REGULAR SEASON WEEK 11 DETROIT LIONS VS. OAKLAND RAIDERS MEDIA INFORMATION GAME INFORMATION 2015 DETROIT LIONS SCHEDULE DETROIT LIONS (2-7) VS. OAKLAND RAIDERS (4-5) PRESEASON (3-1) Date: .............................Sunday, November 22 DATE OPPONENT TV TIME/RESULT Kickoff:................................................ 1:00 p.m. 8/13 NEW YORK JETS WJBK Ch.2 W, 23-3 Stadium: ........................................... Ford Field 8/20 at Washington WJBK Ch. 2 L, 17-21 Capacity: .................................................64,500 8/28 at Jacksonville CBS# W, 22-17 Playing Surface: .............................. FieldTurf 9/3 BUFFALO WJBK Ch. 2 W, 17-10 TELEVISION: CBS REGULAR SEASON (2-7) Play-By-Play: ................................................... Andrew Catalon DATE OPPONENT TV TIME/RESULT Color: ..........................................Steve Tasker, Steve Beuerlein 9/13 at San Diego FOX L, 28-33 LIONS RADIO NETWORK: 97.1 FM THE TICKET 9/20 at Minnesota FOX L, 16-26 Play-By-Play: .............................................................Dan Miller 9/27 DENVER NBC# L, 12-24 Color: .................................................................Jim Brandstatter 10/5 at Seattle ESPN# L, 10-13 Sideline: ........................................................................Tony Ortiz 10/11 ARIZONA FOX L, 17-42 SERIES INFORMATION 10/18 CHICAGO FOX W, 37-34 (OT) The Detroit Lions (2-7) return to Ford Field in Week 11 for 10/25 MINNESOTA FOX L, 19-28 a matchup with the Oakland Raiders (4-5) that marks the 11/1 at Kansas City (London) FOX# L, 10-45 beginning of a three-game home stand for Detroit. The Lions 11/8 *** BYE WEEK *** are coming off an 18-16 win over the Green Bay Packers at 11/15 at Green Bay FOX W, 18-16 Lambeau Field in Week 10, the team’s first road win against 11/22 OAKLAND CBS 1:00 p.m. the Packers since 1991, while the Raiders head to Detroit 11/26 PHILADELPHIA FOX# 12:30 p.m. following a 30-14 loss against Minnesota. The Lions and 12/3 GREEN BAY CBS/NFLN# 8:25 p.m. Raiders have met 11 times in the regular season, with 12/13 at St. Louis FOX 1:00 p.m. Detroit winning the previous meeting, 28-27 in 2011. Oak- 12/21 at New Orleans ESPN# 8:30 p.m. land leads the all-time series, 6-5-0. 12/27 SAN FRANCISCO FOX 1:00 p.m. SERIES BY THE NUMBERS 1/3 at Chicago FOX 1:00 p.m. Regular Season Record vs. Oak: ........................................5-6-0 ¾ All times Eastern Time; Home Games in BOLD CAPS ¾ # Nationally Televised Home Record vs. Oak: ..........................................................3-2-0 ¾ FLEXIBLE AND CROSS-FLEX SCHEDULING: NFL Sunday games during Record at Ford Field .............................................................1-0-0 flexible Weeks 5-17 are subject to change 12 days in advance. For Weeks 5-10, flexible scheduling can be used no more than two weeks by shifting Road Record vs. Oak: ...........................................................2-4-0 a Sunday afternoon game into primetime and moving the Sunday night game to the afternoon time slot. For Week 17, the schedule is subject Record at O.co Coliseum : ...................................................1-3-0 to change six days in advance. Games are subject to move to different Last Game: ................................... Det 28 at Oak 27 (12/18/11) time slots but dates will remain as announced. Flexible scheduling will not be applied to games airing on Thursday, Saturday or Monday Last Game at Ford Field: ............Det 23 vs. Oak 13 (11/2/03) nights. Additionally, a select number of games could be “cross-flexed,” moving between CBS and FOX to bring potentially under-distributed 2015 STATISTICAL COMPARISON games to wider audiences. OFFENSE DET Rk OAK Rk MEDIA RELATIONS CONTACTS Points/Game 18.6 29 25.2 9 Matt Barnhart ....................Director of Media Relations Total Offense 332.1 27 374.2 8 ¾ [email protected] Rushing Offense 66.9 32 102.3 20 Deanna Caldwell ................. Manager of Media Services Passing Offense 265.2 8 271.9 6 ¾ [email protected] 3rd Down Offense % 34.2 27 44.5 7 Eamonn Reynolds .............. Media Information Manager Red Zone Efficiency 66.7 2t 57.7 15 ¾ [email protected] Giveaways 21 32 15 20t Bill Keenist .....................Senior VP of Communications DEFENSE DET Rk OAK Rk ¾ Points/Game 29.0 31 26.8 27 [email protected] Total Defense 384.2 25 408.6 30 MEDIA.DETROITLIONS.COM Rushing Defense 124.1 28 115.3 23 Media.Detroitlions.com is the team’s media-only Internet Passing Defense 260.1 23 293.2 31 site. Information on the site includes the