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It’s probably been a while since you’ve heard the name Bob Quinn, but the former Detroit Lions general manager is back in the news. After the Lions parted ways with Quinn in the middle of the 2020 season, he eventually joined the Cleveland Browns as a senior consultant. The next year, he was promoted to […]
With the 2025 NFL regular season well in the rearview mirror and the Super Bowl the final remaining game until August, analysts are beginning to shift their focus toward the NFL Draft. On Monday, NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah released his first mock draft of the 2026 season, and as we saw with The Athletic’s Dane […]
With 30 of 32 NFL teams now in the offseason, it’s a good time to review the Detroit Lions’ 2025 roster and how they performed, but also to look forward to 2026 and how the team may address each position. We’ll kick off the series with quarterbacks, where the Lions find themselves in a perfectly […]
The NFL is a copycat league, and as the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are the only two remaining teams left in the playoffs, you can already see people trying to figure out how to emulate their success. I always find this to be a particularly amusing game to play, because the difference between […]
Whenever a team makes a change to its coaching staff, the front office will often tap into the new coach’s familiarity with the upcoming free agents they have coached over their careers. This offseason, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes will have a chance to do this with new offensive coordinator Drew Petzing and the […]
The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks have booked their tickets to the Super Bowl. The Detroit Lions, meanwhile, are left wondering what it would take to be in their shoes. After a 9-8 season in which the Lions barely sniffed the playoff picture, Detroit has a lot to envy from these two Super Bowl […]
It’s time to determine the two teams in Super Bowl LX. The 2025-26 NFL playoffs continue on Sunday with the NFC and AFC Championship games. To kick things off, the Denver Broncos will host the New England Patriots in a battle of the AFC’s No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. The headline of the matchup […]
The NFL playoff field is down to four teams, and by the end of the day, we’ll be down to the final two. NFL Conference Championship Weekend kicks off Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. ET with the Denver Broncos hosting the New England Patriots. Both franchises have seemingly revived themselves after their long span of […]
A day after announcing he’s hanging up the pads, now former Detroit Lions offensive lineman Dan Skipper got to work starting a new career in coaching. In a social media post on Thursday, Skipper announced his retirement from the NFL and his plans to switch to coaching. A day later, he was already helping coach […]
It’s no secret that the most popular offensive coordinator candidate for the Detroit Lions job was former Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel. It’s easy to understand, too. For a couple of years, he had one of the most innovative offenses in football, and given his history-making speedsters, All-Pro players, you could only imagine what he […]
Detroit Lions linebacker Jack Campbell has been named the recipient of the 2025 Pro Butkus Award. The award, which is more known for the identical college honors, goes to the top linebacker in the NFL, as voted on by the Butkus Award Selection Committee—a selection of 51 voters from all ranks of football, including NFL […]
Watching NFL Draft projections in January can trigger your vertigo, as analysts scramble to adjust their projections from pre-season expectations to end-of-season results. In the first two installments of this year’s Mock Draft Roundup series, we saw the majority of NFL Draft analysts projecting the Lions to land Miami right tackle Francis Mauigoa. However, with […]
Changes are certainly coming for the Detroit Lions’ offense now that they’ve hired Drew Petzing to be their new offensive coordinator. While coach Dan Campbell is likely to still have his thumb on the scale, and Petzing’s overall philosophies certainly seem to overlap heavily with what Detroit has already had success with, the new coordinator […]
While the playoffs are in full swing, the Detroit Lions have shifted their focus to the offseason. It’s been a tough pill to swallow for many, something owner Sheila Hamp addressed in her end-of-the-year communication to season-ticket holders, but an important offseason lies ahead for a football team in search of recapturing their je ne […]
Detroit Lions offensive tackle Dan Skipper announced on Thursday his retirement from the NFL. In a post on Instagram, Skipper called it a career after playing the game he’s loved for two dozen years. Here’s his message: 24 years of putting on pads and a helmet every fall. This year I’ll trade that out to […]
On Thursday, the NFL announced the finalists for their 2025 NFL Honors, and Detroit Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson is in the running for two end-of-season awards: Defensive Player of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year. The four finalists for Defensive Player of the Year, joining Hutchinson, are Will Anderson Jr. (Texans), Nik […]
Last week, we debuted a new weekly offseason feature for Pride of Detroit: Office Hours! Each week, for a couple of hours, our Pride of Detroit staff will hang out in the comment section and answer as many questions as we can. If you’re wondering what that looks like, you can go back to last […]
While things are pretty quiet in Detroit Lions coaching news after they hired Drew Petzing to be their next offensive coordinator, the rest of the NFC North is still in the midst of this coaching cycle. We’ve already seen the Green Bay Packers lose their well-respected defensive coordinator, and now there is news for the […]
When the PODcast was last live, the news of the Detroit Lions’ hiring of Drew Petzing as their new offensive coordinator broke right in the middle of the show. Admittedly, it left us scrambling to provide as informed of an opinion on the hire, while also trying to gain as much information on a coach […]
The NFL playoff field is down to just four teams. In the AFC, the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos will fight for a spot in the Super Bowl. While in the NFC, it’s between the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams. With no NFC North rival team to root against, Detroit Lions fans no […]
While the Detroit Lions have yet to make the hiring of offensive coordinator Drew Petzing official, one player has already offered his first thoughts on the hire. During his weekly podcast with his brother, Lions receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown provided a little insight into the Petzing hire, what he heard from quarterback Jared Goff, and […]
Three Detroit Lions have been named to Pro Football Writers Association teams for their outstanding performances in 2025. Celebrating its 62nd season, the PFWA is made up of accredited writers who cover the NFL and the 32 clubs daily, and aims to fight for access to NFL personnel to best serve the public. Jack Campbell […]
Without a doubt, the biggest offseason question for the Detroit Lions was how they were going to fill the offensive coordinator position after firing John Morton. With Drew Petzing now in line to become the offensive play-caller, Detroit’s focus must shift. There are a lot of things that still need to be addressed, changed, or […]
It’s common practice when a team hires a new coordinator for that coach to bring in some familiar staff members to help them build their system within their new organization. Even with a team like the Detroit Lions, who have a pretty solidified positional coaching staff, they may be willing to bring in some fresh […]
If you thought the Detroit Lions passed over former Dolphins coach Mike McDonald because he was sure to get a head coaching job, you may want to sit down for this one. On Tuesday night, several reports leaked that McDaniel was closing in on becoming the Los Angeles Chargers’ next offensive coordinator. The deal is […]