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Detroit Lions returner: I would have fired myself if the punter stopped me... again

Jamal Agnew wasn’t going to let it happen for the third straight game.

The Detroit Lions' return man wasn’t going to get stopped by a kicker.

Because if he did, he wouldn’t have been able to forgive himself.

“Oh, two weeks in a row I got tackled by the kicker,” Agnew said with a smile Saturday, “so I couldn’t let it happen a third time in a row. I would have fired myself, to be honest.”

With 9:38 left in the third quarter of the Lions’ 47-7 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Saturday, Bradley Pinion punted 49 yards to the Detroit 26 near the sideline, where Agnew fielded the punt.