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Doug and Gator praise Jared Goff and Kicker Jake Bates for their performances on Sunday.

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00:00And we said we'd start at the end, and we all knew eventually there would be a pressured

00:08Jake Bates field goal.

00:10We all knew eventually that this guy who has been working extremely hard, we've been out

00:17there at practice, tons of kicks, first guy out.

00:22Sometimes I saw he was the last guy off, but there was a lot of just work being put in

00:27to what appeared to be the thing with Jake Bates was absolute, you know, he could nuke

00:33it.

00:34He could be good out to 60.

00:35We saw it in the UFL.

00:38But it was accuracy.

00:40Can he dial it in?

00:41Can he be accurate?

00:42Right.

00:43Because this is all new to him, basically.

00:44Yep.

00:45And can he handle the stage?

00:46Like, that's another big part of this, is can you handle the stage?

00:50And they put faith in their guy.

00:53You know, when they started taking a knee and saying, we're going to play for the field

00:56goal.

00:58It wasn't like the shortest field goal ever, but it's totally makeable by an NFL kicker.

01:04Sure it is.

01:05But it's beyond the distance that you see for an extra point.

01:08And for an extra point, you see plenty of kickers missing extra points.

01:12You still had that feeling inside, like, I don't, I don't know how I trust this.

01:17Yeah.

01:18But they trusted it.

01:19Yeah.

01:20And that's, and that's what matters most.

01:21It's why you have a kicker.

01:22You have to trust your kicker on your roster to drill it from inside of 50.

01:28And when you get beyond 50, it's, it's less of a certainty, but today's NFL, it seems

01:33like it's almost a certainty.

01:34Now, anything inside of 55.

01:36They treated that situation like they had faith in their kicker.

01:39Yes, they did.

01:40They treated that situation like they had, you know, peak Mason Crosby or somebody like

01:45they had a guy that they knew would make that kick.

01:48That's how they treated this situation.

01:50Okay.

01:51We got all the yardage we need.

01:53We made it down to the 26.

01:55We're 44 yard field goal.

01:58We know our guy's going to make it.

02:00That's how they treated it.

02:01And until you see him in that situation, look, they, they acted like they knew they had enough.

02:09And certainly it's not about the distance, but the further out you are, the, the less

02:16angle you know, you have, you have, you have to be more perfect.

02:21The further flight of the ball, you know, if it's off by a couple of degrees, one way

02:25or the other, it's going to sail wide.

02:28So you know, the further the ball has to travel, the greater chance for him to miss right or

02:33left.

02:34The distance isn't the issue was, are you, you know, and, and it's your pressure.

02:38Like that's, that's a pressure kick.

02:40That's not a gimme kick by any stretch of the imagination.

02:43On the road, hostile environment for the win is perfect conditions, but you expect a good

02:49NFL kicker to make that, that kick.

02:53And as we felt our way through this situation and navigated it, Jake Bates came through

02:59and the lions acted as if they had their guy.

03:04And based upon this, it looks like they might, I mean, you know, he's, he's been great.

03:09And some of the extra points you're like, was that good?

03:13He's had, he's had more than a few extra points where they have been sailing and mostly

03:20it seems like wide, right?

03:22But they sneak through the upper, he just tucks it right inside the upright and it's

03:24good.

03:25And I'm sure his plan is to go right down the middle on every kick, but it feels like

03:29on somebody's kicks, like it's about velocity more than anything else.

03:33So if I kick it hard enough and fast enough, the distance isn't going to catch up to me

03:39because the ball's just going to shoot through the uprights before it has a chance to go

03:41squirrelly.

03:43But he's been, he's been money.

03:45He's been absolute money this year.

03:47Was he 10 for 10 now with field goals kind of season?

03:50Yep.

03:51I think he missed one extra point maybe.

03:54Yep.

03:55But he's been fantastic.

03:56And what a situation we put into the test your metal.

04:00Now hysterically, I just did something I've done all the time and it's the Houston Oilers

04:04moved to Tennessee.

04:05They play Tennessee this weekend, not Houston.

04:07I mean, if you send a couple of weeks, I still make that mistake, but it's kind of like Houston,

04:12Houston Astros being in the American league.

04:14There's some things I'm never getting used to, but sorry, they don't play Texas for a

04:18couple of weeks, but that will be a big game when they get there.

04:22But don't put the cart in front of the horse.

04:23I got Tennessee this weekend at home at one o'clock, but anyway, back to the, back to

04:27the Bates thing.

04:28Like that's a, that's a big kick for the game, but it's also a big kick for the season.

04:34Like the next time he's out there, he'll know he can do it.

04:39You know, there's, there's short-term prognosis and there's long-term prognosis and there's

04:44short-term solutions, but there's long-term solutions.

04:47I feel better about Jake Bates today and I think all of Detroit feels better about Jake

04:51Bates today.

04:52And he got a game ball and he was up there in front of the team and I always think it's

04:55weird for kickers because they're just cut from a different cloth.

04:59They don't, they're not the same.

05:02They're not anywhere close to what the rest of the team, their job is, what they do, what

05:06they look like.

