Officially scratch the Bengals deal. Pro Football Talk and the Detroit Free Press are reporting Shaun Rogers will be traded to the Cleveland Browns for cornerback Leigh Bodden and a third round draft choice. As for why the original deal fell through, all I’m finding is the league didn’t approve it.
As cornerback is a massive [...]

At Mlive tonight, Lions beat writer Killer Kowalski is reporting the Rogers trade is in “limbo.” Doing a little on-line poking around, I found a report from Fox Sports NFL writer Alex Marvez, who claims the trade is still being “negotiated.” According to Sports Illustrated and the Detroit News, their reports say “the deal appears [...]

The first fat domino fell just as I was finishing up my previous post. The Lions have made their first major roster move, and it’s the one everyone expected.
Shaun Rogers is no longer a member of the Detroit Lions. Big Baby was shipped to the Cincinnati Bengals for 3rd and 5th round picks in the [...]

NFL free agency began today, and the moratorium on trades was lifted. The Lions were expected to be quite active in both the free agent and trade markets. Unfortunately, they are being noticed not for what they have done, which is nothing, but what they haven’t done, which is nothing. How much nothing? A whole [...]

With NFL free agency set to start in a little over 3 hours, rumors involving the Detroit Lions are running rampant. Let’s see where the worst run team in professional sports stands.
From all reports, the Shaun Rogers “situation” will come to a head on Friday when the trade moratorium is lifted. We’ve heard there’s plenty [...]

Pro Football Talk is reporting the Lions have come to an agreement with former Buccaners, Saints and Vikings safety Dwight Smith. He won’t come cheap…
Per the source, Smith gets a $350,000 signing bonus, a $300,000 training-camp reporting bonus in 2008, and a 2008 base salary of $1.35 million. Next year, Smith is due to [...]

If you are William Clay Ford and the Detroit Lions, you raise ticket prices.
From today’s Detroit Free Press:
“In order for us to maintain competitiveness in the NFL, we have to do this,” executive vice president Tom Lewand said today.
Uh, I have a question Mr Lewand. When was the last time the Lions were truly competitive? [...]

…Let’s review where the Lions stand, shall we?
If you read my other blog today, you’d have seen I spent the day making “Shaun Rogers is fat” jokes, expecting the roly-poly tackle to be traded. Well, the trade with Denver, or with any other team, has yet to happen.
It’s expected Rogers will be dealt before March [...]

Big Al’s magic 8 ball says, “All signs point to yes.”
To get a feel as to why I’m so sure a trade between Denver and Detroit will blow up in Matt Millen’s face, we need to turn back the dial on the wayback machine 1 year.
On March 1, 2007, the Denver Broncos and Detroit Lions [...]

In a move that surprised no one, long derided starting cornerback Fernando Bryant was released by the Lions this afternoon. Though the Detroit front office wouldn’t say it, I suspect Bryant was cut for his own health, as he ended the season suffering from 3rd degree windburns caused by wide receivers running past him in [...]