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Detroit Lions - Team Notes

New book, 'The Lions Finally Roar' Provides a Compelling Look at the Futility and Promise of the Ford Family’s Ownership of the Detroit Lions.
Vintage Detroit
 
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell and his wife Holly are selling their home due to security concerns after their address was leaked online last season.

“The neighborhood, everything,” Campbell told Crain's Detroit Business. “There’s plenty of space, it’s on 2 acres, the home is beautiful. It’s just that people figured out where we lived when we lost.”
Campbell did not provide specifics on any particular incidents that occurred
 
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell and his wife Holly are selling their home due to security concerns after their address was leaked online last season.


Campbell did not provide specifics on any particular incidents that occurred
I can't remember where I read this (I think Reddit so take that for what it's worth), apparently it was a kid in his daughter's high school class who was unhappy with playcalling against the niners and doxxed the family's location online.
 
Greg Landry could pass and run the football. Still the number 1 quarterback in rushing yards. RIP.

Greg Landry Lions Quarterback, 1968-1978.

Detroit Lions legend Greg Landry passes away
The Detroit Lions announced on Friday that legendary quarterback Greg Landry has passed away at the age of 77.
Pride Of Detroit

Lions quarterback, assistant coach Greg Landry dead at 77.
Detnews

Ex-Detroit Lions quarterback Greg Landry dies at 77.
Freep
 
Aidan Hutchinson Final 2024 PFF Statistics:
94.9 Defensive Grade (1st NFL)
95.0 Pass Rush Grade (1st DL)
45 Total QB Pressures (1st)
8 Sacks (t-1st)• 8 QB Hits (1st)
29 Hurries (1st)
14.7 Pass Rush Productivity Grade (1st)
49.5% Pass Rush Win Rate (1st)
 
Today is Lions QB Jared Goff's 30th birthday. Among all QBs in NFL history before turning 30, he ranked:
3rd in completions (2,763)
t-3rd in 300-yd. games (38)
4th in yards (31,759)
4th in attempts (4,256)
t-4th in starts (122)
6th in passing TDs (193)
 
Through 2 weeks of the 2024 NFL season, Jared Goff ranked 25th in the NFL in passer rating (69.6). Over the next four weeks (3 games), he posted a collective 146.6 passer rating, 22 points higher than any other QB over that stretch. He now ranks 5th for the season (105.3).
 
Detroit Lions planning to sign DE off Bengals practice squad.
The Detroit Lions are reportedly planning to sign a young pass rusher from the Bengals’ practice squad.
Pride Of Detroit

Detroit Lions sign DE Isaiah Thomas off Cincinnati Bengals practice squad.
Freep
 
10 EDGE trade candidates for Detroit Lions to replace Aidan Hutchinson.
If the Detroit Lions look outside the organization to replace Aidan Hutchinson, there are 10 edge rushers they should consider.
Pride Of Detroit
 
I'll take one Za'Darius Smith, please. I know hes 32, but hes a solid pro, would be a short term committment and I don't think we would need to mortgage our future.
 
Goff in the last four games: 76-90 for 1,086 yards, 9 TD’s and 1 INT. He’s completing 84.5% of his passes and has a rating of 140.8

The Lions have started at least 5-1 in consecutive seasons for the first time since relocating to Detroit in 1934.

RB Jahmyr Gibbs is the first Lions player to have 600+ scrimmage yards & 6 TDs through the first six games of a season since Barry Sanders in 1991.

The Lions offense is the ONLY team with more offensive TD (18) than incompletions (16) in a 4-game span since the merger.

In yesterday's game, Lions P Jack Fox reached 250-career punts, which qualifies him for all-time NFL
rankings. Among all punters in history, Fox ranks: 2nd in gross average (48.48), 4th in net average (42.74).

Lions DB Brian Branch completed his 20th-career @NFL game today, posting career totals of 24 PDs & 7 INTs. Since the data began being collected in 1999, he is only the 4th player to tally these totals, joining:
Trevon Diggs, Marcus Peters, Brandon Browner.

Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs is the first player in franchise history to post a rushing average of 5.0+ in five-straight games with a minimum of 10 rushing attempts.The NFL record is six-straight games.

The only players in NFL history to have a completion percentage of 72.0%+, throw 2+ TDs and post a passer rating of 110.0+ in four-straight games in a single season: Lions QB Jared Goff (2024) Tom Brady (2007).

In any four-game span in NFL history, Lions QB Jared Goff is the only player to complete 80.0%+ of his passes & post a passer rating of 140.0+In each of his last four games, he's posted at least two TD passes, a 72.0% completion rate & a 110.0+ passer rating.

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@Lions WR Amon Ra St Brown has produced 100+ receiving yards and a TD in three-straight games against Minnesota. He’s the first Lions player since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger to post 100+ receiving yards and a TD in three-straight games against a single opponent.

Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs rushed for a 45-yard TD, the longest rush of his career. He has rushed for a TD in three-straight games against the Vikings, joining Billy Sims (1981-82) for the longest such streak in team history.
 