05:07And he got up there and he said, Hey man, thank you for the opportunity and great job

05:10by the offense to get it down there and the whole, the whole snap spot operation.

05:14Like he thanked everybody in the locker room, but that's a big moment for Jake Bates and

05:19that's a big moment for this Lyon season is to have him come through with a pressure kick.

05:24Yeah, no, it was big.

05:25Glad to see it.

05:26I had a knot in my, my stomach watching the game in the last five minutes of the game

05:30and please God, get the ball back in an opportunity to win.

05:33But it was interesting watching how golf handled things.

05:38He really did have this.

05:39Can I make one final point on Bates?

05:41Yeah.

05:42He had a great quote afterwards and it just made me laugh.

05:45He said, 18 months ago I was selling bricks in Houston, gotta make a living.

05:52Hey, kicking bricks.

05:55I don't know.

05:56I don't know what, I don't know what that career, how that trajectory, that career trajectory

06:00was taken.

06:01You're selling bricks.

06:02There's a lot of damn brick salesmen out there, but I mean, okay, sell them bricks

06:08in Houston.

06:09So you need a pallet of bricks.

06:11Chicago brick?

06:12Yeah.

06:13Bates!

06:14Right?

06:15Who talking to you?

06:18Bates brick sales.

06:19Right.

06:20Bates, you back from the USFL yet?

06:23Cause we, we got, we got a pallet back here, man.

06:26I'll get it.

06:27Need a high low?

06:28Need a high low in aisle three.

06:31Selling bricks in Houston.

06:33In golf.

06:34You were saying about golf.

06:35The, the sense of calm that he had on his face going into that last drive.

06:38It was, you know, we've heard the old Aaron Rodgers era and, you know, when he said relax

06:43the whole bit and spell that out and, and you understand that.

06:47But when you see it from golf, it was like, I firmly believe it.

06:52This guy has been playing at an elite level now for several weeks.

06:58Tap the brakes.

06:59He threw three incompletions.

07:00I know.

07:02It's amazing how accurate he's been over the last three weeks.

07:05He's been playing at an elite level and you know me, I don't like to throw the word elite

07:09out there because I think it gets misused all the time.

07:11Elite means the top two or three in the league.

07:14There's difference between being elite and playing at an elite level, which is perfectly

07:18fine.

07:19He is playing at an elite level over the last three weeks and I'm loving it.

07:24He's throwing the ball downfield for all those naysayers out there.

07:27He can't throw deep.

07:28Okay.

07:29Tell me that again.

07:30I was watching the last few weeks and he's throwing perfect passes downfield to receivers.

07:34The touchdown pass to Amin Ra was, was a thing of beauty.

07:38It was right in the stride.

07:39Boom.

07:40No, no hassle at all.

07:41That was against, they showed a seven man front.

07:45I don't know that he brought Tim Patrick in motion to have him pick up the extra pass

07:50rusher that was not accounted for or if that was part of the original design.

07:54It doesn't matter, but the guys up front on that pass to Amin Ra, the guys up front gave

07:58him time to give his great receivers a chance to beat man coverage.

08:04And that's exactly what not only Amin Ra did, if you saw Jameson Williams was wide open

08:09as well on that play and he made a great throw on a play that was screaming, you're going

08:15to be under heavy duress.

08:18And he wasn't.

08:19And he, and he wasn't, and he was given the opportunity by the, the offensive line and

08:25Tim Patrick.

08:26And I think David Montgomery was the, was the running back that picked up an extra rusher.

08:30It was seven on seven.

08:32They crowded the wine and, and right before that snap, Greg Olson said, look at this.

08:36They got everybody in the line of scrimmage.

08:38They got to figure out who's going to come and who's going to drop into coverage.

08:41And they all rushed the passer, all seven of them.

08:44The lions were prepared for it.

08:46I mean, that was, that was Flores versus Ben Johnson and a lot, and Ben Johnson's guys

08:52executed it.

08:53That was a thing of beauty.

08:55Yeah.

08:56There were four straight drives that went for touchdowns after what the first two drives

08:59were three and out, I think.

09:01And you're feeling not so good about this team to get down 10, nothing before you can

09:04blink.

09:05And then they go on a run bleeding into the second half too, which makes you feel so much

09:11better.

09:12Hey, if they're going to score, let's answer the score.

09:13And they did.

09:15And then things started to slip a little bit.

09:17Then they trail in the game with a few minutes left.

09:20But again, cool, calm, confident, Jared Goff leads the team down the field with some big

09:27time passes, big rush coming at them.

09:30He'll wait, wait, wait.

09:31He had the one play where it looked like a Grenard was going to strip sack him up.

09:37That was a huge play.

09:38I'm just going to step up and throw this and completely pass this downfield to St. Brown.

09:44Yesterday was a St. Brown day.

09:47And I was glad to see it because we hadn't seen one in a while.

09:50He had a whole bunch of hundred yard games last year.

09:51I think he had one going into the game this year and then comes up with the one yesterday.

09:55It was just big play after big play.

09:57You need something.

09:58Where's 14th area is first down next.

10:01It was a brilliant thing to watch.

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