Detroit Lions Wrap Up This Week's Player-Organized Workouts

by Sean Yuille on Jun 10, 2011 2:32 PM EDT in Detroit Lions News

The final session of this week's player-organized workouts for Detroit Lions players took place on Friday morning. Four total workouts were held this week, and below is a rundown of news from the workouts on Thursday and Friday.

Thursday's workout had approximately 33 players in attendance, including Titus Young and Mikel Leshoure, who weren't at Wednesday's session.
Ndamukong Suh, as reported earlier, was at Friday's workout.
After the Lions finished their workouts in May, they already had another set of them scheduled for June (the ones that were held this week). No additional workouts are planned in the future right now, but if the NFL lockout continues I would imagine something will be put together. Hopefully the lockout does end sometime soon and there is no more need for player-organized workouts, though.
Kyle Vanden Bosch, who helped organize the workouts, said he "couldn't be happier with where the players are at right now."
Drew Stanton called the workouts "beneficial" because it helps to have teammates pushing you.
Matthew Stafford said it's on him to teach Titus Young and Mikel Leshoure as much as he can since they are "potentially very valuable parts of (the team)."
There was apparently a tug of war competition on Friday and the team of Matthew Stafford, Drew Stanton, Jeff Backus, Mikel Leshoure, Nathan Vasher and Zack Robinson was "dominating."

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hmmm

having played a fair amount of tug-o-war in my day, I’ve found that that usually kills my shoulders. I don’t know if I should be happy that Stafford made it through without getting hurt, or pissed off that he was dumb enough to do it in the first place.

by sgdbw90 on Jun 10, 2011 4:04 PM EDT reply actions

So sick of sites like Mlive ripping apart players for NO news

Because of the Lockout. Suh being ripped apart for not being at workouts. Burleson for a silly comment that no fan took offense too. Thank you Sean for keeping everything in perspective. Atleast someone is reporting the REAL news.

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by The Profiler on Jun 10, 2011 4:45 PM EDT reply actions

+1

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by JCruize on Jun 10, 2011 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions

PTI has an item called SUH/16-0

This should be interesting………..

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by Elfuego51 on Jun 10, 2011 5:44 PM EDT reply actions

It's his comments in the Terry Foster article

All he said is that they should be shooting for 16-0. Same thing he said on NFLN months ago.

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by Sean Yuille on Jun 10, 2011 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions

There was apparently a tug of war competition on Friday and the team of Matthew Stafford, Drew Stanton, Jeff Backus, Mikel Leshoure, Nathan Vasher and Zack Robinson was “dominating.”

Hopefully they weren’t beating the team of Sammie Hill, Corey Williams, Ndamukong Suh, Stephen Peterman, Gosder Cherilus and Kyle Vanden Bosch.

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by n4ry4 on Jun 10, 2011 5:47 PM EDT reply actions

No I think it was a team of 5 Dom's.

by JCruize on Jun 10, 2011 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm guessing Hanson, Rayner, Harris and Logan.

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by Elfuego51 on Jun 10, 2011 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions

i'm a little bothered

by the idea of staff’s shoulder being in a tug-of-war contest, seems ill advised at best

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by yooperlionfan on Jun 10, 2011 6:17 PM EDT reply actions

having been through total should reconstruction surgery

I can tell you. It is far easier to hurt yourself while pushing than pulling with the shoulder. At least in my experiences.

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