The Detroit Lions hopes of ten wins and a playoff birth have all but come to an end Sunday. The 51-14 loss to San Diego is the back breaker on this once promising season.Read more »
Wide receiver Roy Williams thought the Lions were going to trade him earlier this offseason, and even after coach Rod Marinelli assured him he wasn't going anywhere, he still wasn't 100 percent certain he was staying.
"From all the rumors, I thought I was out of here," Williams said. "Just from listening to everything. But then I listened to Coach saying I wasn't going nowhere, so that reassured me that I wasn't going anywhere."
Williams said Marinelli called him once in March.
Asked if that was all he needed to hear or if he had any doubts after that, Williams said: "I mean, I don't think it was zero-percent chance I wasn't going anywhere. I think if somebody would have come with something that could have benefited the Lions, I think I would have been out of...
The Chicago Bears haven't had much luck finding a consistent feature back over the past two decades. Rookie Matt Forte is their best bet to reestablish a strong running game.
Former Detroit Lions defensive end Robert Porcher on Monday was sentenced to 50 hours of community service and a year of probation after pleading no contest to assaulting his former wife.
Former Detroit Lions defensive end Robert Porcher has been sentenced to 50 hours of community service for an assault on his ex-wife. Porcher also was given one year probation and ordered Monday to have no contact with Kimberly Porcher except through text messages or e-mail. The 38-year-old plead no contest to the charge in the Bloomfield Township, Mich., court following his arrest in December on a...
The Chicago Bears haven't had much luck finding a consistent feature back over the past two decades. Rookie Matt Forte is their best bet to reestablish a strong running game.
The Detroit Lions signed free agent running back Artose Pinner to a one-year deal Thursday, reacquiring a player they drafted in 2003. The 5-foot-10, 232-pound Pinner rejoins the Lions entering his sixth NFL season. Pinner was picked by Detroit in the fourth round, and played for the Lions through the 2005 season.
Nearly 15 minutes pass before the first question about football and the Detroit Lions gets asked. Like every other player drafted by the NFL last weekend, Caleb Campbell has been poked, probed, weighed, timed and tested to exhaustion. None, though, have had their motives so thoroughly scrutinized. "I know they're rebuilding their defense," cadet Capt.
Even though Oakland's run D was so bad in '07, Warren Sapp says Darren McFadden was the way to go.
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