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Detroit Lions - Team Notes

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Player awards: Offensive MVP. Quarterback Matthew Stafford was named the Bobby Layne Offensive MVP by his teammates.
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This award is given in memory of quarterback Bobby Layne who sparked the Lions to three NFL Championships and four Western Division titles during the 1950s, including back-to-back world championships in 1952 and '53. He established virtually every career passing record, including attempts (2,193), completions (1,074), yardage (15,710) and touchdown passes (118). Bobby Layne was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967.
 
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Another one of PFF?s new awards to debut, the Dick ?Night Train? Lane Award is to be given to the defender who has performed the best in pass-coverage over the course of the season.

Today?s NFL may bear little resemblance to the game of the 1950s, and as passing and coverage records continue to tumble with the ball in the air more than ever before, one record belonging to ?Night Train? Lane has continued to stand: most interceptions in a single season.

In Lane?s first season in the NFL (at the age of 24), he picked off 14 passes in coverage, leading the league and setting a record that hasn?t been tied or surpassed in 67 years of trying. Lane did it in a 12-game season, and against just 360 passing attempts. The average number of attempts for the 21 QBs to start all 16 games this season was 550. Had Lane seen that volume of passing that season over 16 games, at the same rate of intercepting the ball, he would have ended the year with 21?as a rookie.

Lane pioneered the art of baiting quarterbacks in coverage into throwing passes towards receivers that looked open, only to break on the ball and pick it off, and would have been perfectly suited to the modern game with all its passing. There is no more fitting player to name an award recognizing outstanding coverage after than Lane himself.
 
kalinecountry said:
In Lane?s first season in the NFL (at the age of 24), he picked off 14 passes in coverage, leading the league and setting a record that hasn?t been tied or surpassed in 67 years of trying. Lane did it in a 12-game season, and against just 360 passing attempts. The average number of attempts for the 21 QBs to start all 16 games this season was 550. Had Lane seen that volume of passing that season over 16 games, at the same rate of intercepting the ball, he would have ended the year with 21?as a rookie.
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Probably my favorite stat in all of football.
 
sggatecl said:
Probably my favorite stat in all of football.
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You had to see Night Train Lane play, I sure remember him, he was a monster, a great cornerback.
This webvideo covers him as the type of player he was.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-netwo...10-Most-Feared-Tacklers-Dick-Night-Train-Lane.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-netwo...02/Top-Ten-Undrafted-Players-Night-Train-Lane.

http://www.nfl.com/halloffame/story...ie-lott-on-hall-of-fame-50th-anniversary-team
Dick Lane, Ronnie Lott on Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Team.

http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story...10-greatest-cornerback-tandems-in-nfl-history
Top 10 greatest cornerback tandems in NFL history.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-netwo...ck-Tandems-Dick-LeBeau-and-the-Hall-of-Famers
Dick LeBeau and two Hall of Famers; Dick "Night Train" Land and Lem Barney.

These three along with the Lions two Hall of Fame Safeties, Jack Christensen and my favorite Lion as a kid Yale Lary.

Lions had some of the greatest Cornerbacks and Safeties all-time.
 
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