Sports in Perspective
As the offseason heats up for the Detroit Lions’ front office, decision time has finally come. The first decision made by general manager Martin Mayhew was to place the franchise tag on defensive end Cliff Avril. The tag will keep Avril in Detroit for the 2012 season for $10.6 million. Both Avril and Mayhew have [...]
So far, all has been quiet for the Detroit Lions this offseason. The Lions have not signed any free agents, have not re-signed any of their own players whose contracts have expired, and have not given any indication as to how they will approach the upcoming draft. For this article, I’ll play Martin Mayhew and [...]
After a 2010 campaign that saw Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford throw for 535 yards and six touchdowns, the 5,038 yards and 41 TD’s this year was somewhat of an improvement. Stafford missed 13 games last season due to injury, but this year showed critics what he can do when healthy for a full season. Stafford [...]
If I said the Lions need to go out and get a quarterback this offseason, even the biggest bandwagon-jumper would be able to remind me of the season Matthew Stafford just had. Stafford’s 5,000+ yards passing and 41 touchdowns were both Lion records, but it is in fact true that one of the Lions’ more [...]
After the anguish of being eliminated from the playoffs passed and I had time to really think about the 2011 Detroit Lions, my mood lightened. Yes, the team was ousted by a wide margin in New Orleans and the game was tough to stomach for Lions fans, but hope remains. The Lions had a special [...]
For the very first time in my brief sports writing career, I don’t know where to begin. First, I should start by saying that the 45-28 drubbing the Saints put on the Lions seemed a lot closer than the score for much of the game. The result just doesn’t seem right. Yes, the Saints were [...]
Jim Schwartz has no shortage of bulletin board material this week. Not only is this the Lions first playoff appearance since 1999, not only would a win be the franchise’s first since George H.W. Bush was president, but now the Saints have upped the ante. Shortly after the Superdome was cleared out following a University [...]
When I took this position as the Detroit Lions correspondent here at isportsweb, I’d be lying if I said I expected to still be writing in week 18. The playoffs have been something Lion fans constantly talk about, but only the foolish ones actually believed the team had a chance at going to the postseason. [...]
Had you told me that the Lions would score 41 points against a Packer team without Aaron Rodgers, and I would have predicted a Lions win. Today, my prediction would have been wrong, as backup quarterback Matt Flynn led Green Bay to a 45-41 victory. Flynn played like a perennial all-star on Sunday, or at [...]
In a league where any team can beat just about any other team on any given week (see Colts def. Texans last week), the Detroit Lions have been the exception of that rule. It has been since 1991 that the Lions have beaten the Packers at their home turf, Lambeau Field. But the Lions haven’t [...]