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The Detroit Lions are making a splash hiring, bringing in former New York Giants offensive coordinator and interim head coach Mike Kafka in a “high-ranking offensive staff role,” as first reported by NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero and confirmed by other league sources.
Kafka was a sought-after coaching candidate this offseason. Not only did he interview with the Lions for their offensive coordinator position before they eventually hired Drew Petzing, but he also interviewed for the Giants head coaching position and the Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator position.
Kafka was on a short list of candidates that we profiled for the position,...
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The Detroit Lions have successfully reached a new contractual agreement with safeties coach Jim O’Neil, securing his return to Allen Park for another season.
O’Neil had previously interviewed for the New York Jets’ defensive coordinator position, as Jets head coach Aaron Glenn was exploring candidates for the vacancy after parting ways with Steve Wilks earlier in the offseason. Glenn was, of course, the Lions’ defensive coordinator from 2021-24, and O’Neil worked directly under Glenn during the 2024 season. Additionally, O’Neill got his start in the NFL with the Jets organization, acting as their defensive quality control coach in 2009 and...
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Jared Goff will take part in the 2026 NFL Pro Bowl games.
The team announced on Monday that he has been added to the All-Star Game, replacing Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold, who will be playing in Super Bowl 60 in two weeks.
Goff was the primary alternate for the NFC squad, finishing behind Darnold, Matthew Stafford, and Dak Prescott. Despite finishing below those three, he was above everyone but Stafford in most statistical categories. Take a look:
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One of the Detroit Lions’ most-valued assistant coaches will have an opportunity to get a promotion elsewhere. As first reported by Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Lions assistant head coach/wide receivers coach Scottie Montgomery has been requested to interview for the Baltimore Ravens’ offensive coordinator job.
Montgomery first joined the Lions in 2023 as the team’s running backs/assistant head coach. There, he oversaw Jahmyr Gibbs’ rookie season, as well as David Montgomery’s impressive 1,015-yard, 13-touchdown year. He also occasionally spoke in front of the entire team as a well-respected member of the coaching staff.
This year, after the Lions were...
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It’s probably been a while since you’ve heard the name Bob Quinn, but the former Detroit Lions general manager is back in the news.
After the Lions parted ways with Quinn in the middle of the 2020 season, he eventually joined the Cleveland Browns as a senior consultant. The next year, he was promoted to senior personnel/coaching executive, allowing him to work on both the coaching and team personnel side of the business.
But with the Browns’ latest regime dissolved in the midst of a new head coaching search, Quinn is leaving the organization and following former Browns head coach...
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With the 2025 NFL regular season well in the rearview mirror and the Super Bowl the final remaining game until August, analysts are beginning to shift their focus toward the NFL Draft. On Monday, NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah released his first mock draft of the 2026 season, and as we saw with The Athletic’s Dane Brugler’s mock draft last week, some of his projections will change perspectives on prospects throughout the draft community.
Like Brugler, Jeremiah had the draft’s top two offensive tackles—Utah’s Spencer Fano and Miami’s Francis Mauigoa—selected in the top six picks and the top two edge rushers—Texas...
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With 30 of 32 NFL teams now in the offseason, it’s a good time to review the Detroit Lions’ 2025 roster and how they performed, but also to look forward to 2026 and how the team may address each position.
We’ll kick off the series with quarterbacks, where the Lions find themselves in a perfectly fine position at starter, but some small questions at depth.
Jared Goff stats:
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The NFL is a copycat league, and as the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are the only two remaining teams left in the playoffs, you can already see people trying to figure out how to emulate their success. I always find this to be a particularly amusing game to play, because the difference between winning and losing in the playoffs is so narrow that we could just as easily be talking about two completely different teams had the tiniest of outcomes gone the other way.
It also assumes that these two teams possess the only proper way to team...
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Whenever a team makes a change to its coaching staff, the front office will often tap into the new coach’s familiarity with the upcoming free agents they have coached over their careers. This offseason, Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes will have a chance to do this with new offensive coordinator Drew Petzing and the 30+ players he’s familiar with who are set to become free agents in March.
Let’s take a look at the 2026 free agents whom Petzing has either directly coached or indirectly worked with over the last decade of his coaching career.
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The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks have booked their tickets to the Super Bowl. The Detroit Lions, meanwhile, are left wondering what it would take to be in their shoes.
After a 9-8 season in which the Lions barely sniffed the playoff picture, Detroit has a lot to envy from these two Super Bowl teams. It is also not difficult to envision the Lions in a similar situation. They have had an elite offense, they have had star players on defense—why did success not materialize like it did for Seattle or New England?
Today’s Question of the Day is:...
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It’s time to determine the two teams in Super Bowl LX.
The 2025-26 NFL playoffs continue on Sunday with the NFC and AFC Championship games.
To kick things off, the Denver Broncos will host the New England Patriots in a battle of the AFC’s No. 1 and No. 2 seeds. The headline of the matchup is Broncos backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham, who will start the game after Bo Nix suffered a broken ankle late in the Divisional Round. It’s a fascinating position for Stidham, who has only started four games in seven years, but it’s not just about him. These...
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The NFL playoff field is down to four teams, and by the end of the day, we’ll be down to the final two.
NFL Conference Championship Weekend kicks off Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. ET with the Denver Broncos hosting the New England Patriots. Both franchises have seemingly revived themselves after their long span of success was interrupted by some recent missteps. Mike Vrabel has the Patriots competitive again in just one season at the helm, while it’s been a three-year project for Sean Payton and the Broncos—taking a 5-12 team in 2022 to 14-3 and the AFC’s top seed...
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