Tag: "Detroit Lions"

Young banned from Lions’ facility after fight
0

Young banned from Lions’ facility after fight

Well, this doesn’t sound good. Detroit Lions WR Titus Young showed some promise as a rookie, but this isn’t the way you’d want to start your second season. Young has been banned from the team’s facility for OTA’s after he got into a fight with safety Louis Delmas, according to beat writer Anwar Richardson of [...]

Leshoure arrested for second pot offense
0

Leshoure arrested for second pot offense

The NFL career of Mikel Leshoure is off to a pretty terrible start. After being selected in the second round of the 2011 NFL draft by the Detroit Lions, he just can’t get things going. He missed all of last year with a torn Achilles tendon and things have just gotten worse. ESPN 96.1 is [...]

Best expected to return to Lions
0

Best expected to return to Lions

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 [...]

Asante was almost a Detroit Lion?
0

Asante was almost a Detroit Lion?

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 [...]

Ndamukong gets into acc-Suh-dent
0

Ndamukong gets into acc-Suh-dent

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 [...]

Teammates even think Suh should be suspended?
0

Teammates even think Suh should be suspended?

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 [...]

Ndamukong Suh…what are you doing? (video)
0

Ndamukong Suh…what are you doing? (video)

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 [...]

Erik Kramer’s son found dead
0

Erik Kramer’s son found dead

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 [...]

Lions thought Tebow was “embarrassing”
0

Lions thought Tebow was “embarrassing”

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 [...]

Nick is Fairley disappointing so far
0

Nick is Fairley disappointing so far

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 [...]

Harrison has a brain tumor
0

Harrison has a brain tumor

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. [...]

Best should sit out the entire year?
0

Best should sit out the entire year?

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 [...]

Dez Bryant is active
0

Dez Bryant is active

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 [...]

Rob Ryan…shut the hell up
2

Rob Ryan…shut the hell up

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 [...]

Stress fracture for Fairley?
0

Stress fracture for Fairley?

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 [...]

Smith’s character concerns won’t hurt him too much?
0

Smith’s character concerns won’t hurt him too much?

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 [...]

Johnson wants to win
1

Johnson wants to win

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 [...]

Hill done for the season?
0

Hill done for the season?

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 [...]

Stafford done for the year?
0

Stafford done for the year?

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 [...]

McNabb benched in loss to Lions
3

McNabb benched in loss to Lions

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 [...]

Stafford expects to start this week
0

Stafford expects to start this week

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 [...]

Micah’s Week 5 NFL picks
0

Micah’s Week 5 NFL picks

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 [...]

Micah’s Week 3 NFL picks
2

Micah’s Week 3 NFL picks

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 [...]

Johnson looking unstoppable?
5

Johnson looking unstoppable?

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 [...]

Ndamukong Suh inks five-year deal
10

Ndamukong Suh inks five-year deal

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 [...]