- The team met today and reviewed film from Sunday’s win at Dallas. The players are off Tuesday and will return to the practice field Wednesday.
- The Lions win at Dallas moved their record to 4-0 on the season, their first 4-0 start since 1980. It is the fifth 4-0 start in team history, previously accomplished in 1934, 1939, 1956 and 1980.
- It marks the team’s first 4-0 start in team history that includes three road wins.
- The win also extended the Lions current win streak to 8 games. It is the longest win streak by the Lions since they won nine in a row in 1953-54 seasons.
- The Detroit Lions host the Chicago Bears in Week 5 for the first Monday Night Football game (regular season) at Ford Field. The Lions will be looking for their first 5-0 start since 1956 after a come-from-behind, 34-30 victory at Dallas while Chicago will be aiming to build on the momentum of a 34-29 win against Carolina.
- This week’s game will be televised nationally on ESPN (WXYZ-TV ABC 7 in Metro Detroit)
“One of them, their offensive lineman slightly moved and he saw that and was trying to react to get it called. The officials never saw their guy (move). He moved, but it wasn’t very much. Sometimes they’re not going to see all of those. For the other (two), the way we play up front, we’re going to have some. We need to have less, but we’re going to have some. I would rather have a couple more offsides and a couple more sacks than less sacks and less offsides, but there’s a balancing act there. We need to make sure that the situation isn’t hurting the team. All penalties hurt the team, but particularly there are some situations where offsides are inexcusable.”
