John Maakaron reviews the main takeaways of the Detroit Lions dominant 42-24 win against Carolina Panthers.
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00:00 The Lions get sweet revenge against the Carolina Panthers
00:03 in week five, defeating the Panthers at Ford Field.
00:06 John, what do you make of that?
00:08 - Yeah, Vito, real interesting.
00:10 Obviously the Detroit Lions went into the game
00:12 having some players, some key players,
00:15 not available with Amon Ross St. Brown,
00:17 Brian Branch being unavailable due to injury.
00:20 And Vito, quite frankly, this is a football team now
00:23 that has learned to win and went into that contest
00:26 week five against a team they were quite frankly better than
00:29 and Dan Campbell's squad played well.
00:31 They hustled, they were able to score over 40 points
00:34 and really took it to a team that they were better than.
00:37 A revenge game.
00:38 Last year, the Panthers really took it to the Lions
00:41 at Bank of America Stadium and the Lions this year
00:44 really took advantage of the fact that
00:46 Frank Reich has a rookie quarterback
00:48 and really the Panthers made a lot of mistakes on Sunday.
00:51 They turned the football over multiple times.
00:53 Bryce Young also threw an interception to Jerry Jacobs
00:56 and Miles Sanders put the football on the turf
00:59 and the Detroit Lions simply capitalized.
01:01 You saw an amazing one-handed interception
01:04 by Aiden Hutchinson and you saw the Detroit Lions
01:07 take advantage of their mismatches.
01:10 David Montgomery, really one of the quality free agent
01:13 signings the Lions had at the running back spot.
01:15 He was able to scamper early for a touchdown
01:18 that got the crowd into it.
01:19 And Jared Goff played one of his best games
01:21 in a Lions uniform.
01:23 So Vito, when you have a Detroit Lions football team
01:26 that was three and one going into the game
01:28 and they had added motivation
01:30 and they played a really clean game,
01:32 you saw a football team now
01:34 that has really supreme confidence
01:37 and knows that if they play to their capabilities
01:40 on both sides of the football,
01:42 not only can they win games, Vito,
01:44 but they can dominate well over the last couple of games,
01:48 not keeping it close,
01:49 matching up against their opposition.
01:51 This is NFL football.
01:52 Most games tend to end up being seven point games,
01:55 but for the last couple of weeks,
01:57 the Detroit Lions have dominated.
01:59 And it just goes to show you that the roster
02:01 has taken the identity of their head coach
02:03 and they're handling their business.
02:05 - John, thanks for on the inside.