... tough. So I wish the Lions would quit forcing him to prove it every week.

Actually, it’s the Lions’ offensive line—feel free to put the accent on the second syllable—that’s putting QB Stafford in peril every Sunday. Just as I feared, way back in training camp.

Stafford winced and grimaced and grunted and groaned his way through another football game yesterday, picking himself off the turf in Cincinnati slower than molasses running uphill at times.

It’s his non-throwing shoulder that is a mess, with the emphasis being on “non-throwing.” In football, if what’s hurt...

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