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Getty Images The Panthers were among several teams vying for Matthew Stafford before the Lions agreed to trade him to the Rams, but the reports of what the Panthers were offering is eye-opening. Carolina offered up its first-round pick this year, No. 8 overall, and more, according to Albert...

Getty Images The Lions will become well positioned for the 2022 and 2023 drafts once their blockbuster trade with the Rams becomes official at the start of the new league year in March. But that doesn’t mean the team isn’t going to be competitive until two or three years down the line. “Of...

Getty Images It’s not Ken Stabler for Dan Pastorini. Still, the trade that, if consummated, will send Matthew Stafford to the Rams and Jared Goff to the Lions will add plenty of intrigue to the coming football season. Let’s start with Stafford. Through 12 seasons in Detroit, he’s made it to...

Getty Images The Rams ended up with one quarterback from the NFC North. They first tried to get another one. Sam Farmer of the L.A. Times reports that the Rams made a run at Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Per Farmer, the Packers were “adamant” that they weren’t trading Rodgers. Farmer...

Getty Images The trade that sent quarterback Matthew Stafford from the Lions to the Rams potentially becomes relevant to any eventual trade talks involving Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson. It shouldn’t. Sure, the Texans may try to argue that, if Stafford is worth two first-round picks and a...

Getty Images Although plenty of articles (including most of the articles written by me) will characterize the Matthew Stafford for Jared Goff trade as a done deal, it’s not. It won’t be until March 17 at 4:01 p.m. ET. More specifically, it won’t be until both teams communicate the same terms...

USA TODAY Sports In response to our item regarding the ability of the Rams or Lions to back away from a trade that won’t and can’t become official until March 17, a high-level executive with another team pointed out that there’s a much easier way for the Lions to get out of the deal, if they...

Getty Images Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson presumably has a short list of teams to which he’d like to be traded. As it turns out, eventually-to-be former Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford had a short list of teams to which he wouldn’t like to be traded. A very short list. Tom Curran of...

Getty Images The Rams traded up to the first overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft to select Jared Goff. Three years later, they signed Goff to a four-year, $134 million contract extension. Two years after that, they were desperate to get rid of him. Goff didn’t appreciate that desperation, and...

Getty Images The betting markets think the Rams put themselves in great shape to win the Super Bowl by acquiring Matthew Stafford, while the Lions waved the white flag on the 2021 season by accepting Jared Goff and a bunch of future draft picks. The Rams’ odds to win next year’s Super Bowl...

Getty Images The stunning news that the Rams are trading Jared Goff and picks to the Lions for Matthew Stafford means the Rams are poised to go seven consecutive years without a first-round draft pick. The last time the Rams used a pick in the first round it was Goff, the first overall pick in...

Getty Images Initial reactions are emerging regarding the trade that will, as of March 17, send quarterback Matthew Stafford from the Lions to the Rams for quarterback Jared Goff, a pair of first-round picks, and a third-round pick. As one executive with a team not connected to the trade opined...

Getty Images When the Browns received a second-round pick from the Texans to take on Brock Osweiler’s $16 million guaranteed salary in 2017, it was obvious he wouldn’t be on the Week One roster in Cleveland. And he wasn’t. So what will the Lions now do with Jared Goff and the bad contract they...

Getty Images Two former No. 1 overall choices are changing places. In the first blockbuster deal of 2021, Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff are switching teams. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Detroit is dealing Stafford to the Rams in exchange for two future first-round picks, a third-round...

Getty Images Lions coach Dan Campbell says Matthew Stafford trade talks are heading up. Campbell told Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press that Stafford talks have gotten “hot and heavy.” Ian Rapoport of NFL Network adds that a trade is expected to be agreed upon before the Super Bowl...

USA TODAY Sports The 49ers have found another coach for their defensive staff. San Francisco is hiring former Detroit defensive coordinator Cory Undlin to be the club’s pass game specialist/secondary coach, according to Field Yates of ESPN. Undlin spent the 2020 season with Detroit after five...

Getty Images Lions head coach Dan Campbell has added an experienced assistant to help on the defensive side of the ball. The Lions announced that Dom Capers has been hired as a senior defensive assistant. He served in the same position with the Vikings last season and with the Jaguars during...

Getty Images Former Rams director of college scouting Brad Holmes has said farewell, but not good bye. Holmes, now the General Manager of the Lions, reportedly is talking to his old boss, Rams G.M. Les Snead, regarding possible trade scenarios involving Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford...

Getty Images The Lions made it official on Friday morning, announcing the hirings of assistant coaches Duce Staley, Mark Brunell, and Mark DeLeone. Staley will serve as the club’s assistant head coach/running backs coach. He spent the majority of his playing career and all of his coaching...

USA TODAY Sports Mark Brunell interviewed with the Lions, and it apparently went well. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports the Lions are expected to hire Brunell as their quarterbacks coach. Brunell, 50, took a job in broadcasting after retiring from the NFL. His last season was 2011 with the...