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Detroit Lions signing Danny Amendola ho-hum but necessary. Here’s why

Danny Amendola.

This is the player the Detroit Lions are replacing Golden Tate with? An older, much-less productive version of Tate?

Amendola turns 34 before Thanksgiving. He’s never had 700 receiving yards in a season and hasn’t had more than 65 catches in a season since 2010.

The free-agent signing period starts Wednesday. So the Lions getting Amendola on Monday is a little like hoping you get an amazing new video game for Christmas, only to find out you get to open one present early and it turns out to be a pair of socks.