Lions Notes: Landon Johnson To IR; Paul Pratt Signed Off Practice Squad
by Sean Yuille on Dec 30, 2010 11:04 PM EST
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Print- The Lions have placed linebacker Landon Johnson on injured reserve. Taking his spot on the roster is cornerback Paul Pratt, who was signed off the practice squad.
- Calvin Johnson missed practice on Thursday. Chris Houston was also out for the second straight day.
- Most unsurprising news of the week: Shaun Hill will start at quarterback for the Lions.
- Brett Favre reportedly failed another concussion test on Wednesday. The only way he can play on Sunday if is he passes a series of concussion tests before then, so right now it's unlikely we'll see No. 4 again in the NFL.
- Ndamukong Suh doesn't remind Gunther Cunningham of anyone because he already is in a league of his own. Cunningham said "there's no comparison" to Suh.
- Cunningham also said that he laughed when he saw which defensive tackles made the Pro Bowl. Why? Because he believes Corey Williams should be a Pro-Bowler.
I'll play with our two guys any day over any of those guys. I think Corey Williams should've been in the Pro Bowl, I really do.''
Cunningham had many great things to say about Williams' play on the field and his leadership off it. - Two more interesting things from Cunningham: He said that secondary coach Tim Walton is the best secondary coach he's ever seen other than Marty Schottenheimer, and he said this when asked about making halftime adjustments last week against Miami:
"One of the coaches gave me a bunch of drawings for halftime to go over and make the adjustments. I threw 'em in the corner and said 'This isn't about X's and O's right now.' I challenged all the guys for the second half. I told them we could win this game if everybody stays the course and plays football and doesn't worry about anything else - the wind or their Wildcat or anything else. And it worked.
Gotta love Gunther. - Via Alfie at Big Cat Country, all three of Jacksonville's Pro-Bowlers this season and three of their five Pro Bowl alternates were "Shack Harris products." Harris is a personnel executive for the Lions currently and used to be the vice president of player personnel for the Jaguars. (Via TLIW)
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I hope Calvin can go we really need him sunday
Well Wayne-O here is your chance to sell POD on “The Pratt” one last time.
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win. - Mike Singletary
I need to go back to the PODCAST predictions
and put Pratt down for a pick 6 ,forced fumble, and a special teams bone jarring hit,
I thought being lazy was a bad thing, So I gave up thinking.
by Wayne Fontes on Dec 30, 2010 11:41 PM EST up reply actions
I'll back Pratt for 2011
If you back the Phonz!
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win. - Mike Singletary
by The Profiler on Dec 31, 2010 12:12 AM EST up reply actions
Yes the cigar fund can finance Phonz, Pratt, and a player to be named later.
I thought being lazy was a bad thing, So I gave up thinking.
by Wayne Fontes on Dec 31, 2010 12:14 AM EST up reply actions
I think we in buisness
I like the sound of that
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win. - Mike Singletary
by The Profiler on Dec 31, 2010 12:20 AM EST up reply actions
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win. - Mike Singletary
by The Profiler on Dec 31, 2010 12:34 AM EST up reply actions
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I thought being lazy was a bad thing, So I gave up thinking.
by Wayne Fontes on Dec 31, 2010 12:40 AM EST up reply actions
A cause we can belive in
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win. - Mike Singletary
by The Profiler on Dec 31, 2010 12:41 AM EST up reply actions
I busted out my old Tecmo Bowl game....
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr
by JCruize on Dec 30, 2010 11:12 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
haha
awesome
Cannot play with them. Cannot win with them. Cannot coach with them. Can't do it. I want winners. I want people that want to win. - Mike Singletary
by The Profiler on Dec 30, 2010 11:17 PM EST up reply actions
Oh man I play that all the time!
Have you played the update? Some guy updated the rom with current players.
Your first comment on this site. And that is it???? - JCruize
My Girlfriend bought tickets to this game to surprise me today!
7th row 40 yard line! I’ve never been to a lions game I’m psyched.
Look for me on T.V. I will be wearing a blue lions sweatshirt lol.
Your first comment on this site. And that is it???? - JCruize
I think I wanna marry your girlfriend
I thought being lazy was a bad thing, So I gave up thinking.
by Wayne Fontes on Dec 30, 2010 11:42 PM EST up reply actions
i will be wearing a blue lions sweatshirt lol
o ok
"things not to talk about with people RELIGION,POLITICS,k. smith,FINANCES"
sandvet Sep 2010
This kind of Blue Sweatshirt...
Just don’t wear the Lions sweater this Retard has on…
WE WILL ALL BE LOOKING FOR YOU ON TV BRO
Ty Cobb is the greatest baseball player of all time:
1911 AL MVP
.367 career batting average (highest ever)
54 career steals of home (most all time)
Won 12 batting titles, including 9 in a row from 1907 to 1915.
Third all time in stolen bases with 892.
Second in runs scored with 2,245.
