Young and Delmas are "best friends" now

The Detroit Lions probably can’t wait to get the season started. In an offseason marred by off field arrests and fights, there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

First, defensive tackle Nick Fairley apologized for his recent arrests. Now Louis Delmas and Titus Young have mended their fractured relationship.

Young said last week that everything was ok after he sucker punched Delmas during an offseason training activity. Delmas finally put this story to bed by telling reporters that he and Young are best friends.


“I guess I’ll say right now this is like the honeymoon, getting back on the right track,” Young said last week. “I am very excited about being on the football field, but I hope this excitement leads my whole team to be excited. I don’t want to be the only one excited, I want everybody else in this locker room to be excited, not just about me being back but about this opportunity we have going forth in this season.”    


If anyone found Young’s statement to be shady here is Delmas’ end of it.

“That’s my boy,” Delmas said before the start of the Nate Burleson-Stephen Tulloch Celebrity Softball Game. “Me and him are like best friends now at the end of the day.”


That should put an end to that story. For Lions fans they should hope that they don’t hear about anymore illicit offseason activities.

Jim Schwartz scolds young Lions

After the latest off field fiasco involving Nick Fairley trying to play the role of the bandit, Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz couldn’t take it anymore. Schwartz had a lot to say regarding the incidents involving Mikel Leshoure, Titus Young, and Nick Fairley, mentioning that their actions are tainting the reputations of their teammates.

“What we have here is a case of a few guys tainting the reputations of a lot of others,” he said. “The actions of a few have affected the reputations of not just the other guys on the team but the organization as a whole and obviously, that’s not a good situation.”

“The issues we have here have involved young guys, guys coming off their rookie year,” he said. “It’s obviously a big concern that the problems have come up more than once with a couple of guys. You always approach this with the idea that guys will make mistakes and learn from them. It appears that a couple of guys haven’t.


“It is a concern but they are still young and there is still a lot in front of them. We are hopeful that with the means at their disposal and the means at our disposal, they will eventually be able to put this behind them.”


Combine that with Ndamukong Suh’s on and off field behavior, Schwartz has every right to be concerned and angry.

Schwartz can “scold” players all he wants, but until they mature and learn how to police themselves it’s gonna keep happening. Players don’t call out each other for their bad decisions anymore and the vets in the locker room aren’t respected if they haven’t won anything. Maybe general manager Martin Mayhew needs to come in and threaten a few jobs to get some of them in line.