2012 NFL Playoff Schedule (for Detroit Lions)
The 2012 NFL playoff schedule for the primary 2 weekends is out. The NFL created the announcement throughout the Sunday night game between the Giants and Dallas Cowboys (the Giants won, by the way).
For the Detroit Lions, what you would like to grasp is easy. as a result of they’re the No. six seed within the NFC, the Lions are set to require on the New Orleans Saints, the No. 3 seed, at the Superdome. Their game are going to be on NBC at eight p.m. (Eastern Time) on Saturday night. If the Lions win, they’re going to play at the No. 1-seeded inexperienced Bay Packers at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Sunday, Jan. 15.
WILD-CARD ROUND
Saturday, Jan. 7
- 4:30 p.m. – Bengals at Texans (NBC)
- 8 p.m. – Lions at Saints (NBC)
Sunday, Jan. 8
- 1 p.m. – Falcons at Giants (FOX)
- 4:30 p.m. – Steelers at Broncos (CBS)
DIVISIONAL ROUND
Saturday, Jan. 14
- 4:30 p.m. – Saints/Giants/Falcons at 49ers (FOX)
- 8 p.m. – Broncos/Steelers/Bengals at Patriots (CBS)
Sunday, Jan. 15
- 1 p.m. – Texans/Broncos/Steelers at Ravens (CBS)
- 4:30 p.m. – Giants/Falcons/Lions at Packers (FOX)
All Times Eastern
Robert Griffin III wins first Heisman Trophy for Baylor
Baylor QB Robert Griffin III won the Heisman Trophy tonight, a little bit of a surprise for any person who might not have been keeping up with the shift in the voting major up the announcement. Andrew Luck was the preseason preferred right after foregoing the NFL previous offseason, some thing we Panther supporters took a tiny private.
Draftek conversely doesn’t even rank Griffin in the top rated fifty. ESPN ranks Griffin #12. Walter Football thinks the Redskins will go for Griffin at #five all round, possibly a pick too early for the Panthers. FFToolbox has Griffin at #23. So it would look when in comparison to other potential clients Griffin comes in much decrease than when considered wherever he may really be drafted.
Raiders sign WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh
It was simply over per week ago that veteran quarterback Carson Palmer created his debut with the Raiders.
Not solely will the move reunite Palmer and Houshmandzadeh, who played along for 5 seasons with the Bengals, however it reunites the veteran wide receiver with Hue Jackson, his former position coach from Cincinnati who has ascended to the highest coaching spot in Oakland.
Houshmandzadeh had been a free agent when the Raiders signed him to a deal that ESPN’s John Clayton reports as being price $910,000 over the rest of the season. He played for the Baltimore Ravens throughout the 2010 season and had thirty receptions and 3 touchdowns.