Second in career hits with 4,191.
Batted under .320 only once in his career.
Batted over .400 three times.
nice Cosby sweater Millen
You cretin.
Fire CJ and trade Schwartz lol
by spicymchaggis on Dec 12, 2010 3:07 PM PST up reply Star Unrec? 1
by Skylar on Jan 1, 2011 9:44 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
You oughta marry that girl, brother
Tis a princely gift
by YpsilantiJeff on Dec 31, 2010 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
It seems like the secondary will not change too much
if signing Phillips and now Pratt is an indication of intentions for this offseason, it looks like we’ll have a good number of our young DBs competing for spots. Of course we know Gun is big on Aaron Berry as well. It’d be great if two of those three turn into quality depth (or even better if Berry can beat a good CB for the Nickel or Phillips beats Speivey…)
RA
Definately will be great competition in the off-season
especially if we draft a CB also.
Its almost the off season, Lets the madness begin!!
I want to see Brett Favre get one last Pounding in Detroit before its over!!!
This broke down old man has torched us throughout the years.
I want him to play one more game. I want to see him get abused by the defense. I want to see Suh ragdoll him like he did to Colt McCoy. I want his NFL career to end in defeat in Detroit. This would make my season.
Favre record Vs The Detroit Lions: 23-9
He is 13-3 against the Lions this decade
He has NEVER lost a home game to them
He has thrown for 8,753 yards against the Lions in his career, the most against any other opponent.
In his past four meeting against the Lions he is 4-0 and has completed 83-of-108 passes (76.9 pct.) for 979 yards with eight touchdowns and no interceptions.
Ty Cobb is the greatest baseball player of all time:
1911 AL MVP
.367 career batting average (highest ever)
54 career steals of home (most all time)
Won 12 batting titles, including 9 in a row from 1907 to 1915.
Third all time in stolen bases with 892.
Second in runs scored with 2,245.
Second in career hits with 4,191.
Batted under .320 only once in his career.
Batted over .400 three times.
I can't even imagine trying to count
how many times last year it seemed like the Lions had a sure sack, either by Hunter, White or Avril, and every time the QB was able to nonchalantly step up and make an easy throw. Now, because of our two new DT’s and the improved play of SLH, QB’s have no chance. I would rather have Corey over any of the other NFC Pro-Bowl DT’s.
If you can't spell practise write, then dont repond!
Agreed. Williams worked out better than I expected.
He’s a main cog in the gearbox of that D-Line. Really happy with him.
Fire CJ and trade Schwartz lol
by spicymchaggis on Dec 12, 2010 3:07 PM PST up reply Star Unrec? 1
by Skylar on Dec 31, 2010 10:44 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Hmmm
So Gunther got mad at people trying to adjust their game plan? I don’t think I like that way of thinking.
I like
that he had confidence in his game plan, and told the players to execute better, and they did.
If you can't spell practise write, then dont repond!
Well, we usually play well the first half and fall apart down the stretch
to me, that says the other team adjusted and we didnt
it about the Miami game. And since the Lions out scored the 'Phins 24-10
in the second half. Gun was right. They did not need to make second half adjustments in that game. They needed to
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr
Everyone looks great when we win
I was thinking more of the first 3/4 of the season. Like that New England game. Or the Jets who couldn’t move in the first half and couldn’t be stopped in the second.
Look, I am happy with Gunther. I always kind of liked him even when he was at KC. It is just that one of my complaints this year is that we always seem to be better in the first half than the second. The TV guys talk about it in terms of the Lions “running out of gas”, but I always thought it might be a lack of adjustment. Hearing Gunther make that comment makes me think there might be more to the latter than the former.
Well two things
First, since the person that reported this. Thought it was news worthy enough to make a comment on it. I am guessing that it was something out of the ordinary for Gun to do. To ignore any advice from the defensive coaching staff.
Secondly, This is week 16. If Gun and the Lions do not make halftime adjustments. It seem reasonsable to assume that the asistants would stop make suggestions.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr
That's a good point,
also, I don’t think his (Gunny’s) comment meant that they ignore making adjustments, since last week or sometime earlier, I think, Schwartz said they make constant adjustments throughout an entire game.
Gunny’s an awesome crazy asshole, I think everyone agrees on that. Not sure what kind of adjustments we could’ve made against the Pats, and Jets, when Houston got hurt. Just two of those games where people would’ve said that we crumbled late. I think there were actually a lot of games where we fell behind and had to climb our way back into it.
If you can't spell practise write, then dont repond!
That is a good point
Well done with your detective work.
Of course, since we did lose in the second half a lot… Now I am mad they kept adjusting their gameplan! Why fix it if it aint broke!
Depends on the situation
The fins werent doing anything we didnt understand, we just werent executing in the 1st half. No need to panic, just go out and play solid football. Which they did.
by YpsilantiJeff on Dec 31, 2010 11:59 AM EST up reply actions
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