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00:00But Lions currently sit as the one seed in the NFC again ton of football to be played still got a lot of games to go
00:08We said we'd start at the end
00:12And we all knew eventually there would be a pressure Jake Bates field goal
00:18We all knew eventually
00:20that
00:21This guy who was that you know been working extremely hard. We've been out there practice tons of kicks first guy out
00:29Sometimes I saw he was the last guy off, but there was a lot of just work being put in
00:35to what appeared to be the thing with Jake Bates was
00:39Absolute you know he could nuke it. He could be good out to 60. We saw it in the UFL and
00:46But it was accuracy can he dial it in can he be accurate?
00:51Right this is all new to him. Yeah, and can he handle the stage like that's another big part of this is
00:56can you handle the stage and
00:59They put faith in their guy
01:01You know when they started taking a knee and saying we're gonna play for the field goal
01:06It wasn't like the shortest field goal ever, but it's totally makeable by an NFL kicker
01:12Sure, it is
01:13But it's beyond the distance that you see for an extra points and you for an extra point you see plenty kickers missing extra points
01:20You still had that
01:22Feeling inside like I don't I don't know I trust this yeah, but they trusted it
01:26Yeah, and that's and that's why you have a kicker. I mean you you have to trust your kicker on your roster
01:34To drill it from inside of 50 and when you get beyond 50. It's it's less of a you know what they did
01:40But today's NFL it seems like it's almost a certainty now anything inside of 55. They treated that situation
01:46Like they had faith in their kicker. Yes, they treated that situation
01:50Like they had you know peak Mason Crosby or somebody like they had a guy that they knew would make that kick
01:56That's how they treated this situation, okay, we got all the yardage we need we made it down to the 26
02:02We're a 44 yard field goal
02:06We know our guys gonna make it that's how they treated it and until you see him in that situation
02:13Look they they acted like they knew they had enough and
02:17Certainly, it's not about the distance
02:20But the further out you are
02:23the the less
02:25Angle, you know the you have you have you have to be more perfect
02:28The further flight of the ball, you know, if it's off by a couple of degrees one way or the other it's gonna sail wide
02:35So, you know the further the ball has to travel the greater chance for him to miss right or left
02:42The distance isn't the issue was are you know and and there's your pressure like that's that's a pressure kick
02:48That's not a gimme kick by any stretch of the imagination on the road hostile environment
02:53For the win, it's perfect conditions, but you expect a good NFL kicker to make that that kick and
03:01as we felt our way through this situation and tried navigated it Jake Bates came through and
03:08the Lions acted as if they had their guy and
03:13Based upon this it looks like they might I mean, you know, he's been great and
03:18some of the extra points
03:20You're like was that good he's had if he's had more than a few extra points where they have been
03:26Sailing and mostly it seems like wide, right, but they sneak through the up light
03:31He just tucks it right inside the upright and it's good
03:33And I'm sure his plan is to go right down the middle on every kick
03:37But it feels like I somebody's kicks like it's about velocity more than anything else
03:42So I kick it hard enough and fast enough
03:45The distance isn't gonna catch up to me because the ball's just gonna shoot through the uprights before he has a chance to go
03:49Squirrelly. Yep, but he's been he's been money. He's been absolute money this year
03:55Was he 10 for 10 now with field goals on the season? Yep
03:59I think he missed one extra point maybe yep, but he's been fantastic and what a situation we put into
04:06Yep, the test your metal
04:08Now hysterically, I just did something like I've done all the time and it's the Houston Oilers move to Tennessee
04:13They play Tennessee this weekend not Houston. I have Houston a couple weeks
04:17Don't make that mistake, but it's kind of like Houston the Houston Astros being in the American League
04:22there's some things I'm never getting used to but
04:25Sorry, they don't play Texas for a couple weeks, but that will be a big game
04:29They get there, but don't put the cart in front of the horse. I got Tennessee this weekend at home at one o'clock
04:34But anyway back to the back to the Bates thing like that's a it's a big kick for the game
04:40But it's also a big kick for the season
04:42like the next time he's out there, he'll know he can do it and
04:46you know, there's there's short-term prognosis and there's long-term prognosis and
04:52There's short-term solutions, but there's long-term solutions. I feel better about Jake Bates today
04:57I think all of Detroit feels better about Jake Bates today
05:00And he got a game ball and he was up there in front of the team
05:03I always think it's weird for kickers because they're just cut from a different cloth
05:07They don't they're not the same
05:10They're not anywhere close to what the rest of the team
05:12Their job is what they do what they look like and he got up there and he said hey, man
05:16Thank you for the opportunity and great job by the offense to get it down there and the whole the whole
05:21Snap spot operation like he thanked everybody in the locker room
05:25But that's a big moment for Jake Bates
05:27That's a big moment for this lion season is to have him come through with a pressure kick. Yeah
05:32No, it was big glad to see it
05:34I had a not my my stomach watching the game in the last five minutes of the game and
05:39Please God get the ball back in an opportunity to win, but
05:43It was interesting watching how golf handled things. He really did have one final point on Bates
05:49Yeah, he had a great quote afterwards and it just made me laugh. He said 18 months ago. I was selling bricks in Houston
05:58Gotta make a living