Detroit Lions Secure Victory in High-Stakes NFL Finale

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00:00Game 272, the last and final of the 2024 NFL regular season last night on a Sunday night

00:08in the Motor City with all of the stakes you could ever dream of for a true regular season

00:13finale in the National Football League. At stake last night between Detroit and Minnesota,

00:19the one seed in the NFC, the NFC North Divisional crown and the loser falling all the way to the

00:26five seed in a road trip to start off the postseason. It was everything we could dream of

00:32entering a game, the actual game itself rather lopsided, but a win Detroit desperately needed

00:40and got. 31 to 9, the victory for the Lions against their divisional mates in the Minnesota

00:46Vikings. Two and a half point number in favor of Detroit at home, they easily cover that.

00:52Ending the year 11 and five against the spread as a favorite in 16 of 17 games, the RS, one of

00:59the highest totals we had seen in nearly five years in the National Football League at 56 and a half

01:05stays well under a Detroit defensive performance. We had not seen out of the Lions in nearly two

01:12months. They were really good on defense, and if you're just correlating like week to week,

01:17you watch the San Francisco 49ers team with half of their football team out,

01:21move the football up and down the field. So you just figured the correlation was going to be

01:24Minnesota's got a way better offense than San Francisco. They should be able to move the

01:28football with ease going up against the Lions, and that didn't happen. And also give credit to Aaron

01:33Glenn, the defensive coordinator that said, you know what? We'll let you get your yards on the

01:36ground. You're not going to beat us over the top because if you would have told me Ben before the

01:40game, forget about the 19 calories for for Minnesota, but they would run for 120 yards for

01:456.3 yards per carry. I would have said Justin Jefferson probably had 10 catches for a buck,

01:5055 and three touchdowns because everything was wide open because you had to sell out a little

01:54bit more to stop the run and that didn't happen. Sam Darnold built on timing. How many times do

01:58we see in this game, Ben? We take a five step drop sitting in the pocket with blocking and

02:03nobody is open. The coverage was sensational in that secondary, which is something that Detroit

02:08didn't do particularly well through the first 17 weeks of the season. That was real eye opening

02:13performance. We knew Detroit is good. I knew Detroit is good. I thought they were the best

02:17team in the NFC for three quarters of the season, then started getting injuries on defense. And you

02:21know what? I just don't know how they're actually going to recover with all these injuries and boy

02:25did they recover last night. That was a phenomenal effort from the defense that I didn't see coming

02:30entering into the game on the desk yesterday. Ben, I did think Detroit was win, would win this

02:34game. Not enough to bet him, took some profits in this game overall. But for me, the last thing I

02:38thought is 18 of 41 for Sam Darnold for under 200 yards. We thought we're going to have a ping pong

02:43match where both of these quarterbacks were at least 250 plus and multiple touchdowns on both

02:47sides. We got one total touchdown pass in that game. That's crazy.