High Stakes NFL Showdown: Minnesota vs. Detroit Analysis

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00:00They're Minnesota and Detroit.

00:03The stakes again is unbelievable.

00:07It's awesome.

00:08It's unfortunate.

00:09I know.

00:10Have we done that the yearly dance of we got to stop at the

00:13wild cards like let's reformat everything where people are

00:16like, ah, this should be for the one in the two seed.

00:19And we've haven't done that.

00:21People are into it.

00:21That's good.

00:22I'm glad you know how every like every like five years we

00:25got a seven and nine team, right?

00:27When's the division like we got to do away with then they

00:29win a playoff game and everybody quiets down quickly

00:31or they think that like the one year was the NFC East.

00:34They're like this division will never get back on its feet

00:36and then every year they put two teams in the playoffs.

00:38It's neither here nor there.

00:40The winners the one seed and potentially going to be booked

00:43as favorites to win the entire conference loser is at the

00:47moment projected to go to Los Angeles to play the Rams which

00:52for these two specific teams last year, that's what the Lions

00:57played very close game in Detroit.

01:01It's who the Lions opened with this year.

01:03Very close game in Detroit for Minnesota.

01:08The only other team that Detroit who beat them this season

01:12is the LA Rams in that building.

01:15The stakes are unreal in this football game here.

01:21We can get into it.

01:22But are you guys right now feeling confident in a side

01:26Eileen?

01:27I know this will come out maybe hypocritical due to the bashing

01:30Eileen Detroit because they are at home and I still think

01:33that home field advantage matters and I would think there

01:38are aspects of Detroit's overall game that could be cleaned

01:41up in a moment like this.

01:43I think sometimes it's difficult to ask a team to go on the

01:45type of run you are asking Minnesota to go on to now snag

01:49this one seed Eileen Detroit my action to be elsewhere in

01:52the game and he leaned for you Lisa your love aside.

01:55No, I like Minnesota.

01:57That's the side and I like them on the money line.

01:59You're talking about a team that has won nine straight,

02:01right?

02:02They've won those games by an average margin of victory of

02:057.8 points per game.

02:06They're six and one on the road this year five true road games

02:10outside the wind in London against the New York Jets,

02:13right?

02:13They've won those games very close by an average margin of

02:164.8 points per game.

02:18But you look at the flip side for Detroit dominant on team

02:21six and two at home.

02:22They've won those games by an average margin of 18.1 points

02:26per game.

02:26But let's look at the last three at home in Ford Field.

02:30They won against Chicago didn't cover one against Green Bay

02:34didn't cover and lost outright to the Buffalo Bills.

02:37So now you're talking about three straight games where they

02:40haven't covered at home.

02:41I know they got the victory on the road and the cover against

02:44San Francisco.

02:45This is a different animal.

02:46I believe in the defense more than I do in Detroit and I

02:50believe in Sam Donald right now 377 last week with JJ on the

02:54outside.

02:55Give me the Vikings in the upset.

02:56Yeah, it's it's one of those to me where again, it's not a

02:59cop-out.

02:59I'm just going to go with the home team in this spot Detroit

03:01if was in Minnesota.

03:02I would have done the same thing but understand this the winner

03:05is going to certainly reap the benefits of this victory by

03:08getting a week off and having home field advantage that is

03:10massive massive, but let's take a look at the loser here and

03:13what happens to them.

03:14Let's just say as Kevin pointed out it could be the Rams Rams

03:17know full.

03:17Well, they're not playing their starters this week Sean McVay

03:20and that seems like you know what we are now going to be

03:22focused completely on these two football teams and we've been

03:24capping them and going over all the film on those two football

03:27teams alone when you look at the games between Minnesota and

03:29you know going to take on Detroit tonight.

03:30They're not the luxury that they have to go full gas this week.

03:33So they practice are but also go back to the week before you

03:35look at the Minnesota Vikings had a really hard game with the

03:37Packers and then you have Detroit who had the advantage

03:39to say I'm going to rest my guys in a meaningless game get them

03:42a breath of air and have be better on solid ground than what

03:46we could have been they didn't so the loser drops down to the

03:48five and then is going to say we just went through a gauntlet

03:51the past couple weeks played all at all starters.

03:53We are out of gas and let's just say this game is up 30 to

03:5527 a hard-fought victory.

03:57Then you got to go on the road against a team that's been

03:59waiting for you in their own building.

04:01My goodness.

04:02The loser is really going to behind the eight ball of a 14

04:05win season.

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