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Getty Images Week 10 of the 2019 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the 49ers and it continues with 11 more games on Sunday, which means that the 22 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images Matt Patricia learned one thing from Bill Belichick: How to talk up an opponent. Patricia, the Lions head coach and former Belichick assistant, is preparing to play the Bears and their struggling quarterback, Mitchell Trubisky, on Sunday. And Patricia wouldn’t bite when asked...

Getty Images Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford has started 136 straight games, so it is going to take something particularly serious to knock him out of the lineup. That injury has not cropped up this week. Stafford was listed as a limited participant in practice on Wednesday’s injury report...

Getty Images Lions wide receivers Marvin Jones and Kenny Golladay were having their way with the Raiders’ secondary on Sunday, with both of them topping 100 receiving yards and catching a touchdown pass. So it was surprising, when the Lions’ final pass fell incomplete on their last play of the...

Getty Images The Lions listed quarterback Matthew Stafford as limited in Wednesday’s practice. Stafford has hip and back issues on the injury report. The Lions practiced without offensive guard Joe Dahl (ankle), defensive lineman Da'shawn Hand (ankle), punter Sam Martin (abdomen) and safety...

Getty Images In his postgame comments Sunday, Darius Slay questioned whether the Lions were “putting the pieces to the puzzle in the wrong spot” defensively. Two days later, after a conversation with the Lions cornerback, coach Matt Patricia said the two have a “great relationship” and...

Getty Images The good news for the Lions is that quarterback Matthew Stafford is having perhaps the best season of his career. The bad news is that the Lions’ defense is putting him in a position where he has to throw the ball, a lot. That’s why, despite the offseason talk that new Lions...

Getty Images The Lions rank 31st in the NFL in scoring defense, 30th against the pass, 27th in points allowed and 27th against the run. Defense is Matt Patricia’s specialty. The Patriots won two Super Bowls with Patricia as defensive coordinator. The Lions head coach, though, said he has no...

Getty Images In a back-and-forth battle that went down to the final minute, the Raiders earned a hard-fought home win over the Lions. Oakland’s 31-24 win was sealed when Matthew Stafford threw an incomplete pass into the end zone on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line with three seconds left...

Getty Images The Lions announced Saturday that they placed running back Tra Carson on injured reserve. He injured his hamstring in Thursday’s practice. Carson started last week and had 12 carries for 34 yards. The Lions promoted Paul Perkins from the practice squad. Perkins played last week...

Getty Images Week Nine of the 2019 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the 49ers and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images The Seahawks traded for safety Quandre Diggs 10 days ago. They have yet to see him on the field, and he isn’t likely to make his debut this week. The Seahawks list Diggs as doubtful for Sunday. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Diggs’ hamstring injury is worse than what the team...

Getty Images The Lions are clearly looking for running back depth, and continue to beat the bushes. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Lions are working out Jay Ajayi today. Ajayi hasn’t played since tearing his ACL last October, when he was with the Eagles. He’s made the workout rounds...

Getty Images When the Lions play in Oakland on Sunday, it could be difficult for quarterback Matthew Stafford to be heard. Not because it’s excessively loud at the soon-to-be-former Raiders stadium, but because Stafford’s voice has gone hoarse. “I think it’ll be fine by Sunday,” Stafford said...

Getty Images Michael Jackson once recorded for Motown and now Michael Jackson will be playing for Motown’s football team. No, the King of Pop has not been resurrected as a professional football player. It’s a different Michael Jackson who signed with the Lions on Tuesday. This Jackson is a...

Getty Images The Falcons are struggling this year, in part, because some of their top players aren’t performing up to expectations. That doesn’t mean they want to get rid of them. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, the Lions called the Falcons to see if running back Devonta Freeman was...

Getty Images Out of one side of his mouth, Darius Slay said he didn’t care whether the Lions traded him or not. Out of the other, the cornerback said he wants Detroit to be home for “as long as the Lions want me.” The bottom line: Slay understands the NFL is a business. He had no control over...

Trent Williams stayed put. Jamal Adams stayed put. Chris Harris stayed put. Le'Veon Bell stayed put. Janoris Jenkins stayed put. A.J. Green stayed put. Patrick Peterson stayed put. O.J. Howard stayed put. Everyone, in fact, except Aqib Talib stayed put Tuesday. The NFL’s trade deadline closed...

Getty Images The Raiders will sign center Erik Magnuson off the Bills’ practice squad. That was a sign they expect Rodney Hudson to miss some time. But Ian Rapoport of the NFL reports that the Raiders will not place their starting center on injured reserve. That means they expect him to return...

Getty Images The Lions defense scored the first points of Sunday’s win over the Giants when linebacker Devon Kennard scooped up a backwards pass by Daniel Jones and returned it for a touchdown. Jones was under pressure and tried to flip the ball to running back Saquon Barkley, but Barkley just...