During the second half of the Lions-Browns game, the press-box PA announcer informed us that “Joey Stafford” had just set a Lions rookie passing record.
I think it is fair to say that will be the last time that anyone connected with the Lions confuses Matt Stafford with Joey Harrington.
Joey had physical skills, but he struggled [...]
Jim Schwartz doesn’t think his team can win a game.
I’m not sure that I blame him.
Sunday, playing a horrible St. Louis team, the Lions didn’t even try to attack offensively. Instead, they came out with two running backs and two tight ends and tried to nibble the Rams to death. It didn’t work.
I understand Calvin [...]
#13 Penn State 35, Michigan 10
So what did we learn on a cold, drizzly October afternoon? Not a whole lot that we didn’t already suspect. Michigan had already proven that they aren’t nearly as bad as they were last year, and they still aren’t ready to rejoin the top tier of Big Ten teams.
For a [...]
I’m writing this post from the press box at Ford Field. Eight stories below me, Drew Henson is warming up in his new Detroit Lions #12 jersey. The Lions signed him yesterday as an emergency fill-in while Drew Stanton recovers from a thumb injury.
This isn’t how it was supposed to happen. Ten years ago, he [...]
Allen Park, Mich. – The Detroit Lions announced today that they have signed free agent RB Artose Pinner to a one-year deal.
Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is “the belief that one can get different results by doing the same thing.”
Apparently, Matt Millen is no Albert Einstein.
How many times now has Millen [...]
Detroit Tigers: (12-15, 3 games behind Chicago)
When the Tigers started 0-6, everyone started talking about 2003 – including me, but that was because AP paid me to do it – but this team isn’t nearly that bad.
In 2003, there wasn’t any talent. In 2008, there was a lot of injured and slumping talent. There’s a [...]