some experience on this front weighed in on the dispute Wednesday. Barry Sanders also had to pay back bonus money when he retired and stayed away from the Lions for years before returning to work

There are two games on Sunday pinning undefeated teams against one another.One of them will take place in Detroit when the Lions host the Chiefs at Ford Field. The Lions have won back-to-back games by three points after tying the Cardinals in the season opener Luke Willson Jersey White , which has some talking about this week as a measuring stick for how good they might be this season.Defensive lineman Trey Flowers said that the Lions “understand the challenge that’s coming in,” but doesn’t feel the team has to make “too many statements.” Head coach Matt Patricia would likely agree with that as he’s not putting any special significance on this game.“Every week is important,” Patricia said, via the . “There’s nothing more to that. Just our biggest game is this game because it’s our next game. We’ll always just kind of try to keep it that perspective so that — we just want to go out and perform well. That’s the bottom line.”A win over the Chiefs wouldn’t count for more than a win over the Dolphins in the standings http://www.lionslockerroom.com/authentic-kenny-golladay-jersey , but it would certainly lift outside opinions of the Lions to a new height. Wide receiver Calvin Johnson and the Lions have been on bad terms since the team required him to return a portion of his signing bonus when he retired after the 2015 season, but Lions president Rod Wood recently said that repairing that relationship is a “top priority.”Johnson has said that “the only way they’re going to get me back is they put that money back in my pocket” and another former Lion with some experience on this front weighed in on the dispute Wednesday. Barry Sanders also had to pay back bonus money when he retired and stayed away from the Lions for years before returning to work as an ambassador for the franchise in 2017.Sanders believes that things will eventually thaw between Johnson and the team, but doesn’t have advice about how to speed up that process.“Hey, that’s a tough check to write Womens Calvin Johnson Jersey ,” Sanders said, via the . “In the NFL you realize it’s a business and they have to handle things on their side of it the way that they do. So I don’t have any advice other than I think over time then you’ll probably see the two sides come together. You think they’d be able to reach some agreement. But I wish Calvin well. We’d love to have him back around, especially the fans, what have you.”Making Johnson an offer to be paid in an ambassador role similar to the one Sanders holds could be one way to mend the fences in Detroit.