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Tom Lewand was rightfully optimistic about the Lions’ signing back most of their vital free agents and getting something worked out with Johnson, but it won't be easy. Running through scenarios is enough to make your head explode.
The Super Bowl is still a week away and already every major angle has been dissected and inspected for a full week. It's everywhere. You’d have to be holed up in a cave to escape the coverage.
You don’t overreact to a couple of games. That’s what the “old” Lions would do. Give up 45 points in each of the last two games and start blowing things up — fire the coordinator, fire the position coach, overhaul the system and the roster.
Chris McCosky has been covering sports - prep, college and pros - in Michigan since 1980, and formerly covered the Detroit Pistons for 18 years and the Detroit Red Wings for one year.
A graduate of Eastern Michigan University (B.S., 1980), McCosky became associate sports editor of the Muskegon Chronicle in 1987, but soon after joined the Ann Arbor News. He covered the University of Michigan football and basketball programs from 1988 through 1992. In that time, he covered two Rose Bowls, the Wolverines' NCAA title run in basketball in 1989 and, in 1990, he broke the news of football coach Bo Schembechler's retirement.
McCosky lives in the Livonia and is the proud father of three kids - Ryan, 22, finishing his degree at Concordia University in Ann Arbor, where he played baseball for two seasons and is now an assistant coach; Rory, 19, a talented musician (his band is called Not Quite Porn) and a sophomore at Central Michigan University; and Molly, 17, a senior at Hopkins High School and planning to attend Eastern Michigan following graduation.
The guy who got penalized for offsides, forcing the fourth-and-1, made one of the key plays of the game. Cliff Avril got two hands on the ball to the secure the … Continued
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