Dan Miller On How The Lions Have Improved Since Last Season

Detroit Lions play by play voice discusses how the Lions have improve since last season and how they can measure up against the Cowboys.

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00:00Dan, is this Lions team better than last year's, and if so, how much better?

00:04It's not yet, and I think where it potentially will be better is defensively.

00:11They're starting to get their guys back.

00:13Their secondary is pretty much brand new, and you have one guy playing the same position

00:18he played last year.

00:19Brian Branch has moved to safety from nickel corner.

00:22You have new corners and a new nickel, and basically during camp, one of those guys was

00:28always hurt.

00:29They didn't get much time on tasks, so those guys need to play together and figure things

00:34out together, and that really hasn't happened yet.

00:36I mean, if you go back and look at that Seattle game where they gave up 500 runs, or excuse

00:40me, 500, I got tigers on my mind, 500 yards, pass, 500 yards, man, they were so close to

00:48getting to Geno Smith so many times, but hat tip to him, man, he played a heck of a game,

00:53so I think the defense is potentially where they become a better team than they were last

00:58year, and I think that's, I would even say likely, but it hasn't happened yet.

01:03It's got to gel.

01:04They've got to figure some things out.

01:05They're still really good against the run.

01:07They were good against the run last year, and that's really where it starts with them,

01:12but offensively, look, a lot of the same faces, a lot of the same explosiveness.

01:16It really hadn't come together before the Seattle game.

01:19You're hoping that it kind of takes off now, but to me, where they had to get better was

01:24defensively.

01:25I see the pieces there.

01:27They just got to figure it out.