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Lions Hire Former Rams Coach Scott Linehan as Offensive Coordinator

The Lions coaching staff is coming together nicely. Gone are Rod Marinelli, Joe Barry and Jim Colletto. In are Jim Schwartz, Gunther Cunningham, and Scott Linehan. The Rams fired Linehan as their head coach last September after the team stumbled to an 0-4 start. By all accounts he was dreadful, amassing a 11-25 record in...

Daunte Culpepper Gets Lions to Goal Line, Drew Stanton Takes Care of the Rest

No idea what the script for the Jaguars-Lions game would even look like -- there are so many subplots, it's hard to keep up with all of them -- but Daunte Culpepper, Pee Wee League football coach earlier this week, got the start for Detroit and promptly reintroduced fans to what made him so good in Minnesota: play-action...

Word on the Street: Culpepper Takes Majority of Snaps at Lions Practice, Might Start

With the Lions organization pretty much FUBAR (Matt Millen be damned), last week the club went about the task of finding a starting quarterback now that Dan Orlovsky might be out for a spell with an injured thumb. Daunte Culpepper was officially signed on Monday, and because of Orlovsky's situation, there's a decent...

ESPN Reports That Brady Quinn Will Finally Start for Browns This Week

Although it's not yet up on the dot com, ESPN Primetime peeps Trey Wingo and Trent Dilfer are reporting that it's BRADY QUINN TIME!? in Cleveland. Yep, that's right, after head coach Romeo Crennel, during his weekly Monday presser, said that Derek Anderson was his starter "as of right now," something changed. No idea what...

Lions Only 0-8 Team in NFL History With Quarterback Controversy

Another Sunday, another loss for the Lions, this time in debilitating, "how the hell did we lose that one!?" fashion. Good news is on the way, however, in the form of quarterback Daunte Culpepper, who was last relevant in 2004. Apparently, though, not everybody thinks Culpepper is this franchise's savior. Weird, I know....