Detroit Lions Player on Foxborough: "It's a Weird Place"

Don’t count Detroit safety Glover Quin as a fan of Foxborough.

With the Patriotrs’ stellar home record since moving into Gillette Stadium in 2002, Quin says there is something else helping the Patriots gain success at home.

“Foxboro’s a weird place,” Quin told the Detroit Free-Press. “You go up there and you’re in a hotel and then you got to drive through like back woods to get there and then all of a sudden a stadium appears like it seems like in people’s backyard and it’s like, just a weird place out there. And they love it. They play great there. I’ve never won there. I’ve played there three or four times, I’ve never won there. It’s tough to win there.”

“I just know you’re going through like the back woods, and you’re just like, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to?’ And then all of a sudden it’s like you see like a little trailer park or something like that, and then all of a sudden you see the stadium, you’re like ‘Whoa, right in the backyard?’” Quin said. “It’s weird out there. It’s weird out there, I can’t even lie.”

Quin added that the crowd plays a role too, knowing when to be quiet and when to be loud.

”That the crowd is so silent on offense and Tom Brady is able to really control the offense as opposed to having to signal a lot,” Quin said. “Look at a TV copy of a home game from New England and just listen, you can hear everything that he’s saying.”

Quin and the rest of the Lions will have to make that trip though the backwoods of North Street this Sunday when they come to Foxborough to play the Patriots.

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