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• The Smackbowl - The Final Reckoning
Well all of my attempts at recovering the original listing of y'alls teams have failed so I guess it is lost. I cannot reach a person to help. So I propose that this be the final Smackbowl and an abbreviated one as well since we already missed the Wild Card Round, where, let's be realistic, you probably would have stocked up on teams that lost anyway. So - the final three weeks will be used. A...2026
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• What Happened to Matt Prater? A Look at Why Michael Badgley Is the New Bills Kicker
The Bills will be without kicker Matt Prater in Week 17, as Michael Badgley will fill in for Buffalo’s game against the Philadelphia Eagles....2025
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• What Happened to Matt Prater? A Look at Why Michael Badgley Is the New Bills Kicker
The Bills will be without kicker Matt Prater in Week 16, as Michael Badgley is expected to fill in for Buffalo’s game against the Browns...2025
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• What Happened to Tyler Bass, and When Will He Return? Latest on the Bills Kicker and His Replacement Matt Prater
Get the latest on Tyler Bass ahead of the Week 12 game and how his replacement Matt Prater has performed so far for the Buffalo Bills....2025
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• Best Kicker for Fantasy Football 2025: Updated Week 13 Rankings Include Wil Lutz, Matt Prater, Matt Gay
These overlooked kickers could deliver huge fantasy points this week against defenses that have struggled to contain opposing offenses....2025
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• What Happened to Tyler Bass, and When Will He Return? Latest on the Bills Kicker and His Replacement Matt Prater
Get the latest on Tyler Bass ahead of the Week 12 game and how his replacement Matt Prater has performed so far for the Buffalo Bills....2025
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• How Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell rebuilt the Lions roster: Defense and Special Teams

Photo by Mike Mulholland/Getty Images While the Detroit Lions had pieces of a successful offense under head coach Matt Patricia, it was the defense that stood out for all the wrong reasons. The defensive mastermind failed to master anything during his time as head coach, and when time came to rebuild, new general manager Brad Holmes had a lot of work to do to clean up the mess left by Patr...2025
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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...2025
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• 2024 Detroit Lions awards: Special Teams Player of the Year

Photo 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...2025
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• NFL free agent rankings: Kickers

Troy 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...2025
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• LAR 13 ARI 9: ROTB Questions

Photo 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...2024
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• Browns options as kicker Dustin Hopkins struggles

Photo 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...2024
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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
• 6 most notable quotes from Detroit Lions coordinators for Vikings game

Photo 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...2024
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• Week 7 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade, plus 3 bonus streamers

The 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...2024
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• Week 6 kicker rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade

The 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...2024
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• Hail to the Cardinals’ Holdovers

Photo 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...2024
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• Clayton Tune is no ordinary rookie QB

Brad 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...2023
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2026
"Stroud, NE-Drake Maye RB1 : BUF-James Cook, DEN-RJ Harvey , HOU-Woody Marks , NE-Rhamondre Stevenson RB2 : BUF-Ray Davis, DEN-Jaleel McLaughlin, HOU-Nick Chubb , NE-TreVeyon Henderson TE : BUF-Dalton Kincaid, DEN-Evan Engram , HOU-Dalton Schultz, NE-Hunter Henry WR1 : BUF-Khalil Shakir, DEN-Courtland Sutton, HOU-Nico Collins, NE-Stefon Diggs WR2 : BUF-Brandin Cooks, DEN-Troy Franklin, HOU-Christian Kirk , NE-Kayshon Boutte WR3 : BUF-Keon Coleman, DEN-Marvin Mims, HOU-Jayden Higgins , NE-DeMario Douglas PK : BUF-Matt Prater , DEN-Wil Lutz, HOU-Ka'imi Fairbairn, NE-Andres Borregales DEF: BUF, DEN, HOU, NE NFC Team: QB : CHI-Caleb Williams, LAR-Matthew Stafford, SEA-Sam Darnold , SF-Brock Purdy RB1 : CHI-D'Andre Swift, LAR-Kyren Williams, SEA-Kenneth Walker III, SF-Christian McCaffrey RB2 : CHI-Kyle Monangai, LAR-Blake Corum, SEA-Zach Charbonnet, SF-Brian Robinson Jr."

2025
"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."

