It’s been a while since a former Michigan Wolverines quarterback came back as a pro to hand the Lions a defeat. Elvis Grbac did it decades ago. Tom Brady used to do it regularly, but his last visit was in 2020, when he was steering the Bucccaneers in a Super Bowl season.

On Sunday, Brady was in the broadcast booth at Ford Field as his latest Wolverines successor, J.J. McCarthy, got his Detroit pro debut . And if folks around here somehow thought McCarthy being injured all of last year, as well as out the last five games, would somehow mean the Lions would have an easy time with him, well, you don’t know J.J. McCarthy.

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