Tracking former Lions

[dwt1]

Does it matter much - it's no longer a running game. Maybe 2015 was an anomaly but there was just 7 1000 yard rushers, only two above 1100 yards (well three if you count Gurley with 1106)

[Topweasel]

Does it matter much - it's no longer a running game. Maybe 2015 was an anomaly but there was just 7 1000 yard rushers, only two above 1100 yards (well three if you count Gurley with 1106)

Didn't he miss like a quarter or half a season? If so I would count it. I mean that's a huge yards per game, so full on feature RB territory.

[Cody_Russell]

Does it matter much - it's no longer a running game. Maybe 2015 was an anomaly but there was just 7 1000 yard rushers, only two above 1100 yards (well three if you count Gurley with 1106)

That's a good point because of how much passing the ball has become the NFL.

Aaron Brown was another RB I forgot to mention. Anyone remember him?
I liked that RB at a moment ...

[Fraquar]

Does it matter much - it's no longer a running game. Maybe 2015 was an anomaly but there was just 7 1000 yard rushers, only two above 1100 yards (well three if you count Gurley with 1106)

Your chances of consistently making the playoffs year in year out are pretty much nil if you can't run the ball at least to league average totals. If you expect to, you better have a HOF QB calling the shots on offense. Your best hope if you don't is that you have a Cinderella type season (ala G-men in 2011), because the next year you are unlikely to return to the playoffs.

Of the 12 teams that make the playoffs every year, you will be hard pressed to find 2 in the bottom 1/3rd of the league in rushing. You still have to keep teams honest in this league - even with all the pass happy rule changes.

[Malto Marko]

Someone has figured out how not only to make the playoffs, but be consistantly in the Conference Championship game, and more importantly, how to seal the deal.

No one can say NE has not been dominate.

Everyone can question how much do you want to cheat to do it.

[Topweasel]

Someone has figured out how not only to make the playoffs, but be consistantly in the Conference Championship game, and more importantly, how to seal the deal.

No one can say NE has not been dominate.

Everyone can question how much do you want to cheat to do it.

If it gets us even 10% of the success we should cheat to a level that makes BB look like a saint.

[dpatnod]

Report: Ex-Lion Titus Young arrested again for assault

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2016/02/05/detroit-lions-titus-young-arrested/79896982/

[-Deborah-]

Report: Ex-Lion Titus Young arrested again for assault

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/nf...sted/79896982/

He'll probably be one of the first to use the CTE defense - and it's probably true. Poor guy has lost his shit.

[dpatnod]

You are right on all three points.

[dwt1]

He'll probably be one of the first to use the CTE defense - and it's probably true. Poor guy has lost his shit.

Not sure he ever had his shit

[Malto Marko]

Hilarious!

Barry thinks it would be devastating if CJ retires.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2016/02/06/sanders-calvin-retirement-devastating/79958128/

[Sharkbait]

Hilarious!

Barry thinks it would be devastating if CJ retires.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/spo...ting/79958128/

Hello Kettle, you are black.

[bimmer84]

Oh, the irony.

[ghandi]

Lol another story had Reggie Bush thinking it was justice that Mayhew got fired after cutting him......Like that was the reason for the Lions demise

[FVD]

Justin Durant was released by the Falcons today.