• How Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell rebuilt the Lions roster: Defense and Special Teams
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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...2025
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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...2025
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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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• Best Kicker for Fantasy Football 2025: Updated Week 13 Rankings Include Wil Lutz, Matt Prater, Matt Gay
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• Week 4 Fantasy Kicker Rankings: Notable Players Include Matt Prater and Spencer Schrader
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• Week 4 Fantasy Kicker Rankings and Streamers: Notable Players Include Matt Prater and Spencer Schrader
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• Bills score 16 unanswered late to shock Ravens
Josh Allen led Buffalo to three scores in the final four minutes, the last a 32-yard field goal by Matt Prater as time expired, and the Bills rallied from 15 points down to stun the Baltimore Ravens 41-40 in a season-opening Sunday night thriller....2025
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• How Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell rebuilt the Lions roster: Defense and Special Teams
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• Lions roster preview: Is Jake Bates the next long-term kicker?
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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...2025
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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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• Matt Prater, Tebow's old clutch kicker, comes off the couch to deliver Bills' stunning win over Ravens

Prater was on full-time dad duty a week ago before the Bills signed the 41-year-old off the street...2025
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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 Edition

It’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...2024
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• Hail to the Cardinals’ Holdovers
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• Questions about the Cardinals’ signing of WR Zay Jones

Photo 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,...2024
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• Grading every notable decision from Lions GM Brad Holmes’ career

Lon 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, ...2024
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• Cigar Thoughts, Game 17: Seahawks win, Seahawks lose

Joe 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...2024
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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?...2014
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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...2017
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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....2015
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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....2015
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• Best Kicker for Fantasy Football 2025: Updated Week 13 Rankings Include Wil Lutz, Matt Prater, Matt Gay
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• Week 4 Fantasy Kicker Rankings: Notable Players Include Matt Prater and Spencer Schrader
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• Week 4 Fantasy Kicker Rankings and Streamers: Notable Players Include Matt Prater and Spencer Schrader
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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

The 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...2024
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• Week 4 fantasy football rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade

The 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...2024
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• Week 3 fantasy football rankings: 3 kickers to stream, 3 to fade

The 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...2024
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• Fantasy football kicker rankings: 3 to stream, 3 to fade in Week 2

The 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...2024
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• Fantasy Football ‘24: Waiver Wire, Week 2 Edition
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• The Chiefs-Bills rivalry is incapable of producing a bad game

Buffalo extended their regular season domination over Kansas City. But they know that the playoffs are another matter altogetherOf course Josh Allen didn’t take a breath in the final seconds of the latest Chiefs-Bills classic. “You never know with Pat [Mahomes],” Allen told reporters after Buffalo eked out a 28-21 win on Sunday. Bills kicker Matt Prater had earlier missed a 52-yard field goal with...2025
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• Bills remain perfect after holding off spirited fight from Dolphins

Miami Dolphins 21-31 Buffalo BillsContest is close until late Tua Tagovailoa interceptionBills have beaten Dolphins in 14 of past 15 meetingsDolphins remain winless this season, Bills are 3-0Josh Allen threw three touchdown passes and Terrel Bernard intercepted Tua Tagovailoa with three minutes left to secure the Buffalo Bills’ 31-21 win over the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night. James Cook had 1...2025
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• How Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell rebuilt the Lions roster: Defense and Special Teams
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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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• Open thread: Which NFL records could be broken in the near future?
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• 2024 Detroit Lions awards: Special Teams Player of the Year
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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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• Lions roster preview: Is Jake Bates the next long-term kicker?
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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...2024
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• Listing the probabilities the Lions will pick a player at each position

Trevor 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...2024
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• Cigar Thoughts, Game 6: Big beaks > tiny beaks

Steven 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 ...2023
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• NFL Playoff Picture Has Been Reshaped by the Two-Point Runback
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• Detroit Lions vs. New Orleans Saints Betting Odds, Analysis, NFL Pick
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• Matthew Stafford Rekindles Darkhorse MVP Hopes as Lions Roar into NFC Contention
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• Mike Freeman's 10-Point Stance: Russell Wilson Will Be Even Better This Year
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• Mike Tanier's Monday Morning Hangover: Attack of the Zombie Quarterbacks
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