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Lions News: Madden 25 ratings revealed

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August 4, 2024

For years when I was a kid (and if we are being honest, as a young adult) the release of Madden was almost a holiday. It signaled that football season was getting close, and playing the game was a great way to pass the time until the real thing got started. Now, in the year 2024, the time has finally come. The Detroit Lions are one of the best teams in the game as soon as the game is downloaded onto your console.

That’s right. The Lions are tied for the fifth best team in the game right from the jump. In fact, if you play online a lot, I would bet that they will be one of those teams that is used way too much in head to head matchups. And to be fair to gamers around the world, why wouldn’t you want to use the Lions?

From pass catchers like Amon-Ra St. Brown, Sam LaPorta, and Jameson Williams, to running backs Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery—this team is a tailor-made video game super power, especially on the offensive side of the football.

If you are interested in doing a deeper dive, you can view the full ratings website for the game here.

And now, onto the rest of today’s notes:

Former Lions’ running back and overall good human Kerryon Johnson finished his degree at the University of Auburn.

The Lions checked in with five players on the NFL’s top-100 for the 2024 season, and the fact that it isn’t at least six players is an absolute travesty. The best center in football should be top-50 at the very least.

Tough call here but I am going with deep space.

Only five more. We can do this.

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5 things to watch: Lions-Giants joint practices

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11 hours ago

August 4, 2024

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5 things to watch: Lions-Giants joint practices

3. New kickoff rule

Special teams coordinator Dave Fipp has spent a lot of time figuring out the best combinations of personnel for the new kickoff play and who might fit best returning kicks. It will be interesting to see the two teams practice the play during the week.

It’s good to go against another team early on to see how they are strategizing the play and what Fipp and the Lions might need to do to counter.

“There’s a lot of unknown, I think,” Fipp said last week. “At the end of the day what I told our players is, we’ll be ready to adjust on the scheme and all that stuff, but any play in football is going to come down to the same old things.

“It’s going to come down to blocking or evading a blocker, and then it’s going to come down to tackling and it’s going to come down to making somebody miss. So, at the end of the day, we’ll spend a lot of time on fundamentals and technique, and we’ll also be ready to adjust and adapt to any other thing that we see out there that we think is successful.”

4. D-line and secondary gains

This Lions’ defense will be much improved in 2024 if they can get a more consistent pass rush from their front four and better play all around from their revamped secondary. So far the first two weeks of training camp those two areas look to be the most improved on the entire team.

“Man, we are getting off blocks, you even see improvement in players like (Alim McNeill) Mac, (Aidan Hutchinson) Hutch, just taking another step, Levi (Onwuzurike), certainly (Marcus) Davenport’s back out there now and he’s practicing,” Campbell said.

“And then with the DBs, man, you feel us challenge, we’re challenging on the perimeter and they’re covering pretty good down the field, so when you do that, you can’t help but get better.”

It’s looked good so far against Detroit’s offense, which is one of the better units in the league. The hope is the defense really has the edge and gets the better of a Giants’ offense that wasn’t as productive last year and doesn’t have all the weapons both upfront and at the skill positions as the Lions have.

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Warren toddler shoots himself with babysitter’s gun, police say

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August 4, 2024

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Warren toddler shoots himself with babysitter’s gun, police say – CBS Detroit

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A toddler was hospitalized Saturday evening after shooting himself in the stomach with what police say was his babysitter’s handgun.

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Detroit Tigers’ Parker Meadows confident in timing of swing in return from injured list

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August 3, 2024

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Detroit Tigers’ Parker Meadows confident in timing of swing in return from injured list

Detroit Tigers center fielder Parker Meadows is back in action.

The 24-year-old was slated to start Saturday’s game against the Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park, his first game for the Tigers since July 7. The Tigers activated him from the injured list following the completion of his rehab assignment with Triple-A Toledo.

Meadows has fully recovered from a right hamstring strain.

“It feels great,” Meadows said. “It feels like it’s been a long time, but I’m glad to be back.”

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Meadows completed four games in his rehab assignment.

“We’re excited to get him back,” manager A.J. Hinch said. “I’ll probably give him the day game off, and we’ll ease him into the more everyday role. … It’s nice to see him walk through the door and be ready to play.”

He hit .214 (3-for-14) with two walks and three strikeouts in four games, playing two of four games in center field. He gained trust in his legs over those four games.

“It’s hard to get past that,” Meadows said. “Once I made those first couple of steps full sprint, I realized I was good to go and felt good.”

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Now that Meadows is back, he hopes to build upon a successful three games from early July. Remember, the Tigers recalled Meadows from Triple-A Toledo, but in his third game, he suffered the hamstring injury while trying to steal second base.

Meadows credited an adjustment to his swing mechanics and a fix to the timing of his swing for his three-game success, in which he hit .364 (4-for-11) with one home run, one walk and two home runs against the Cincinnati Reds.

“Obviously, it’s a little hard not seeing live pitching for however long it was,” Meadows said, when asked about the timing of his swing. “It’s part of the game. I’m going to keep the same confidence.”

Casey Mize ahead of Kerry Carpenter, Riley Greene?

Right-hander Casey Mize (left hamstring strain), outfielder Kerry Carpenter (lumbar spine stress fracture) and outfielder Riley Greene (right hamstring strain) participated in a live batting practice session before Saturday’s game at Comerica Park.

Mize simulated two innings.

“I didn’t think about the leg at all,” Greene said. “Felt good, felt normal.”

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Carpenter, who hasn’t played in a game since May 26, needs to complete base-running drills Sunday, but he sounded like he expected to start a rehab assignment as soon as Tuesday.

“It’s a probably,” Carpenter said. “If the baserunning goes well, and I think it will, then I’ll be good. … I’m excited to be back out there. That would be amazing. I miss it.”

Hinch, though, explained that Mize is ahead of Carpenter and Greene in the rehab assignment process, which is surprising because Mize — whom the Tigers recently transferred to the 60-day injured list — isn’t eligible to return to the Tigers until Aug. 30.

The Tigers certainly won’t have Mize make five rehab starts in return from a hamstring strain, will they?

“He’ll be first to get challenged a little bit more depending how he comes out of it,” Hinch said of Mize. “The sun is starting to shine a little bit with these guys, where they can get out to a rehab at some point, but they’re not all going to be on the same timeline. Casey is probably, from a decision standpoint, a little faster than the others.”

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