Unsung hero: The Ford Field crowd. Unrelenting. Loudest I've ever heard. And they forced the Rams to use two timeouts to avoid delay of games in the second half.
Dave Birkett
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Dave Birkett
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- All the Lions DBs wore Brian Branch jerseys to the game today to support their suspended brother
- Amon-Ra St. Brown is a straight killer. Lions are lucky to have him. Said he spent part of last week’s game vs. Washington looking for Dyami Brown, one of the WRs taken before him in 2020 draft: “I didn’t see him in the game much.” St Brown went 9-116-2; Brown was 0-0-0.
- Incredibly sad sign of where we are right now: Lions OC Anthony Lynn said he had to pause a meeting today because one of his coaches’ young teenage daughters was afraid to go to school. The Oxford shooting has opened wounds all over. Hopefully they heal. And hopefully this stops
- Everyone on this Detroit to Dallas flight watching the Tigers
- My dad took the kids to the Tigers game yesterday ... and my son is currently walking around the house chanting, "Yankees suck! Yankees suck!"
- Here’s the play Branch was talking about getting blocked in the back, what he said led to the postgame incidentBrian Branch blocked in back by JuJu Smith-Schuster video
00:00 - Teddy Bridgewater told me he plans to retire after the season and go coach high school football. What a ride it's been. On the Detroit Lions' backup QB, the impact he's had on the team's young locker room - and the locker room on him freep.com/story/sports/n… via @freep
- Like I was saying...Vaki is definitely catching a fake punt from Fox this year against a team that comes really hard off the edge
- The fan Fox cameras showed when Aidan Hutchinson briefly went down with an injury in Sunday’s first half was every Lions fan everywhere freep.com/story/sports/n…
00:00 - David Montgomery on his TD celebration today: "I think me and Jamo will get fined today, but I’m excited for that fine."
- Bucs QB Baker Mayfield today on playing in Ford Field: "Talking to some of those Rams guys, they said it was the loudest thing they’ve ever heard. So we’ve got to be completely ready for that."
- Bob Quinn with some interesting thoughts on his post-draft news conference. Said the virtual draft has made him think about having a better spring work/life balance, maybe tone down the hours and work smarter rather than longer, do more virtual
