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- Ndamukong Suh met new Detroit Lions head coach Jim Caldwell on Wednesday. Later, after Caldwell held his introductory press conference, Lions president Tom Lewand talked about Suh's contract, which will make him a free agent after next season.
Aside from making sure he remains in Detroit, the Lions need to get Suh an extension to free up some cap space considering he's got a $22.4 million cap hit for 2014.Tom Lewand said they haven't started extension talks w/Suh but would like to keep him here and he indicated Suh said he would like to stay
— Michael Rothstein (@mikerothstein) January 15, 2014
- Before coming to Detroit, new Lions defensive coordinator Teryl Austin coached for three different NFL teams (Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens), and he went to the Super Bowl with all of them. Hopefully that's a sign of things to come with him joining the Lions.
- The Lions really, really struggled with drops in 2013.
.@ZacGoldberg Matthew Stafford's receivers dropped 46 passes this season, the most of any QB. Brady & Manning were 2nd (34) and 3rd (29)
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 16, 2014
- Jim Caldwell intends to get to know the Lions' roster over the course of the next month or so.
- Larry Warford, Ziggy Ansah and Sam Martin all made the PFWA All-Rookie team.
- After previously putting together a word cloud based on Caldwell's first press conference as Lions head coach, I decided to do the same for Jim Schwartz's introductory presser from back in 2009. Check it out:
Because I was curious, here's a word cloud for Jim Schwartz's introductory press conference from 2009: pic.twitter.com/WjFMglJFyj
— Pride Of Detroit (@PrideOfDetroit) January 16, 2014
- Reggie Bush recently ended up on TMZ -- for a good reason, though.
- Daniel Jeremiah has released his top 50 rankings for the 2014 NFL Draft. (Sammy Watkins is No. 2 overall, by the way.)
- Rotoworld took an extremely interesting look at Watkins, Mike Evans, Kelvin Benjamin and Marqise Lee.
