleats off on Green Bay Packers lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith, after he tried to talk some sense into him by ramming his head into the turf repeatedly. The NFL didn’t appreciate that and decided to [...]
If you watched any football at all on Thanksgiving, you surely saw the work of Detroit Lions DT Ndamukong Suh. We won’t say that his actions were reprehensible, but they were indeed inexcusable and not appropriate for an NFL field. Many people are calling for Suh to be suspended, and there is an interesting faction [...]
It’s Thanksgiving, so surely you watched a little NFL football on this glorious day. Did you happen to see the first game between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers? Did you happen to notice the egregious indiscretion that Ndamukong Suh laid onto Evan Dietrich-Smith? Well, you can check it out here. Suh decided [...]
Well this sucks. Remember Erik Kramer, a quarterback who did an admirable job for the Detroit Lions and Chicago Bears in the 1990′s? His 18-year old son Griffen was found dead in his friend’s home on Sunday. Yeah, that’s terrible. School officials gave preliminary word that “his passing was due to alcohol poisoning.” They also [...]
As we mentioned before, the Detroit Lions shellacked the Denver Broncos 45-10 on Sunday and Broncos QB Tim Tebow looked absolutely abysmal during the course of the game. What’s worse? Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports says that numerous Lions players felt after the game that Tebow was a joke. “Can you believe ’15’?” one Detroit [...]
One of the things we were most excited about this season was the Detroit Lions drafting Nick Fairley at No. 13-overall in the draft. There was talk at one point that he could be the first guy taken, but he ended up sliding to 13 for a variety of reasons. So, Detroit got him and [...]
File this under “WOW.” The Philadelphia Eagles tried to trade Ronnie Brown to the Detroit Lions this week for Jerome Harrison and a seventh-round pick. The trade was canceled and Brown was returned to the Eagles because Harrison failed a physical. This was odd to most because Harrison wasn’t on the Week 6 injury report. [...]
Detroit Lions RB Jahvid Best is dealing with a concussion and it’s not the first time. He had a nasty one at Cal that caused him to miss the final four games of that season, and it doesn’t seem like his concussion issues are going away. According to Mike Freeman of CBS Sports, people close [...]
Hey there, fantasy football fans. Disappointed in your Dez Bryant pick this year? You should be! He’s a supreme talent who is made of a cheap Chinese plastic! However, he is active today for the Dallas Cowboys and you might want to get him in your lineup. With Miles Austin out, he and Jason Witten [...]
While we don’t openly root for any sports teams (yes we do), we do have some allegiances. And I’ll be the first one to say that Buddy Ryan is the most overrated coach in the history of the Philadelphia Eagles. However, he did provide some of the greatest moments in team history and for that [...]
Oh, those poor Detroit Lions. Even when they seem to be headed in the right direction, little things pop up that hold them back. Count OTR among the folks that are dying to see Nick Fairley play alongside Nkamukong Suh. And apparently, we’ll have to wait. According to Chris McCoskey on Twitter, Fairley is in [...]
Every year before the NFL draft, there is tons of speculation about this player and that player and whose stock is rising, whose is falling and what players have been erased off of teams’ draft boards completely. And as far as that last point, there are rumors that some teams have wiped Colorado CB Jimmy [...]
In the 2007 NFL Draft, the Detroit Lions did something they were used to doing. They used the No. 2-overall pick on Calvin Johnson. They had to this time. He was a “can’t miss” prospect. But this time, they were right. Johnson is a baller. However, baller’s only can take so much losing. And since [...]
The Detroit Lions have faced enough adversity recently. Matt Stafford has been injured the last two years. They had to recover from a ton of stink bomb years and decisions by Matt Millen. Now, they won’t even have Shaun Hill to bail them out at QB. Hill busted his index finger in Thursday’s butt stomping [...]
This isn’t good. So far, it looks like Matt Stafford, the No. 1-overall pick in the 2009 draft, could be a decent QB in the NFL for the Detroit Lions. However, these major injuries are troubling. Earlier this year, he missed some six weeks with an injury to his throwing shoulder. And on Sunday, he [...]
As if it wasn’t weird enough in the NFC East with the Dallas Cowboys stinking up the joint (again) and the Philadelphia Eagles not being able to decide which mediocre QB to start, now the Redskins are joining the circus. Specifically, they decided that Rex Grossman gave them a better chance to win with two [...]
This could finally be the week where the Detroit Lions get Matthew Stafford back as their starter. Drew Stanton even had to get in the game last week because they had so many guys get hurt. But, Stafford said on The Dan Patrick Show on Tuesday that, barring a setback, he’s ready to return to [...]
I was a scorching 1-for-4 last week, and you just don’t see that kind of production from most websites. This week has some tough matchups (I truthfully haven’t even looked yet) so let’s get right to the picking for Week 5 in the NFL. Denver Broncos at Baltimore Ravens (-7) This is going to be [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, OTR’s predictions for sports events are different than other sites, because we’ve never ever been wrong. Whether it’s a mock draft or just a regular season game, we are always 100% spot on. How many can say that? So, with that in mind, let’s take a look a couple of the [...]
We hear tons of things every year from training camps all over the country. The problem is, many of these writers don’t exactly know what they’re watching or what they are talking about. Sorry, but in some cases it’s true. However, we trust Tom Kowalski of MLive.com. He’s as plugged in to the Detroit Lions [...]
Mel Kiper described Ndamukong Suh as “maybe the most dominating defensive tackle I’ve seen in 32 years.” And now the Detroit Lions can celebrate. They have agreed to a five-year deal with their second-overall pick worth $60 million, $40 million guaranteed, according to Jay Glazer. Suh is expected to be a key part of the [...]
Oh boy, this could get ugly. Take this with a grain of salt because it’s coming from Chris Mortensen of ESPN, but he is correct occasionally. Mort says that No. 2-overall pick Ndamukong Suh is looking for more money than the St. Louis Rams gave to the top pick, Sam Bradford. “Word is that Suh’s [...]
This makes perfect sense to us. Last year’s top-overall pick in the NFL, Matthew Stafford of the Detroit Lions, got $41.7 million guaranteed when he signed. Well, that mark just got shattered. The St. Louis Rams have agreed to a six-year, $78 million contract with QB Sam Bradford. With – get this – $50 million [...]