The only players in NFL history to combine for 25 TD receptions, one passing TD and one rushing TD through the first four seasons of their career:
Lions WR Amon Ra St. Brown (2021-24)
Charley Taylor (1964-67)
Bill Groman (1960-63)
 
Former GM Rick Spielman explains how the Lions went from worst to first by building one of the strongest rosters in the league. "They do it their way, and built it brick by brick."
 
The most rushing TDs in a player's first 20 games with the Lions:
1. 19, David Montgomery
2t. 18, Barry Sanders
2t. 18, Billy Sims
 
After the Vikings’ loss to the Rams, teams that play the Lions one week are now 0-5 the very next week.
Rams lost to the Cardinals.
Bucs lost to the Broncos.
Cardinals lost to the Commanders.
Seahawks lost to the Giants.
Cowboys - bye.
Vikings lost to the Rams.
 
Mr. Do-It-All.

Kalif on bouncing back from his low moment in the league.


so detailed. so innovative.


complementary football is fun.


Kalif shouting out the defense blocking on his PR TD.


Jared Goff's assessment of David Montgomery's TD pass.


"I could go all day talking about Leaf".
x.com

"I'd take this guy in a heartbeat"-DC on Kalif Raymond.
x.com

Coach Campbell on emphasizing takeaways in practice.
x.com

The Lions pounded Tennessee for their fifth win in a row, and are now off to their best start since 1956. Yes, 1956.

Detroit Lions obliterate Tennessee Titans, 52-14, for fifth straight win.
Freep

The Lions scored 50 points for the fourth time in franchise history in a 52-14 win over the Titans. The offensive explosion was fueled by four takeaways and three long kick returns:
Rapid Rewind: Lions obliterate Titans behind takeaways, big returns and fourth 50-point game in franchise history.
Detroit Lions Football Network

Jack Fox is the only player in NFL history to average at least 60.0 gross yards per punt and 55.0 net yards per punt in a game with at least five punts:

Since 1941, there have been three instances in the NFL where a team has logged a 90+ yard punt return and 70+ yard kickoff return in the same game:
1. Lions (10/27/24)
2. Rams (10/19/14)
3. Browns (9/4/94)

The Lions have won two games by +38 points this season. The only other time Detroit has had multiple 38+ point wins in a season was in 1936.

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@Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs is the 4th player in @NFL history to average at least 5.0 yards per carry (10 attempt minimum) in six-straight games, joining:
Adrian Peterson (2012)
Chris Johnson (2009)
Franco Harris (1972)

The first player in NFL history to throw 2+ TD passes and complete at least 72.0% of his passes while posting a passer rating of 110.0+ in five consecutive games:
Lions QB Jared Goff (2024).

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@Lions K Jake Bates has made each of the first 11 field goal attempts of his career. This is the most consecutive field goal makes a player has had to start a Lions tenure.

Over their last four games, the Lions have scored 162+ points and 21+ TDs. This marks the most points and TDs the Lions have ever scored in any four-game span in a single season.

Lions WR Kalif Raymond registered a 90-yard punt return TD.This ties for the second-longest punt return TD in franchise history and longest in a home game since 1963.

For the first time in Lions history, five different players produced TDs in the first half of a game.

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Lions S Kerby Joseph is the NFL's first safety to produce 13 interceptions in a player's first three-career seasons since S Jairus Byrd (2009-11).

Lions RB David Montgomery is the third RB in franchise history to throw a TD pass, joining RBs James Jones (Nov. 4, 1984 vs. PHI) and Tom Watkins (Oct. 4, 1964 vs. NYG).

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@Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown has tallied 5+ receiving touchdowns in each of his first four-career seasons, joining Roy Williams as the only two players in franchise history to do so.

Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown has produced a TD reception in five-straight games. He is the first Lions player to log a TD catch in five-straight games in a season since Calvin Johnson in 2011.

Lions S Kerby Joseph is the first Lions safety to record 5 INTs in a season since Glover Quin in 2014. He has 13 INTs through the first three seasons of his career, tied for the third-most by a Lions player since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger.

For the first time since 1936, the Lions have rushed for 100+ yards and a rushing TD in each of the first seven games of a season.

Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs' 70-yard rushing TD was the longest TD rush by a Lions player at Ford Field
since Jahvid Best rushed for an 88-yard score vs. Chicago on Oct. 10, 2011.

Today marks the 19th game Lions RBs David Montgomeery & Jahmyr Gibbs have played together.They are the first RB duo in NFL history to each accumulate at least 1,500 scrimmage yards and 15 scrimmage TDs in a tandem's first 20 games together.

Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs is the first Lions player to produce a rushing TD of 45+ yards in consecutive games since Dutch Clark in 1934.

Lions RB David Montgomery has rushed for a TD in nine of his first 10 home games as a Lion.He is the 4th player in NFL history to rush for a TD in nine of a player's first 10 home games with a team.
 
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