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00:00The Detroit Lions went out and were forced to sign Jamal Adams, safety.
00:08Outside linebacker Quan Alexander, defensive tackle Miles Adams, like,
00:13and these guys might have to play Thursday in a massive game.
00:19And they keep having to get guys off the street.
00:21David Long was just signed is going to have to play in this massive game.
00:27Well, David Long played a lot last week.
00:28He did. And it's.
00:32You know, the the word that we used and I used a lot on Friday
00:36and we've used it a lot leading up to this is tolerances.
00:40Like you hear it in engineering.
00:42This defense can only take so many injuries, I'm sure they keep winning.
00:50But it feels like the defense, unfortunately,
00:51starting to slip back a little bit towards what it was last year.
00:54Now, that doesn't mean they can't win at all.
00:56And injuries are part of the game and other teams have them, too.
01:00But man, like Green Bay, this is going to be a way different challenge
01:03than when you had a more closer to a full complement of players
01:05when they played up at Green Bay.
01:07Well, I told you last week I didn't feel chesty about the game against the Bears.
01:10I thought they'd win.
01:11But covering, I didn't think that was going to happen at halftime.
01:15It was amazing when you look at what was going on.
01:17I mean, the stats at halftime,
01:20I mean, the Lions were up 16 to nothing.
01:24The time of possession was 2254 in favor of the Lions
01:29to just seven minutes for the Bears.
01:31The first downs lines and 18 first downs in the first half.
01:35The Bears had to, by the way, 18.
01:38Think about that.
01:39That's a ton.
01:40Certainly the week before where they were damn near perfect.
01:43They had like 36 or something.
01:44They were on that pace.
01:47Totally yards in the first half.
01:48The Lions had 279, so on pace for well over 500 yards.
01:52The Bears had 53 yards in offense in the first half.
01:56The rushing total lines had 145 in the first half.
01:59The Bears only had 19 in the first half.
02:03It was dominating without dominating the scoreboard.
02:06It was it was still a two score game at 16.
02:08Nothing because the Lions missed opportunities and they actually missed
02:10a field goal.
02:12The second half was a little disturbing
02:15to see that they were not able to move the ball as well.
02:20And more importantly, they weren't able to stop.
02:22And maybe it was just because the guys gave it all they had in the first half.
02:27And either the Bears figured some things out or guys got tired or whatever,
02:31but the Bears started to present an offense to the point
02:34where they had a chance to win the game in the last drive of the game and
02:39whatever the hell that happened with the coach and the quarterback,
02:42not on the same page or they actually were on the same page,
02:45which was we're not going to use our time out, which was moronic.
02:48But the Lions benefit that the game ended with the ball
02:51landing harmlessly to the ground.
02:53There's a series of mistakes that led up to that.
02:55That last drive, they burned two timeouts before they even got to that,
02:58which kind of put them behind the eight ball and they were burned.
03:01One of them was taken when they were snapping with one on the play clock
03:04and they did get the snap off.
03:05He refused, didn't think they would.
03:07He took a timeout.
03:08The other was taken earlier in the drive
03:09because remember, they were backed up in the shadows of their own goalposts.
03:12That happening.
03:13What we have full complement of timeouts that happening once.
03:16OK, happening twice the second time, like no excuse for it.
03:20You're talking about, though, a rookie quarterback.
03:22And that's why those timeouts are even more important.
03:23And that's why let's say it's a solid plan not to use your time out.
03:27It's third and twenty six.
03:29You have the interesting challenge of not likely to get a first down
03:33and the Lions are going to try and keep you from going out of bounds.
03:36So you want to keep the time out to run the play,
03:38to be able to take the time out and try the game tying field goal,
03:42which can't spike it because it's going to be fourth down.
03:45Like, but that's why you have to take the time out
03:48because you have a rookie quarterback.
03:50And no matter what, no matter how good he is, a rookie isn't going to execute
03:54that nearly as well as a veteran.
03:57And then he's up there trying to change the play and he doesn't have time for that.
03:59And so.
04:01You know, I mean, Heber Floos, if if it weren't like the last draft,
04:05there weren't already catastrophic end of game mistakes, he might survive it.
04:09But well, I think he would have survived.
04:12Yeah, he may have survived not getting fired during this season.
04:14I think would have fired after the season because his record is the worst
04:17in football during the span that he's been a head coach.
04:20But he. I thought after the game.
04:26That if I were a member of the Bears, I'd be so pissed at my head coach
04:29for not calling time out that I would I was surprised that
04:34that he made it onto the plane to fly back to Chicago with the team.
04:37Like this was something that I would have said, you know what?
04:39Why don't you hold back?
04:40Maybe you take that. Maybe you take the the train.
04:44Or maybe maybe just hang out in Detroit for the holiday here,
04:46because we don't need you back right now.
04:48Not around these guys.
04:50You screwed up so badly and so obviously that you cannot coach this team.
04:55You cannot be around this team.
04:56And what was it? 48 hours later, he was fired.
04:59It was just a horrible, horrible coaching blunder in a series of blunders.
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