The Key Factors At Play

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00:00You go to this game.

00:01No, but Justin, I think there are a lot of people exactly where you're at, where they

00:05have been really excited about the Detroit Tigers, and they have used that as a distraction

00:11until we get a little bit further into the season, and we know more, and we have more

00:15confidence in what the Lions are doing.

00:18There is so much talk about this team being a Super Bowl contender, and they are, but

00:27it does make you nervous when those expectations are the top of the mountain, and then you

00:32lose one that you shouldn't have lost to Tampa Bay.

00:36Now you start to have the injury bug.

00:38You're going into the bye week.

00:40You obviously would much rather go in 3-1 versus 2-2.

00:44Yeah, nervous.

00:45I think nervous is a good word to use.

00:47I am nervous about this, less so after seeing Seattle's front seven injury report, right?

00:53But I am nervous because there's no Frank Ragnow, and that's the linchpin of this football

00:55team.

00:57He's on, running the ball, down and dirty, pass protecting, blitz pickup.

01:01The center position's critical, and Frank's not just an okay average center.

01:05He's an elite center.

01:06Missing him scares me.

01:07Now some of that nervous energy is alleviated when I see Boy Maffi out, 17 pressures to

01:12lead Seattle.

01:14Leonard Williams out, 11 pressures, number three for the Seattle Seahawks.

01:17Byron Murphy, young rookie in the middle.

01:20He's got seven pressures.

01:21He's out.

01:22They're missing 80% of the pressures they've generated this season.

01:25That makes me take a deep breath, just give Goff a little bit of time, win up front, bully

01:30ball and let him play pass off of it, and they'll get out of this with a win.

01:34But it is nervous because it's Seattle, because you don't have Ragnow, because a loss hurts

01:39you a lot early in the season given what's going on with the Vikings in your division,

01:43what's going on with Seattle who would be 4-0 as well.

01:45The fight for the one seed is already underway.

01:48And I think the recipe is clearly there.

01:51Primetime Goff that I just mentioned, he's able to be primetime Goff when they come out

01:55and control the line of scrimmage, establish the run, and then they just look to him to

02:00manage the game versus go out there and win it.

02:03Tom in Windsor, you're on 97.1.

02:04Yeah, hey, I just want to chime in on the Lions talk a little bit.

02:09I know obviously we're giving some credit here to Seattle's defense, and I'm not going

02:13to discredit them and say, you know, they had the second scoring defense in the league.

02:18It's pretty obvious.

02:19Some things that you've got to remember, too, when you look at them this year of what they've

02:23done.

02:24Denver Broncos week one, Bo Nix first start.

02:28Week two, Patriots against Jacoby Brissett.

02:32Week three, Dolphins with Skylar Thompson and Tim Boyle, who we all know how good he's

02:37been when he was here.

02:38So I'm not going to deny that their defense is not good.

02:43Their defense is in top 10 in terms of personnel.

02:46What they got on the back end is good.

02:49But I think with what they've got going on with their front seven entries, I do not see

02:52why Detroit cannot just run this ball like they've had before and win and win this game.

02:58Now, another thing to point out, yes, rag now is out.

03:00That is huge.

03:02But there's three games that he missed last year.

03:04The one that you're pointing out was the Chicago game.

03:07And we know that Jared golf outside is just not good, especially against the Bears defense,

03:11but they did win twice without them, including a Monday night game against the Raiders.

03:16Tom, to your point, they did that Raider game.

03:18They didn't have them either.

03:19I think a couple of things are going to be key here.

03:20I think you're right.

03:21Just run the ball.

03:22And that's there for them.

03:25They're going to have to continue to lean on their defense, though, too, which I think

03:27is one of those illuminating things through the first three weeks.

03:30It's been good.

03:31It's going to have to be good tonight when the Lions play the Seahawks without branch,

03:35without possibly with possibly without branch.

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