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[foxhopper]

Damn Holloween candy...Seriously, no telling what goes into most of the food we are eating.

[whatever_gong82]

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I like Jamo, but I hope that they put Amon-Ra on him as a mentor. Heck, if we can pay Calvin Johnson or Herman Moore under the table to mentor him so that he'll stop with his annoying brain cramps that he seems to do at least once a year.

[Tom]

I doubt any mentoring would help.

[froot loops]

He's goofy enough that I kind of believe his statement. We aren't talking about Lance Armstrong here.

[chemiclord]

Do I believe that Jamo is someone who thought, "Adderall is Adderall," and went with a generic option on his prescription that wasn't authorized by the NFL because it contained an additive that could be used as a masking agent? Yeah.

If that's what actually happened.

[-Deborah-]

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[El Axe]

Honolulu flu is a thing

Not only do the Lions beat up on the opponent, wearing them out physically and mentally, but we are the circled team on their schedule. They gear up emotionally for the game and they have the natural emotional letdown the following week.

Basically, the Lions are playing playoff football every week. Should help for the actual playoffs.

[Marko69]

Honolulu flu is a thing

Not only do the Lions beat up on the opponent, wearing them out physically and mentally, but we are the circled team on their schedule. They gear up emotionally for the game and they have the natural emotional letdown the following week.

Basically, the Lions are playing playoff football every week. Should help for the actual playoffs.

Changed days. The Lions were always circled on other teams’ schedules, …… scheduled for the “W”

[CGVT]

Honolulu flu is a thing

Not only do the Lions beat up on the opponent, wearing them out physically and mentally, but we are the circled team on their schedule. They gear up emotionally for the game and they have the natural emotional letdown the following week.

Basically, the Lions are playing playoff football every week. Should help for the actual playoffs.

Yep. The only drawback to the Lions being so physical is that the Lions get beat up too. So far, Holmes and Campbell have pulled all the right strings to have solid depth that is ready to play.

[whatever_gong82]

Detroit Lions DB coach Deshea Townsend 'a mama's boy, hands down' 25 years after her death

Paywall Freep article.

Dave Birkett
Detroit Free Press


It’s still one of the biggest regrets of his life.

Deshea Townsend was a couple games into his second season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, fighting for a starting spot on a team that was a few years away from competing in the Super Bowl.

The Steelers lost to the Seahawks after a 2-0 start, and a day later Townsend got a call from his brothers saying his mom was in the hospital with breast cancer and not doing well.

Townsend didn’t know what to think at the time.

Lena Mae Townsend was the rock of the family, a worker at a Fruit of the Loom plant near Batesville, Mississippi, who became a stay-at-home mom after the plant closed. She raised six kids with her husband, Willie, taught them discipline, gave them their work ethic and made the best fried-egg sandwich in town.


She wasn’t sick, at least not to Townsend's knowledge, and she was a fighter, a 5-foot-3 ball of fire who played defense on her high school basketball team, back when players couldn’t cross halfcourt in the sport.

He decided to stay in Pittsburgh and pray his mom would be OK like always.

A day later, on Sept. 28, 1999, she was gone.

“That's the thing of it, you just don't realize how severe it is,” Townsend told the Free Press this week. “I wish I could have just jumped on a plane and flew down and if I could do it over, I would have. But she's with me every day and every time I get opportunity, especially with this, just the awareness part to let people know there are resources out there. If you just go get it checked out, they can help you survive it.”


In the 25 years since Lena Mae passed, Townsend, the Detroit Lions’ first-year defensive backs coach, has made it part of his mission to fight cancer and encourage people from all walks of life to go for annual checkups.

His mother never saw a doctor until it was too late, he said.

“Annual checkups are so important,” Townsend said. “A lot of times things can be prevented if you know about it and I think that's just the stigma of don't wait till you're sick to go to the doctor. Just make sure you get your checkups when you can beforehand.”


