Terrence Metcalf News

Lions coach Jim Schwartz said after practice that quarterback Matthew Stafford likely will start Thursday's exhibition finale but he was not certain about the status of Daunte Culpepper and Drew Stanton.

Lions coach Jim Schwartz said Friday that the players remaining after the team trims its roster to the NFL-mandated 53 won't necessarily be the ones Detroit takes into the start of the regular season.

The Detroit Lions patched up their quarterback corps Tuesday, signing Brooks Bollinger after Drew Stanton had an arthroscopic procedure on a knee.

Originally published August 17, 2009 at 2:05 p.m., updated August 17, 2009 at 4:45 p.m. ALLEN PARK, Mich.

On the Bears' trip south along Interstate 57 from Bourbonnais to Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon, an Illinois state trooper pulled over the team's three buses.

We have covered it here before but it's worth going over again. One of the reasons the Bears are in such a good position with the salary cap this season is because they manage to do a pretty good job of limiting their dead cap space.

I'm totally sick of people trying to bash JA for bad moves. He saved the Bears, and people don't realize what he did.

Not that Rex Grossman needed to see how badly his Bears teammates hurt Sunday, but there was no avoiding the pain in his path off Soldier Field.

The offensive line had a new look when the Bears opened the doors at Halas Hall for their OTA on Wednesday.