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00:00The Lions are staying ahead of the pack
00:04Not the Green Bay Packers, but the pack of teams behind them
00:08which happens to include the Green Bay Packers and
00:12Are they gonna be able to fend everybody off?
00:14We can talk and we do talk at great length about the importance of home field. I
00:20Mean the Lions last year
00:22Finally won a playoff game
00:24for the second time in my life
00:27They won a playoff game and
00:30They did but they did it at home. Then they won a second playoff game at home
00:33Then they went on the road lost now. They've gone on the road and beaten quality teams this year
00:38Which is reassuring that if if it's too much if it's too big of an ask to keep winning
00:47With a depleted defensive roster, it's too big of an ask
00:51For them to fend off everybody and win the top seed
00:56But they have to go on the road at some point
00:59Can they get the job done?
01:02You know you look back at wins that have aged very well
01:05They went on the road and they beat the Vikings at the time. They were they were five and out
01:09So I don't even know the Cardinals win is one that aged pretty well
01:12They've won at Green Bay. They've won at Houston
01:16The Lions have won at Houston
01:18One actually Arizona is just on the edge of a playoff, but they're half game behind Washington
01:25What a Green Bay one of Minnesota. I mean is this is so they've proven that they can go on the road and beat playoff-caliber teams
01:33They've won at Minnesota
01:35They've won at Houston
01:37They've won at Minnesota
01:39They've won at Minnesota
01:41They've won at Minnesota
01:43They've won at Minnesota
01:45you just
01:47don't want to have to and
01:50whether or not yesterday showed some vulnerabilities in terms of
01:54You know
01:55Just this this team has vulnerabilities or yesterday was all about injuries
02:02They are being tested
02:05They are being tested and
02:08You know, I've said it throughout this great stretch of football
02:13Seasons are long lots can change
02:17The concern now is what's changed is the last play of the game yesterday on my count
02:23They had four starters defensively on the field that were starters at the beginning of the year for
02:31Lee McNeil
02:33Jack Campbell Brian branch Kirby Joseph
02:37Those are guys at the top of the depth chart at the beginning of the year
02:40Now given Zaria Smith
02:43Check that there's five Terry on Arnold was on a field as well. Zaria Smith starting caliber player. They acquired during the season
02:50but there were guys like
02:53Mohammed
02:55project Martin Khalil Dorsey Ezekiel Turner amik Robertson
03:00like their depth is seriously getting tested and
03:04then and like project Martin
03:07Looking at the snap counts
03:10According to the official stats project Martin played two snaps
03:16And you know what they were
03:18They're actually the last three plays of the game
03:20One of them didn't count because it was a race by penalty
03:22then he was on the field for the last two plays of the game project Martin and
03:27I mean you talk about trying to find a way to make it happen
03:34You got to find a way to win games and Dan Campbell talked about it afterwards the injuries he's like nobody cares
03:42Nobody cares
03:43He's not he's not buying into any of it
03:48He's not gonna talk about it. He's not gonna dwell on it. I
03:52Mean personally, I kind of like it
03:55Because I think it sends a message to his team. That's our job to talk about it
04:00Again according to this the stats project Martin's first two snaps of the
04:08season
04:09Well the last two plays at that game yesterday
04:13That tells you where they are in terms of in terms of depth in terms of injuries
04:20Got the job done
04:22With some help from the Bears, but they got the job done
04:27Two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven people lining up want to talk to you. It's Carson Anderson. We got open lines
04:33Can they get it done our vulnerabilities being exposed?
04:37Can they keep winning?
04:40With a depleted roster without eight defensive linemen without Alex Anzalone
04:46Rodrigo is a very scary possibility that he's gonna be done for a while
04:50Can they keep winning this way?
04:52The next two games are going to be telling Green Bay and Buffalo