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00:00Look, I think there's a world where they watch that football game and said we're the best team in the NFC as is
00:06Hutchinson we went into Minnesota won the game. We're the better team. We can beat him again
00:10We can beat anybody in the NFC in a playoff game
00:12We are every bit in the Super Bowl with the roster currently constructed
00:16What I would say is give yourself a better chance to win
00:19Yeah, like don't make it so the offense has to be dominant early in the year. They won a couple games with their defense
00:25I'd love to go in the playoffs knowing they did everything they could to position this team to win a
00:30Super Bowl because if you play my homes
00:32You don't want to say we got to blitz them 60% of the time or we can't win
00:34I'd hate going in with only one way to win that Super Bowl
00:38Yeah, and and you're right, you know, I think it'll alleviate some pressure some from some other areas and let's be honest
00:44I mean Jared Goff isn't gonna go the next
00:4611 games completing 80% of his past
00:49You know
00:53Completion in the first half
00:55I'm not gonna hold him to that standard for the rest of the season and it's he's gonna have a game
00:59Where you know, the other team just has a good plan and you got to figure out you got to go win a dogfight
01:03You know, maybe 20 to 17 type of game, right?
01:06But you're right if you if you if you help that defense out a little bit more you do bring in a little bit of
01:11Help that that will alleviate the pressure to say, okay
01:13We don't need you guys to be perfect to go win these games, right and Jared Goff has been
01:19Phenomenal. I mean he has been so so good
01:22He has been one of the I think the best quarterback in the NFL over the past
01:26Three or four games, right? I don't think that's an overstatement. I don't think that's breaking news
01:30I think most of us feel that way we threw out three letters. I
01:34At this point of the season MVP, I think so too who has the better case nobody
01:39He's on arguably the best team
01:41The only team that you would say is better is Kansas City, but Mahomes isn't playing. They're not winning because he's been Mahomes
01:47They're home defense. I think more seven interceptions more picks than touchdowns. I think yeah, I mean it's throw more picks to nose guards and
01:56Yeah
01:57Phenomenal player right but the way that Jared Goff is playing you I mean I thought about that last night too. I'm like this guy
02:03has legit
02:05MVP candidate type of type of play right because it's ego less selfless football
02:09he doesn't care if he throws the ball two yards behind the line of scrimmage to
02:13Gibbs or Montgomery or if he's going deep to J Mo like he's gonna take
02:19What the defense is giving him and he's but he's also made very accurate throws in tight windows
02:25Where you see J Mo or it's Tim Patrick or it's a Mon Ross a brown
02:30Khalif Raymond when you've got to make a throw that only your guy can get he's been accurate on those as well
02:36Yeah, and he's and he's not trying to the one Tampa get Tampa game
02:40He was trying to force the ball clearly Dom and Ross ain't wrong. Yeah, right
02:44I think that he realized and I think the offensive realized that
02:48Dude, like we have so many other weapons if it turns out to be a game like where Dom and Ross
02:53Maybe gets three catches. So be it. We have we got other guys that can pick up a slack yesterday
02:58Jameson Williams, I mean
03:00The one catch that was kind of the behind deal four yards behind line of scrimmage
03:04Okay, we're gonna have games where maybe the deep shot to him aren't available, you know, we got other guys
03:07We got a target Khalif Raymond
03:09I mean it came up huge on that drive with two
03:11two catches on big third downs and then the you know
03:14The the touchdown on the third down was was massive and I think Jared Goff is starting to play that way where he knows
03:19He doesn't have to force the ball to one guy or two guys
03:21I think he knows that with the weapons with the system that they run with the
03:26Matchups at that that they can get formationally
03:28That he all he's got to do is just get the ball to his playmakers and let them make plays
03:33Let them make plays. Yeah ticket texture says that was the perfect
03:37Type of football game one where you win
03:40But also where it's clear you still need to address the deal and you didn't want to have to have that
03:44Revelation in a loss you wanted to have that revelation in a win. I think that's really well said
03:49TJ we talked about the fake punt and it would have been such a bigger story if they lost the game
03:53It's hardly come up today. Yeah, what did you think of it? I
03:58Thought it was odd
04:01Yeah, if it's fourth and one fourth and two, you know, maybe I think it was a fourth and eight, right
04:08And running a speed option, you know
04:16It felt at the moment desperate like okay, man, we know you know, it is a tough team
04:21We're gonna have to maximize possessions where in reality you didn't I mean, you know, you were better team than Minnesota
04:28I think it was clear after the end of the game, but
04:31Yeah, I didn't
04:34Because I really didn't want to have to ask coach. Yeah
04:36Because to me it showed some doubt like it you do it against, Kansas City
04:40And I've said this all day today you do it against Kansas City
04:43And I think everybody going to the game thought Kansas City is a better team
04:46you're gonna have to steal a possession or you've got to do something outside the box and
04:52Then this year with this team the roster the way the offense is operating I just felt like it was an unnecessary risk
04:59Yeah, it just to me. It was a bad decision. I'm not gonna call it reckless
05:03I just thought it was a bad decision. I did too. Yeah, I
05:06Didn't like it. I
05:09Don't think you think that that type of game they may have to steal a possession
05:12No, no defenses under man
05:14My early at that position and the play itself like you guys tell me you guys have been in install meetings
05:19Like typically a fake putt you're looking for a matchup a key something pre snap. Yeah
05:24Yeah, what was the look that gave them the green light to do? Yeah, that's that's interesting
05:28I wonder if coach will you know?
05:30Maybe talk about that this week because you're right it seemed like as soon as the ball was snapped
05:34They they were all over so to knew exactly
05:36It's usually a number count and or it's two guys outside the tackle or it's three guys
05:40And whatever the number count that you feel like you have an advantage. That's when it triggers
05:46Yeah, the the call and it's in the moment
05:49I'm actually curious if that one wasn't called by FIPP
05:53It's they've given the the special teams the the ability to do that
05:57If there was just a they missed a guy in the number count and it was just a bad call on the field
06:01Yeah, and coach isn't gonna throw any of the guys under the bus
06:04We know that but um, I wouldn't be shocked if that was one where you say, okay
06:09With probably a look we should have killed it
06:12You know what?
06:13My guys under the bus, but probably not the look we wanted to run that one into and yeah
06:17He's probably bummed too that he had to waste one
06:20That now everybody's seeing that ended up not working
06:23But you know good thing they good thing they were able to overcome that because you're right
06:27I think that would have been a big big question mark if that game goes the other way
06:30Well, you mentioned it right away. You're downtown. Nothing. You're on the road. You're missing Aiden. Everybody's going
06:35Oh, no, this could really snowball but this team a testament they rallied they overcame it. They were resilient
06:41You said rebound I think was your word
06:42They rebounded even late in the game David Montgomery who is as dependable a rock as this offense has he fumbles the football
06:49They give up a touchdown
06:50They're losing on the road and their rock is the guy that gives the ball up and it didn't break him
06:56Yep, did you really I mean to your point all three phases from that moment on bucked up stepped up and the Lions beat the
07:02Best team in the NFC. Yeah in the highest pressure pressure situations offense. We need a two-minute drill defense defense
07:09They get a first down man, we're not getting this ball back to our offense and for all three phases to come through in
07:16Literally the highest pressure situation you got to go make plays their key key guys all found ways to make plays