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• Open thread: What is the Detroit Lions’ best player contract?Photo by Mike Mulholland/Getty Images Out of all of the Detroit Lions contracts on the book, which is the absolute best? Teams are made or broken by the deals they make. Signings, re-signings, trades, extensions, these are all choices that impact the state of an NFL team in the present and future. One bad move can set you back for years, another can signify the dawn of a new era. The Detr...2025Click for news about Detroit Lions news today
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• Lions roster preview: Is Jake Bates the next long-term kicker?Sergio Estrada-Imagn Images With an impressive rookie season in 2024, can Jake Bates prove he’s worth a long-term deal in Detroit? For the first time during the Brad Holmes-Dan Campbell era, there isn’t a question at the kicker position. For a 40-year stretch, the Detroit Lions have been spoiled at kicker, leaning on Eddie Murray from 1980 to 1991, then turning to Lions legend Jason Hanson...2025Visit the page Jake Bates headline news
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• Tyreek Hill makes PFF’s list of best NFL players over last 25-yearsGary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images Tyreek Hill was the only Miami Dolphins player to make PFF’s quarter century team. Earlier this month, the folks at Pro Football Focus compiled a list of the highest graded players in the National Football League over the past 25-years at each position on the football field. They called the list the “All-PFF Team: NFL’s best players of the past 25 years.” Only...2025Check it out Tyreek Hill news today
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• Monti Ossenfort: “Medicals are overrated.” You agree or disagree?Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images I find Monti’s Ossenfort’s statement particularly ironic At the 2025 NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Arizona Cardinals’ GM Monti Ossenfort said a curious thing during his customary presser. When asked about draft prospects who were unable to participate at the event due to injuries, Ossenfort asserted, “medicals are overrated.” This assert...2025See more articles Monti Ossenfort breaking news
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• Open thread: Which NFL records could be broken in the near future?Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images After Alex Ovechkin broke an impossible record over the weekend, are there any iconic NFL records that could be broken soon? A major mark in hockey’s record book just fell. Could we something similar happen in football in the near future? On Sunday afternoon, Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals broke the longstanding NHL goal record, reaching 89...2025Click for news about Tom Brady latest news
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• 2024 Detroit Lions awards: Special Teams Player of the YearPhoto by Nic Antaya/Getty Images Cast your vote for the 2024 Detroit Lions Special Teams Player of the Year. The Detroit Lions’ special teams unit remained one of the best in football for the 2024 season. Detroit’s coverage units remained solid, their return game had a few special moments, and even their field goal kicking took a huge step this year. That makes our next Pride of Detroit A...2025Click for news about Detroit Lions news
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• Monti Ossenfort: “Medicals are overrated.” You agree or disagree?
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• 2024 Detroit Lions awards: Special Teams Player of the Year
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• NFL free agent rankings: KickersTroy Taormina-Imagn Images Take a look at the free agents at the safety position. Kickers always seem to make a big difference in a game, but they aren’t usually highly valued on the free agency market. There are a couple notable placekickers hitting the market this year, including one of the most automatic of recent years. We polled a group of writers from around SB Nation to gather con...2025Check it out Troy Taormina Imagn injury update
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• LAR 13 ARI 9: ROTB QuestionsPhoto by Ric Tapia/Getty Images Here are 7 questions for our ROTB members As Kyle “L’il Rock” Ledbetter and I prepare for today’s Red Rain Podcast, we would like to pose to you some of the questions we are asking ourselves after the Cardinals’ frustrating 13-9 loss to the Rams last night. Why did the Cardinals play so much better and harder against the Rams than they did versus the Seahaw...2024Visit the page Red Rain injury report
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• Browns options as kicker Dustin Hopkins strugglesPhoto by Nic Antaya/Getty Images Dustin Hopkins success last year with the Browns has not followed him in 2024 One thing that appeared to be solved going into this season was special teams. The Cleveland Browns hired one of the best ST coaches in the league, Bubba Ventrone. Their long snapper Charley Hughlett was one of the best. Punter Corey Bojorquez had a sensational season in 2023 and...2024Visit the page Dustin Hopkins injury status
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• Sources: Cards PK's absence due to meniscus fix
Cardinals kicker Matt Prater has been out since early October because of surgery to repair the meniscus in his left knee, sources told ESPN....2024
