Injury Will Make Packers Harder, Eberflus Fired

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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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