The Saints led the NFL in big plays this season, racking up 20 or more yards on 83 occasions. That's an average of more than five per game.
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January 03, 2012
Highlights from Lions coach Jim Schwartz's Monday news conference:
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January 02, 2012
General manager Martin Mayhew and coach Jim Schwartz have done yeoman's work to help a franchise that was 0-16 three seasons ago reach the playoffs for the first time since 1999.
Mayhew has made many productive moves since being promoted to clean up the mess left behind by Matt Millen. One of them was giving Schwartz his first shot to be a head coach.
Schwartz leads the Lions...
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January 02, 2012
Lions coach Jim Schwartz was terse in his postgame news conference Sunday, replying to questions with mostly one-sentence answers -- until he was asked about instant replay.
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January 01, 2012
Lions coach Jim Schwartz didn't hold back Sunday night on 97.1 The Ticket when Jim Brandstatter, the team's radio color commentator, asked him about the team's 45-41 loss to the Packers in Green Bay.
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January 01, 2012
Lions coach Jim Schwartz didn't hold back Sunday night when Jim Brandstatter, the team's radio color commentator, asked him about the team's 45-41 loss to the Packers in Green Bay. Schwartz made it clear he was no mood to be interviewed on 97.1 The Ticket after his defense allowed Packers backup quarterback Matt Flynn to throw for 480 yards and six touchdowns. "What...
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January 02, 2012
From opposite weather extremes to big comebacks, "we've covered a lot," says head coach Jim Schwartz.
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January 01, 2012
Lions coach Jim Schwartz was biting his tongue throughout his three-minute postgame press conference -- he was furious with the play of the team's secondary and he was befuddled by some of the decisions and non-decisions made by the officiating crew.
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January 03, 2012
Lions coach Jim Schwartz keeps dropping clues this week that his team could be the healthiest it has been all season heading into Saturday's playoff matchup against the Saints in New Orleans.
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January 02, 2012
ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Second chances dont exist for the Lions anymore. There's no such thing as building for the future in the playoffs.
The Lions are reaching the end of what's been an exciting and productive season, but it's the nature of postseason play that they dont know when the end will come.
It could be Saturday in New Orleans, where they play the Saints in the...
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January 03, 2012
DETROIT - Maybe one day in the next few weeks coach Jim Schwartz will sit back and marvel at everything the...
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January 01, 2012
If Lions coach Jim Schwartz thought he was angry after his defense gave up 550 yards to the Packers, then he could end up uncontrollably irate after Saturday's playoff matchup against the Saints in New Orleans.
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January 03, 2012
When I took this position as the Detroit Lions correspondent here at isportsweb, I’d be lying if I said I expected to still be writing in week 18. The playoffs have been something Lion fans constantly talk about, but only the foolish ones actually believed the team had a chance at going to the postseason. 2011 will forever be remembered by Lion fans as the year our long wait...
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January 03, 2012
Spags is my #1 choice for the next Lions head coach--and he ought to be yours, too. That was the closing line of my fifth post ever, the "To Whom it May Concern" for Steve Spagnuolo. I tagged him “Candidate 1A,” thanks to his impressive track record of coaching up defensive backs and harnessing pass-rushing talent. He also had experience in player personnel...
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January 02, 2012
The most-anticipated game on next year's schedule might be a road trip to San Francisco, where Jim Schwartz and Jim Harbaugh will see if they can finally their handshake down.
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January 05, 2012
After more than a decade of "rebuilding" -- jumpstarted by the work done by Jim Schwartz and Martin Mayhew after the disastrous Matt Millen era -- the Lions are finally back in the playoffs. Don't expect this pugnacious team to celebrate right away, though. These Lions are hungry for a win. We talked to Al Beaton of The Wayne Fontes Experience, our Detroit Lions blog...
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