The team began its on-field preparation for its Week 6 matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles today with a practice in helmets and shorts on the indoor fields at the team’s headquarters and practice facility in Allen Park.
Today, the Lions took their annual team photo, including individual position group pictures.
This week is the team’s scheduled Bye Week and the Lions will return to practice Tuesday, October 9. The Lions will hit the road in Week 6 when they travel to Philadelphia to face the Eagles.
LIONS HEAD COACH JIM SCHWARTZ
On interceptions coming in bunches: “A lot of interceptions come from pass rush. A lot of pass rush comes from game situation; make a team one-dimensional or have a big lead. All those contribute to turnovers, to sacks, to different things like that.”
On the pass combination of QB Matthew Stafford and WR Calvin Johnson not having a touchdown together this season and how surprising that fact is:
“I think everybody’s game plan is starting with, ‘let’s try to keep them from doing that.’ That’s definitely part of the situation. It’s not to say that we can’t be effective and we can’t score on offense. We don’t have any goals on how many touchdowns Calvin and Matthew are going to connect for. What we want to do is we want to score. Whether it’s Calvin or anybody else, our goal is the get in the end zone and score. We don’t play fantasy football. When we’re trying to score we don’t care who does it.”
On Stafford’s performance so far and him being ranked 21st is dropping his confidence:
“The only rating that means anything is that we’re 1-3 right now. If he was 158.3 and we were 1-3, we’d feel the same. Again, ratings and power rankings and stats and fantasy football – it is fun for other people. Our job is to win games. We won one out of first three. We need to do better.”