daily schedules, 3rd Down Defense % 44.4 29 40.8 23 press releases, news clippings, statistics, updated rosters Red Zone Efficiency 60.5 22t 52.9 13 and current depth chart. Individual registration is required. Takeaways 11 22t 14 13t DETROIT LIONS GAME INFORMATION CALDWELL’S SECOND SEASON IN DETROIT JIM CALDWELL COACHING OVERVIEW Head Coach ¾ Hired as head coach for the Detroit Lions January 14, Years with Lions: 2 2014. Years as NFL Head Coach: 5 ¾ In 14 NFL seasons, Caldwell has worked on coaching Years in NFL: 15 staffs that have led teams to 12 winning seasons and only once finished below .500. Overall, Caldwell’s teams he coached for have compiled a 149-75 regular season record, along with 12 playoff appearances, eight division FIRST SEASON IN DETROIT titles, three conference championships and two Super By finishing the year with an 11-5 regular season record, Bowl wins. Head Coach Jim Caldwell tied Potsy Clark (1931, ¾ Coached in three Super Bowls with Indianapolis (XLI and Portsmouth Spartans) for the most wins in franchise history XLIV) and Baltimore (XLVII) and won two Super Bowl by a coach in his first year with the club. titles (Indianapolis and Baltimore). ¾ Caldwell is the third coach in team history to lead the ¾ In first year as head coach for Indianapolis (2009), he won Lions to the playoffs in his first year with Detroit (George the AFC Championship and led the franchise to Super Wilson in 1957; Bobby Ross in 1997). Bowl XLIV. He became the first NFL coach to win his first ¾ He is the seventh coach in franchise history (since 1930) 14 games and the fifth rookie head coach to reach the to lead the Lions to a winning record (entire season) in Super Bowl. his first year with the club. ¾ One of four head coaches to produce 24+ regular-season ¾ In four years as an NFL head coach, Caldwell has led a wins and a Super Bowl berth in their first two career team to 11+ wins twice (14 with Indianapolis in 2009). seasons as head coach. ¾ With 11 wins this season, Caldwell has won 10+ games ¾ Holds a 39-34 (.534) regular-season record in fve for the third time in four seasons as a head coach in seasons as an NFL head coach, including three seasons the NFL, including 14-2 in 2009 and 10-6 in 2010 with with at least 10 wins. Indianapolis; 11-5 in 2014 with Detroit. ¾ In eight of the 10 seasons Caldwell coached in Indianapolis, the Colts ranked in the Top-10 in total Lions Leaders, Most Wins in Head Coach’s First Year offense eight times and six times in the Top-5. Rk Coach Year G W L T ¾ From 2003-09, Caldwell was the Colts quarterbacks 1t Potsy Clark 1931* 14 11 3 0 coach and was also promoted to assistant head coach 1t Jim Caldwell 2014 16 11 5 0 and associate head coach during that time. He worked 3 Bobby Ross 1997 16 9 7 0 4 George Wilson 1957 12 8 4 0 closely with QB Peyton Manning and the team’s 5t Dutch Clark 1937 11 7 4 0 quarterbacks. During that span, Indianapolis set NFL 5t Buddy Parker 1951 12 7 4 1 records with seven consecutive seasons finishing with 7 Gus Henderson 1939 11 6 5 0 11+ wins (6, Dallas 1976-81) and 12+ victories (4, Dallas, * Portsmouth Spartans (1930-33) 1992-95). ¾ Two of his quarterbacks, Manning (Super Bowl XLI) and Lions Leaders, Playoff Berths in Head Coach’s 1st Season Ravens QB Joe Flacco (Super Bowl XLVII) were named Year W L T Head Coach Finish Super Bowl MVPs following their teams’ respective 1957 8 4 0 G. Wilson 1st in NFL Western Conference championship runs. 1997 9 7 0 B. Ross 3rd in NFC Central; Wild Card 2014 11 5 0 J. Caldwell 2nd NFC North; Wild Card CALDWELL’S HEAD COACHING RECORD ¾ Caldwell is one of four coaches (Potsy Clark in 1931, REGULAR SEASON George Wilson in 1962 and Wayne Fontes in 1991) to Year Team G W L T Pct Result lead the Lions to 11+ wins in a season. 2009 Ind 16 14 2 0 .875 1st AFC South 2010 Ind 16 10 6 0 .625 1st AFC South Lions Leaders, Single-Season Wins by Head Coach 2011 Ind 16 2 14 0 .125 4th AFC South Rk Year G W L T Head Coach 2014 Det 16 11 5 0 .688 2nd NFC North 1 1991 16 12 4 0 Wayne Fontes 2015 Det 9 2 7 0 .222 - 2t 1931* 14 11 3 0 Potsy Clark Totals 73 39 34 0 .534 2t 1962 14 11 3 0 George Wilson POSTSEASON Year Team G W L T Pct Playoff Berth 2t 2014 16 11 5 0 Jim Caldwell 2009 Ind 3 2 1 0 .667 Super Bowl XLIV * Portsmouth Spartans 2010 Ind 1 0 1 0 .000 AFC Wild Card 2014 Det 1 0 1 0 .000 NFC Wild Card Totals 5 2 3 0 .400 OVERALL G W L T Pct Regular Season 73 39 34 0 .534 Postseason 5 2 3 0 .400 Totals 78 41 37 0 .526 DETROIT LIONS GAME INFORMATION LAST TIME THEY MET 2015 SEASON LEADERS DET OAK Cmp.