DetroitLions.com has the full wild card weekend schedule.
SATURDAY4:30 PM — Cincinnati at Houston (NBC)8 PM — Detroit at New Orleans (NBC)SUNDAY1 PM — Atlanta at NYG/DAL winner (FOX)4:30 PM — Pittsburgh at Denver (CBS)'
That's just great. The Lions are in the playoffs, but we can expect a lecture of some sort from Bob Costas' bully pulpit if they commit a personal foul.
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January 01, 2012
The Detroit Lions had a great 2011. They finished the season with a 10-6 record and made the playoffs for the first time since 1999.
Detroit wont, however, remember the first day of 2012 very fondly. The Lions lost to the Packers 45-41 on Sunday, but had a couple of tough calls go against them that clearly could have made a difference in the outcome.
The most damaging was a play...
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January 03, 2012
Maybe one day in the next few weeks coach Jim Schwartz will sit back and marvel at everything the Lions have accomplished this year.
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January 01, 2012
Lions coach Jim Schwartz faces the challenge of getting his team turned in the right direction.
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January 01, 2012
A lot of the good things the Lions did in 2011 to manufacture a renaissance season from the rubble of the worst decade in franchise history were on display on the first day of 2012.
Unfortunately for the Lions, so were some of the bad things.
They left Lambeau Field in Green Bay in a rebuilding mode after Sundays 45-41 loss to the Packers in the final game of the regular season...
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January 01, 2012
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Packers tight end Jermichael Finley believes that Sunday's 45-41 win over Lions without Aaron Rodgers and other key starters playing will send Detroit into the playoffs "with a little limp." But Finley almost left the game with more than a little limp.
A play by Lions defensive end Cliff Avril had Finley questioning the motivations of Detroit'...
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January 03, 2012
The Lions and Saints will put two of the NFL's highest-scoring offenses on the field in Saturday's wild-card playoff game in New Orleans. But with everything riding on one game, teams can be more conservative in the playoffs. Lions coach Jim Schwartz wouldn't go so far as to say playoff teams are conservative, but he also didn't say he expected any shoot-outs.
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January 02, 2012
Calvin Johnson Receiving yards Sunday, giving him 1,681 for the season, five shy of Herman Moore's 1995 team record. But he is the first Lions receiver with two 200-yard days and extended his team record with his 16th TD catch. Ndamukong Suh
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January 02, 2012
The Lions and Saints will meet for the second time this season at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 7.
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January 02, 2012
116 Receiving yards by Brandon Pettigrew, his second time over 100. 280 Passing yards by Green Bay's Matt Flynn -- in the first half, with three touchdowns. 27 Passing first downs by the Lions, breaking their 2001 team record of 22.
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January 02, 2012
Their first game, a 31-17 victory by the Saints, featured explosive QBs (Drew Brees threw for 342 yards while Matthew Stafford had 408) and tempers (Detroit was penalized 11 times).
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http://waynefontes.com/2012-articles/...
