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- After practicing in a severely limited capacity just one time last week, Eric Ebron is back on the sidelines at practice and he isn’t happy about it. He met with the media after Monday’s practice and shared his feeling about being injured:
‘‘It’s kind of rough. That hurt the hell out of me. Just not being there and watching all these preseason games. It sucks.’’
And from the Detroit Free Press, simply:
‘‘I need to get my ass out there on that field.’’
- The Detroit Lions released episode four of Inside the Den: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions and it gives a pretty neat look into Haloti Ngata’s return to Baltimore.
- SideLion Report used an interesting methodology to predict the Lions’ 2016 record.
- Once again, a solid job done by the Detroit Lions social media department:
Joining @dpshow momentarily to explain why Calvin Johnson is not a Hall of Famer. cc: @MichaelDavSmith.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) August 30, 2016
.@ProFootballTalk @dpshow @MichaelDavSmith pic.twitter.com/RLi4XL2PoE
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) August 30, 2016
- Jace Billingsley gets no respect (h/t to Lions Reddit for finding this initially):
Hey @freepsports, you should probably give our man Jace Billingsley the credit he deserves: https://t.co/OHt3b2aXcf pic.twitter.com/VJMQrNvAoT
— Pride Of Detroit (@PrideOfDetroit) August 30, 2016
- Kyle Meinke of MLive.com believes Bob Quinn showed no mercy in his first round of cuts.
- Former Lions defensive Sammie Lee Hill is facing a suspension:
FA DT Sammie Lee Hill is suspended 4 games for violating @NFL drug policy, source said, for missing a drug test, not a positive sample
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) August 30, 2016