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Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford practiced Wednesday with what appeared to be a one-fingered glove.

(Kyle Meinke | MLive.com)

ALLEN PARK -- Matthew Stafford clearly didn't like his glove options against Chicago. He fiddled and fiddled and fiddled some more. He tried on at least four during the game, then another on his offhand before ripping that one off and chucking it into the offensive backfield.

He wasn't comfortable.

But now he's had a few days to experiment, and what the Lions have come up with is pretty interesting.

Stafford was seen practicing Wednesday with what appeared to be a black, one-fingered glove made by Nike. There also appeared to be some white tape wrapped near the tip of the middle finger.

"Still kind of working on it," Stafford said before practice. "Threw a little bit in the walk through, still working on it, figuring out what's going to be best come Sunday."

Whatever setup he had seemed to work for him. Stafford took his usual diet of reps during the 20 minutes open to the media, and threw to a variety of wideouts. His short passes were crisp and on line, then he stretched out to about 40 yards before practice was closes to reporters.

Matthew Stafford practicing with what appears to be a 1-fingered glove. No Riddick or Ansah. Zenner practicing in red jersey pic.twitter.com/WySh06DB1U — Kyle Meinke (@kmeinke) December 14, 2016

Stafford suffered the injury when he clapped the middle finger of his throwing hand on Chicago's Leonard Floyd while attempting a pass in Sunday's win. He dislocated the finger and tore ligaments according to multiple reports, and his velocity and accuracy became issues.

His completed just 15 of 28 passes after the injury, attempted only 12 passes overall in the second half and two of them were picked off.

But Stafford's velocity and accuracy seemed to be fine Wednesday. His passing was crisp and on the mark. There was no discernible difference between what he did Wednesday with the one-fingered glove, and an ordinary day of practice, though it's also important to note there was no defense either.

Detroit practiced indoors because the outside fields were hit hard by snow over the weekend, but the club dropped temperatures in the facility to what seemed to be the 40s or 50s, which is the forecast for Sunday's game in New York. Stafford seemed unaffected.

"It's going to be what it's going to be," Stafford said of the weather. "I don't know. I'm not a weatherman. But we'll see when we get there. If we need to make an adjustment, we'll make an adjustment. If not, we'll just go out there and battle through it like everybody else is and try to play as well as we can."

That's the good news. The bad news is running back Theo Riddick (wrist), center Travis Swanson (brain) and defensive end Ezekiel Ansah (shoulder) all missed practice.