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• 6 most notable quotes from Detroit Lions coordinators for Vikings gamePhoto by Nic Antaya/Getty Images The most notable Lions coordinator quotes from this week, including some Hogan Hatten love, Jameson Williams’ impact on defenses, and the Aidan Hutchinson void. As the Detroit Lions prepare for the Minnesota Vikings this week, the team’s coordinators met with the media for a variety of topics. Here are the most important takeaways from each coach’s media s...2024Click for news about Detroit Lions injuries
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• Week 7 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade, plus 3 bonus streamersThe kicker position is a tricky one if you don’t have the biggest names. Linda Godfrey offers streaming advice for the position in Week 7. Okay, so Week 6 was a doozy. Chase McLaughlin delivered for us again, finishing above average with 9 fantasy points. Matt Gay was serviceable with Joe Flacco at the helm. Gay finished with a respectable 8 points, but that’s nothing to write home about. Cairo Sa...2024See more Chase McLaughlin injury report
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• Week 6 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fadeThe kicker position is a tricky one if you don’t have the biggest names. Linda Godfrey offers streaming advice for the position in Week 6. We did it. We survived the first week of byes. I told you last week that we would either sink or swim and if you took my advice last week, baby we were like Katie Ledecky out there. Chase McLaughlin, Wil Lutz, and Cam Little all finished with double-digit fanta...2024See more Chase McLaughlin injury status
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• Week 5 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to steam, 3 to fade in fantasy footballThe kicker position is a tricky one if you don’t have the biggest names. Linda Godfrey offers streaming advice for the position in Week 5. I won’t beat around the bush, Week 4 was my worst week of kicker advice this season. I’m going to rip the bandaid off this recap. Matt Prater was my favorite start of the week but the Arizona offense could not get going against a red-hot Washington team. He fin...2024Check it out Dustin Hopkins injury update
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• Hail to the Cardinals’ HoldoversPhoto by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images It’s summer vacation and look at who’s still on board During a recent interview on Arizona Sports radio, the Cardinals’ stand-out guard Will Hernandez had this to say about the current roster, which was reiterated by Pro Bowl RB James Conner during his minicamp presser: These clips REALLY stood out to me. Will Hernandez & James Conner talking about how...2024See also Mitchell Leff
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• Clayton Tune is no ordinary rookie QBBrad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports Why Tune may be able to start games sooner, rather than later At the 2023 NFL Draft in Kansas City, when Clayton Tune was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the 5th round at pick #139, he said to the Arizona media that he believes he is the best QB in his draft class. I don't know about you, but I was impressed that Clayton Tune felt the urgency to set the ba...2023See more articles Clayton Tune
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"For a 40-year stretch, the Detroit Lions have been spoiled at kicker, leaning on Eddie Murray from 1980 to 1991, then turning to Lions legend Jason Hanson from 1992 to 2012, and finally deploying Matt Prater from 2014 to 2020." - 2024
"Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports The headline says it all, as the Seahawks are expected to be in the market for a new coach Sunday the 2023 season of the Seattle Seahawks ended with a win over the Arizona Cardinals when kicker Matt Prater, who missed five field goals all season, missed a pair of field goals in the final three minutes of the game." - 2023
"Next up: Michael Badgley Expectations heading into 2022 Since letting go of Matt Prater following the 2020 season, the Lions had employed Austin Seibert, Riley Patterson, Dominik Eberle, Sam Ficken, Randy Bullock, Zane Gonzalez, Matthew Wright, Ryan Santoso, and Aldrick Rosas at the position." - 2022
"Ammendola was called up from the Cardinals practice squad this week to replace an injured Matt Prater." - 2021
"Arizona's Matt Prater attempted what would have been an NFL-record 68-yard field goal at the end of the half at Jacksonville, and it ended up leading to an NFL-record-tying 109-yard touchdown for the Jaguars' Jamal Agnew." - 2020
"Unsurprisingly, the longest field goal in NFL history, 64 yards, was kicked in Denver by Matt Prater." - 2018
"Kicker Matt Prater threw a touchdown pass to tight end Levine Toilolo on a fake field goal as the Lions caught the Packers off guard." - 2017
"WATCH: Matt Prater one-ups Justin Tucker, bombs 76-yard field goal at 2017 Pro Bowl" - 2016
"Matthew Stafford threw a winning TD pass in OT after Matt Prater tied it at the end of regulation" - 2015
"Matt Prater hit a 41-yard field goal at the 5:20 mark to get the Lions to within four points, but Steven Hauschka canceled the tally out with a 51-yarder 1:05 from halftime to give Seattle a 10-3 edge heading into the break." - 2014
"The Denver Broncos announced Friday that they released kicker Matt Prater."