Townsend started his own foundation, the Pay It Forward Foundation, the offseason after his mother’s death and for 14 years held youth football camps in Mississippi and Pittsburgh. The foundation offered ACT and SAT prep classes to help students prepare for college and hosted a health fair in conjunction with the camps that screened kids and adults for a variety of ailments, such as high blood pressure, glaucoma and diabetes.


Townsend stopped hosting the camps when he took a college coaching job at Mississippi State in 2013 — they were a violation of NCAA rules — and now helps his cousin, Shirlette Judon, who chairs the cancer support group, Wear It Well, in Mississippi and helps with an annual fundraiser that this year raised around $30,000 for cancer awareness.

The Lions host the Tennessee Titans in their only October home game today.


The NFL held its Crucial Catch games in partnership with the American Cancer Society in Weeks 4-6, but October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Townsend said his mother will be on his mind against the Titans.

“I was a mama's boy, hands down,” he said. “She was most definitely the one, before we could go outside and play the house had to be clean, like all of the chores and just the responsibilities you learned as a young man, she made sure we took care of it. And those type of things still carry on now of the importance of taking care of what you have, being appreciative of what you have, loving one another. Those are things that are truly important and building-block foundational points of my life.”


With the Lions, Townsend has helped turn a secondary that for years was the weak link of the defense into one of the top playmaking units in the NFL.

Brian Branch and Kerby Joseph are having Pro Bowl-caliber seasons at safety; Terrion Arnold, Carlton DavisIII and Amik Robertson provide physicality at cornerback; and the Lions are tied for fifth in the NFL with eight interceptions.

“He’s a real person and that’s what kind of person you want in your life,” Robertson said. “That’s what kind of coach you want. He’s a leader in our room.”

The Titans (1-5) rank near the bottom of the NFL in most offensive categories and are last in passing offense, but Lions coach Dan Campbell warned his team not to get caught up in records and lose sight of its goal to get homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.

The Lions (5-1) are the only remaining one-win team in the NFC, thanks to the Minnesota Vikings' loss on Thursday night.

“We’ve got our own standards and it’s about us and how we handle our business,” Campbell said. “We’ve got to make our corrections from last week and we’ve got to improve this week, and that’s what it is.”


That’s Townsend’s message, too, as October comes to close: Don’t take things for granted when it comes to your health.

“Just the awareness part that it can be beat if you do get checked out,” he said. “I think that's the one thing that I learned from sharing with others and doing the camps. It's just the opportunity to get screened that so many of us miss out on. And if we do, do it, it can be big.”


Contact him at dbirkett@freepress.com. Follow him on X and Instagram at @davebirkett.

[whatever_gong82]

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[whatever_gong82]

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Make that now 0-6 with the Dallas loss to the 49ers last night, despite being on a Bye the week after getting the 47-9 beat down from the Detroit Lions.

[Iron Lion]

Two thoughts on Jamo:

1. He shows up on big stages and regularly disappears in regular games. And you know what, that's ok. He's our dagger we pull out of our boot when it's a real fight against a real team.

2. He's not taking a discount, and Brad is not breaking the bank for him. The player-friendly culture makes me think they won't tag him against his will, or possibly not even 5th-year option against his will. But I see an extension as unlikely.

[Mainevent]

His opinion on the fifth year option doesn’t really matter. He’d be happy to have it, as it would jump his salary to like $15-16M in that 5th year.

[froot loops]

To soon to tell on Williams. With the suspensions and injuries, there is not a lot to go on. But if he picks up where he left off in two weeks and continues that progression, they are not letting him go easily. Part of the issue with the suspensions is we don't have the information on the second suspension and the first suspension was over aggressive and the NFL has since backed off of the harshness of the suspension.


As a player he is the perfect complement to St. Brown. With Williams as the Y and St. Brown as the Z you basically make the defense pick their poison especially if you are doing things like levels concepts. If you are scared, he is going to beat you over the top, St. Brown gets more space and vice versa. Plus he blocks, he is not a wallflower when it comes to that