Lions receiver Roy Williams, speaking to a Detroit radio station this week, was asked why former Lions quarterback Jeff Garcia struggled there. He responded by criticizing Garcia's handling of certain situations. "He blamed everybody but himself," said Williams, who was in his second year in the league in 2005. "I respected the man. I just didn't like the fact that it would be (the receivers') fault and never his fault. It's always the receivers' fault." Williams downplayed Garcia's command of the West Coast offense, saying, "My son can run the West Coast system, and he's only 2." Asked Wednesday to respond, Garcia said: "As a quarterback, you're always shouldering the blame. I had no problem absorbing whatever it was that I had to absorb. ... We play this game as a team, and everybody's responsible and everybody has to have accountability. That's where I felt that, at times, there wasn't a whole lot of accountability among everyone in that locker room."

Lions' running back Kevin Jones will get his first start of the season Sunday against the Buccaneers. Jones missed the first two games of the season recovering from a foot injury but has had at least 10 carries in each of the past two games.

There have been persistent rumors in the past week the Lions would be willing to deal running back Tatum Bell. The Lions just don't run the ball much, and with Kevin Jones and T.J. Duckett in the mix, Bell could be available.