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• Open thread: What is the Detroit Lions’ best player contract?
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• Lions roster preview: Is Jake Bates the next long-term kicker?
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• Monti Ossenfort: “Medicals are overrated.” You agree or disagree?
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• 2024 Detroit Lions awards: Special Teams Player of the Year
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• NFL free agent rankings: Kickers
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• LAR 13 ARI 9: ROTB Questions
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• Browns options as kicker Dustin Hopkins struggles
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• Week 7 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade, plus 3 bonus streamers
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• Week 6 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade
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• Week 5 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to steam, 3 to fade in fantasy football
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Matt Prater stats and results
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• Lions roster preview: Is Jake Bates the next long-term kicker?
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• Week 6 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade
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• Week 4 fantasy football rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fadeThe kicker position is a tricky one if you don’t have the biggest names. Linda Godfrey offers streaming advice for the position in Week 4. The best part about NFL football is it keeps you on your toes. Whenever we think we know something, it proves us wrong. The National Football League keeps us humble. I think that’s important. Week 3 was a reminder of that humility. What an awful week for the ki...2024See more articles National Football League stats
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• The NFL kicker revolution is hereBill Streicher-Imagn Images NFL kickers are rewriting the record books for distance and accuracy in 2024. When the NFL moved back the extra point from the 2-yard line to the 15 in 2015, the reasoning was basically that the kicks were too boring. NFL kickers made 99.3% of their extra points in 2014, the season before the rule change, and the league thought that pushing it back would both ma...2024Check it out Cameron Dicker
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• Lions roster preview: Is Jake Bates the next long-term kicker?
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• Monti Ossenfort: “Medicals are overrated.” You agree or disagree?
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• 2024 Detroit Lions awards: Special Teams Player of the Year
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• Fantasy Football ‘24: Waiver Wire, Week 2 EditionIt’s likely that Likely will be priority 1 this week | Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images Wading into the free agent pool for roster help Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season is almost in the books! Thankfully, after the Jordan Love injury on Friday night there weren’t too many significant injuries on Sunday. But as is the case every week in fantasy, several big-name players came up snake eyes i...2024Click for news about Fantasy Football
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• Kyler Murray and the offense get to work this offseasonRob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK The Arizona Cardinals quarterback posted a video that will have you ready to run through a wall. Coming off a 3-5 end of the season with Kyler Murray, where they lost two games in the waning moments because of the defense or Matt Prater, it is amazing how excited many are for the Arizona Cardinals 2024 season. Much of that has to do with endi...2024See more Kyler Murray
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• Hail to the Cardinals’ Holdovers
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• Questions about the Cardinals’ signing of WR Zay JonesPhoto by Andy Lyons/Getty Images At this point in the Cardinals’ rebuild, and having drafted 3 talented WRs the past 2 year, does adding Zay Jones make sense? On Monday’s Red Rain Podcast, Kevin Murray and I will be sharing our 53-man roster favorites. The Cardinals’ recent signings of LB/ST ace Markus Bailey and WR Zay Jones has made the 53-man roster projection all the more interesting,...2024Continue with Zay Jones
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• Grading every notable decision from Lions GM Brad Holmes’ careerLon Horwedel-USA TODAY Sports The Detroit Lions would not have achieved this level of success without general manager Brad Holmes. Let’s grade all of the critical moves he did—or didn’t—make so far. The Detroit Lions have found a near-unprecedented level of success during the tenure of Brad Holmes as general manager. From top to bottom, Holmes has built a talented roster in multiple ways, ...2024Visit the page Brad Holmes
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• Cigar Thoughts, Game 17: Seahawks win, Seahawks loseJoe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports The Seattle Seahawks won a thrilling game against the Arizona Cardinals to finish 9-8, but miss the playoffs in the process. ***As most of you know, Cigar Thoughts is now a podcast. One of the perks of the pod is getting these articles in audio form, in addition to our sit-downs with our amazing guests— like this one with the brilliant GRIFF STURGEON. You ca...2024Click for news about Cigar Thoughts
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• Eagles vs. Cardinals: The good, the bad, and the uglyPhoto by Kathryn Riley/Getty Images Highlights and lowlights from Philadelphia’s Week 17 loss. So, this is how it ends. The 10-1 start. The Super Bowl talk. It’s all wiped out. The Eagles can start thinking about 2024 on New Year’s Eve, after losing for the fourth time in their last five games, suffering their biggest upset in years by visiting Jonathan Gannon and the woeful Arizona Cardi...2023Continue with Kathryn Riley
