Lions Statistically Baffling Win Over Titans

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00:00I'm not sure we can really explain it, you know, when you see, um, the score of 52 to 14,

00:07you're automatically thinking it's just awesome destruction with your offense.

00:12We know what Jared golf has been this week, this year, and let alone the last several weeks,

00:17where he's been near perfect. In fact, one game was perfect 18 for 18. And he said this ridiculously

00:25high, complete percentage, uh, knock on water, knock on water, knock on wood. He hasn't turned

00:30the ball over. I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. He hasn't turned the ball over.

00:35Uh, he's, he's taken care of it. And, and the team is winning. And then you look at this score

00:40and you see 52 to 14. And you're thinking, at least I would have been thinking, had I seen

00:44the box score and not watch the game. Okay. So what golf do throw for over 300 yards,

00:49probably had four touchdowns. They probably ran for a couple hundred close to a couple hundred

00:53yards. And then you look at it and all they had 17 first downs in the game, Tennessee at 23.

00:59Okay. They never went for it on fourth down. Interesting. They only ran 47 plays, 47 plays,

01:09Tennessee ran 71, Tennessee at over 400 yards on offense. The lions had 225 yards in total offense.

01:19I'm sorry. What's that? You score 52 points in the game with 225 yards in offense.

01:26They averaged 4.8 yards per play compared to the 5.9 of Tennessee.

01:33So obviously something else happened along the way. And what happened along the way was turnovers.

01:41Tennessee commits four turnovers. And I'd have to do more than perhaps a little more research.

01:47Perhaps a little more research on this, but I feel like all those turnovers happen in the red zone,

01:53their own red zone, by the way, to allow the lions now to take over

01:56in the red zone. And the lions were perfectly, they were five of five for touchdowns in the red

02:02zone. They just didn't have to go very far. That's the thing. When you have a one play drive for 70

02:08yards, cause you hand the ball to Jameer Gibbs. And I don't know about you, but for me watching

02:14that play, I had to go back and remind him, like, I know, I know that they fair caught the catch or

02:20whatever the kick and they start their own 30. I know they did this, but that didn't look like it

02:25was a 70 yard run. It looked like it was like a 45 yard run. I rewound the tape because I wanted

02:31to see how fast he gets to the 50 to go from the 30 to the 50 like that, which is exactly what he

02:37did. Jameer Gibbs is awesome. And obviously as a breakaway speed and just, just an amazing game

02:44by the lions. And we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the contributions of the special teams.

02:52Well, yeah, you mentioned, you mentioned turnover special teams is the other reason.

02:56Yeah, exactly. It's four turnovers and then, okay, well that accounts for a lot of the points,

03:00but they still scored 52. How else? Well, here's how else Khalif Raymond with 190 punt return yards

03:08you had a nice kickoff return as well. So you've got that going for you, which is nice when

03:19you see Khalil Dorsey, take it back 72 yards and not getting the end zone, but didn't matter.

03:25Not long after that, they, they did. You see Jake Bates hit seven of his hits. It has another 10

03:32point game for Jake Bates, seven extra points. And then a 51 yard field goal, which it feels

03:38like right now. And I don't want to, I'm again, I'm knocking on wood here. I don't think they

03:44have a problem with their kicker. I like, I like what Jake Bates is doing this year.

03:49And I think he's only going to get better as time goes on because he's getting more and more

03:52experience of, of kicking in an actual football game, kicking in front of 65,000 fans. Every time

03:59he takes the field on Sunday, at least 65,000 fans, that's what we have here at Ford field,

04:06let alone what you're going to see on the road when the stadiums are bigger.

04:10So I don't really worry about him and Jack Fox doing Jack Fox things. He goes unnoticed. Did

04:17you know Jack Fox averaged 61 yards a punt dude. He had one that went like 65 or something. 67.

04:23Oh God. I'm sorry. Short him two yards. Yeah. Seven years. Oh no, it was two, three of the

04:30five kicks went inside the 20 Jack Fox. Apparently according to sports works last

04:36night with Dan Miller and the crew, I believe they said that that's an NFL record for most,

04:41for the highest net average with at least five punts in a game was insane.

04:4961 yards a kick. That's absolutely incredible.

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