{"id":255613,"date":"2025-08-02T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255613\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T09:47:11","slug":"lions-news-why-ahmed-hassanein-cried-before-preseason-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/255613\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions News: Why Ahmed Hassanein cried before preseason game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"9IGX9L\">One of the biggest factors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a>\u2019 resurgence over the past few years has been changing the culture.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lVyeNX\">It\u2019s been about finding guys who care about one another, respect the game, and truly love football. It appears they\u2019ve yet again struck gold with Detroit Lions rookie Ahmed Hassanein.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Dt2fMj\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox2detroit.com\/video\/1682568\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking with reporters<\/a> following the Lions\u2019 unfortunate 34-7 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boltsfromtheblue.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>, the defensive lineman explained how the experience made him emotional.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Ay2xFa\">\u201cI\u2019m just so grateful and honored to just be in this building and be in this position,\u201d he said. \u201cI know we didn\u2018t accomplish what we wanted to but there\u2019s a lot to learn from, but it felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"E7m7t9\">While the Lions didn\u2019t walk away with a win, the sixth-round pick out of Boise State had a solid debut, tallying four tackles and almost his first sack.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bBqlYZ\">\u201cIt felt really good to be out there \u2014 it was almost a disbelief for me,\u201d he said. \u201cI cried in the beginning of the game, just because I couldn\u2019t believe it. For someone like me that came so far and went through what I went through just to be here. .. I soaked in this moment and man, just looking at the field, I\u2019m like, wow, I\u2019m literally playing in an NFL football game right now.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Z09Lea\">Hassanein said at the end of the day, it\u2019s about doing the absolute best he can for his team.<\/p>\n<p id=\"kk0C2z\">\u201cI love this team. This team works really, really hard and they believe in me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"xb1LEY\">Sheesh. I think we can all take a few pointers in practicing gratitude from this guy.<\/p>\n<p id=\"a7AMzt\">And onto the rest of your notes.<\/p>\n<p>Some post-game coverage from other outlets AFTER you\u2019ve read ours:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight&#8217;s postgame process has been less than ideal, but here&#8217;s what came out of the Lions locker room after the Hall of Fame game: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PLGNaLbhIY\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/PLGNaLbhIY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Rogers | Detroit Football Network (@Justin_Rogers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Justin_Rogers\/status\/1951168838671720754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest factors in the Detroit Lions\u2019 resurgence over the past few years has been changing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2524,6421,3663,50588,146,153,4391,23618,7,29,853,2525,147,88,6,152,11520,151,1853],"class_list":{"0":"post-255613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ahmed","9":"tag-before","10":"tag-category-daily-links","11":"tag-cried","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-lions-news","14":"tag-detroit-lions-notes","15":"tag-detroit-lions-preseason","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-front-page","18":"tag-game","19":"tag-hassanein","20":"tag-lions","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nfl","23":"tag-of","24":"tag-preseason","25":"tag-pride","26":"tag-why"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114958542003497634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}