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• Lions vs. Seahawks: Score and Twitter Reaction for Monday Night Football
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• Broncos release K Matt Prater
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• Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Russell Wilson Will Be Even Better This Year
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• Matt Prater released by Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos released Matt Prater on Friday, which means they are sticking with rookie Brandon McManus as their kicker. Which teams may be looking to add the services of the Pro Bowl player?...2014Read about Denver Broncos
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• Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: The Great Manning-Favre Debate
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• WATCH: Matt Prater one-ups Justin Tucker, bombs 76-yard field goal at 2017 Pro Bowl
The Lions kicker has an absurdly strong leg...2017Check it out Pro Bowl
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• Megatron (ankle), Prater (illness) expected to play for Lions
Calvin Johnson and kicker Matt Prater are both expected to play for the Detroit Lions Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers....2015Check it out Calvin Johnson
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• Calvin Johnson, Matt Prater expected to play for Lions
Calvin Johnson and kicker Matt Prater are both expected to play for the Detroit Lions on Thursday night against the Green Bay Packers....2015Check it out Calvin Johnson
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• Week 7 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade, plus 3 bonus streamers
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• Week 3 fantasy football rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fadeThe kicker position is a tricky one if you don’t have the biggest names. Linda Godfrey offers streaming advice for the position in Week 3. Week 2 felt a little like a minefield. Dodging injury updates and looking at fantasy matchups through squinted eyes hoping you weren’t facing Alvin Kamara. After a little KP from my calls last week we can put that behind us and look forward to Week 3. The thin...2024Read about Alvin Kamara
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• Fantasy football kicker rankings: 3 to stream, 3 to fade in Week 2The kicker position is a tricky one if you don’t have the biggest names. Linda Godfrey offers streaming advice for the position in Week 2. Boy, that felt good, huh?! I watched a grotesque amount of football from Thursday to Monday, and I can’t wait to do it again and again for the next several months. I’m getting ahead of myself though, we have to stop and smell the roses. We’re just going to rip...2024See more articles Brandon Aubrey
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• Notes: Has Jake Bates done enough to win the kicking job in Detroit?Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The game-winner against the Chiefs will help, but does Jake Bates need to do more to win the Lions’ kicking job? For so long in the history of the Detroit Lions, having a reliable kicker was almost an afterthought. For many of those years, there were often bigger fish to fry. Kickers like Jason Hanson and Matt Prater were the epitome of consistency, and you ne...2024Read about Jake Bates
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• Position battleground (defense): Cowboys vs. Cardinals head-to-head breakdownPhoto by Cooper Neill/Getty Images A positional head-to-head breakdown of the Week 3 matchup between the Cowboys and Cardinals on defense. Previously we broke down the offense for this week’s upcoming game for the Dallas Cowboys. Now we dive back into the position battleground, this time looking at how the defensive positions and special teams stack up against each other. DEFENSIVE LINEWe ...2023See more Cooper Neill
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• 2018 Outlook: Matt Prater
2018 fantasy player outlook for Matt Prater, K, Lions...2018
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• Open thread: What is the Detroit Lions’ best player contract?
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• 2024 Detroit Lions awards: Special Teams Player of the Year
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• How closely is Monti Ossenfort following the Patriots’ coaching and personnel philosophies?Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images From the get-go it appears that MO has been mostly following his own m.o. One ROTB mailbag question that I have been meaning to try to answer is from Stewie43: “After living in Patriots land for years, do you see any similarities between MO’s mo for roster building and the Patriots way?” MO’s m.o.! This is such a great question —- one...2024See also Monti Ossenfort gossip
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• Listing the probabilities the Lions will pick a player at each positionTrevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports The Detroit Lions could select many positions in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft. Which positions are in need of talent, and how will they be addressed? The 2024 NFL Draft is just around the corner and the Detroit Lions have a lot of potential routes to explore with their draft picks. From adding starting-caliber talent to depth across multiple positions, gen...2024Read about Trevor Ruszkowski gossip
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• Cigar Thoughts, Game 6: Big beaks > tiny beaksSteven Bisig-USA TODAY Sports The Seahawks defense suffocated the Cardinals en route to a 20-10 victory, moving to 4-2 on the season ***As most of you know, Cigar Thoughts is now a podcast. One of the perks of the pod is getting these articles in audio form, in addition to our sit-downs with our amazing guests. You can listen to all the shows, including this article, right here: — Here’s ...2023Read about Cigar Thoughts gossip
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