Lions defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham looks at Nick Fairley and regrets not stepping in before the talented defensive tackle got himself in trouble with a pair of offseason arrests. "The disappointment that I have is that I bogged myself down in so much paperwork that I didn't see that coming," Cunningham told the Detroit Free Press. "And I should have seen it. With my experience, I should have understood." He's been in the NFL in 19 of the past 20 seasons, and he's come across men in that time who were far worse off than Fairley. "I'll give you one example, Dan Saleaumua," Cunningham said, referring to the Lions' seventh-round pick in 1987 who resurrected his career in Kansas City. "(The Lions) threw him out. He went to the Pro Bowl for me. Now he has a chain of, I think, 55 drug stores ... and he runs them like a football team, and he's worth a lot of money. We didn't give up on him."