Thursday Notes: Matthew Stafford Likely Out Against Arizona
by Sean Yuille on Dec 17, 2009 1:00 PM EST
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Print- It is "not likely" that Matthew Stafford will play against the Cardinals this week. The coaches seem like they really don't want to rush him back, especially with how banged up the rest of the offense is. It's not like Stafford would be returning to an offense simply missing him; Brandon Pettigrew, Kevin Smith, Stephen Peterman are all gone, and Calvin Johnson is banged up as well. The entire offense is hurting, and personally I don't want to see Stafford back until he is 100%. Of course, it sucks that the Lions really don't even have a chance to win any games without him, but hey, if that winds up making it possible for a certain defensive tackle from Nebraska to come to Detroit next year, I don't mind.
- Calvin Johnson, Louis Delmas, and Don Muhlbach all missed practice today. None of them have been ruled out of Sunday's game yet, but none of their situations look promising.
- The Lions gave free tickets for Sunday's game to 400-500 random former season-ticket holders. Even with those tickets being given away, the Lions are still more than 9,000 tickets away from a sellout, meaning the blackout will become official any minute now.
- Brian Witherspoon used to be Sammie Hill's teammate at Stillman.
- In SI's revised 2009 NFL Draft, four players the Lions drafted ended up in the first round, including Louis Delmas and DeAndre Levy.
- The Cardinals signed an extra kicker in case Neil Rackers can't play on Sunday due to a groin injury.
- Roll Bama Roll, SB Nation's Alabama blog, took a look at the 1948 Sugar Bowl, which featured Alabama and Texas as well as former Lions Harry Gilmer and Bobby Layne.
- My thoughts go out to the Cincinnati Bengals, as they are mourning the death of Chris Henry.
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mlive
With longsnapper Don Muhlbach (concussion) not expected to play, the Lions signed snapper Nathan Hodel and released rookie tight end Dan Gronkowski. The Lions also re-signed cornerback Jahi Word-Daniels to the practice squad.
Just Remember matt... what would Daunte do??
good PR front office
remind those 400 – 500 previous ticket holders WHY THEY STOPPPED GOING by giving them a free show to an absolute blowout game….::shakes head::
I guess the Lions are trying out for the UFL
Because the talent starting the game isn’t much different.
This could get ugly, especially since Arizona is gonna be angry from their MNF disaster.
PIZZA?!?
We're gonna have no-one playing with all these injuries.
Like Transplated said, this could get ugly.
2009 = The start of the Lions Golden Age (We hope).
Zack Follett: he will hurt your mind.
All I'm thinking about right now...
…is how do we get Ndamukong Suh? He would make our entire defensive line better just about automatically.
GO LIONS! RESTORE THE ROAR!
That redone draft is stupid
No way would we take Pet a TE if we draft a tackle 1st overall.
Sad to hear about Chris Henry.
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