May 29th, 2009 
David Gillikin 
Posted in The Washington Times is reporting that the Detroit Lions have agreed on a one-year deal for the veteran minimum with offensive tackle Jon Jansen, pending a physical. Jansen was cut by the Washington Redskins earlier today and was snapped up by the Lions hours later. He played the past 9 seasons with Washington. Coach Jim [...]
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Former Lion Great Terry Barr Passes Away at 73
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that former Lions great Terry Barr passed away earlier today: Former Detroit Lions great Terry Barr, a rookie on the team’s last championship team in 1957, has died at 73. The team says Barr died Thursday after an extended illness. He was a third-round draft pick in 1957 and played [...]
Lions Conference Call a Success
I admit I was a bit skeptical when I heard about this. Last week I received an email from The Detroit Lions telling me about a conference call that they were going to do with every season ticket holder that wanted to participate. All you had to do when they called, was to answer the [...]
Loper Will Get Chance To Start At Left Guard
MLive.com reports that new Lion Daniel Loper will get a shot to be the teams starting left guard in 2009: There wasn’t much fanfare surrounding the offseason acquisition of offensive lineman Daniel Loper. Loper, who defected from Tennessee to follow new Lions head coach Jim Schwartz to Detroit, was a versatile backup for the Titans. [...]
Top 10 Receivers
The Sporting News has come out with a list of the top receivers in the NFL, and while you can hardly argue with their picks, it’s always fun to do it anyway. When ranking wide receivers, I think that you need to take into account at least 3years of playing time. It’s great to say [...]
Lions Sign Former Packers DE Jason Hunter
The Lions have themselves another defensive end, as Scout.com reports that the team has come to terms with former Green Bay Packers defensive end Jason Hunter. The veteran defensive end was cut recently by the Packers after signing with them in 2006 and playing in 42 games as a reserve defensive lineman. Hunter was not [...]
Matt Millen Hired by ESPN
It was going to happen at sometime, the only question was, where? Matt Millen was hired yesterday by sports mega giant ESPN as a game and studio analyst. Millen will work as a college football game analyst and will contribute to ESPN’s NFL studio coverage throughout the year, appearing on “Monday Night Countdown,” “NFL Live,” [...]
RB Kevin Smith Says Lions Will Make the Playoffs
I won’t make a prediction about how many games we’re going to win, but I will say this: We will definitely make the playoffs this season. Believe it or not we weren’t far off last year. Almost every game we could have won, we were one play or one player short. Except for Tennessee on [...]
