6. Campbell and Fipp put a big emphasis last week on being aggressive and returning punts. They thought there’d be an opportunity for a big return against the Browns and Raymond proved them right with his 65-yarder in the fourth quarter. Raymond returned five punts last week vs. Cleveland. He had returned just six the previous three weeks. Will the Lions look to be aggressive this week in Cincinnati returning punts?
7. To say Sheppard was impressed with Alim McNeill’s first practice Wednesday coming off the PUP list would be a bit of an understatement. Sheppard said McNeill looked like he’d been in training camp and practice all year. Sheppard is really excited about getting McNeill back, whenever that might be, and said it will be fun deploying what he called four starting caliber defensive tackles – McNeill, Reader, Williams and Roy Lopez – in the middle of his defense.
8. Morton has been around some good offenses over his 20-plus years coaching in NFL. He said this year’s Lions group has a chance to be the best, even better than the early Oakland Raiders teams he was on with Tim Brown, Rich Gannon, Jerry Rice, Tyrone Wheatley and Charlie Garner.
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