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Detroit Lions: A Season Dissected After Their Playoff Loss
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1/19/2025
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three football games, covered their spreads for 99 seconds of football?
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I mean, never looked the level that everybody thought they were?
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Detroit finished the season two and three against playoff teams,
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not including Green Bay and Minnesota.
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The Detroit Lions defense that people thought,
00:19
because of the week 18 game against Norton, man, let me tell you,
00:24
Angeloni, yeah, how's he look?
00:27
Still chasing his tail out there.
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They had 40 points put on their head.
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Washington punted one time, once.
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So this is a thing now, if you're the Lions, you go, well, don't worry.
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We're a perennial.
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Well, you're probably going to lose both your coordinators
00:45
this offseason, which is not an easy thing.
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The last time I remember easily that happening
00:50
was when the Eagles happened to them after a Super Bowl appearance.
00:54
And the next year, they also had to flip the coordinators
00:57
because they were both so terrible.
00:58
Matt Patricia, I think, at some point, was coaching offense.
01:00
I don't even know what was going on in Philadelphia there.
01:03
So that's difficult. You then have the Jared Goff problem
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that people spent the entire season ignoring, which was, hey,
01:11
Jared Goff's the Super Bowl favorite.
01:13
That's kind of crazy.
01:14
And ultimately, we saw how that looked.
01:17
And then there's the Dan Campbell end of it.
01:19
And we'll find out.
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But right now, he screams Tom Thibodeau to me.
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For anybody that doesn't know, the Nixon Bulls head coach,
01:27
where every year you go, man, if only Tib's guys were healthy.
01:31
Yeah, I wonder why they're not.
01:32
You know what happened going into this game?
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Zeitler wasn't there.
01:35
Then they immediately lost another guy.
01:37
And you can think, Donnie, that that's bad fortune.
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But I think you see it similarly to me.
01:41
When you play and probably practice the way that Detroit does,
01:46
you're more vulnerable to these type of injuries.
01:47
The war of attrition.
01:48
When you can play less meaningful games and rest your starters.
01:51
And we're not saying that that was why they lost that football game
01:54
to Washington, but it's all a part of it.
01:55
It's all those pieces together.
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The one thing that we were worried about
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was once you get to those big football games,
02:00
would Dan Campbell actually butt his head in and say,
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you know what, this isn't a good play.
02:04
We shouldn't have done this.
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It didn't really catch up to them yesterday.
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They just couldn't play any defense.
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And yes, they were injured, but they were still the number one overall seed
02:11
favored by close to 10 points during the week,
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which came down to around 7.5 to 8 by game time at this point.
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That was still a shocking defeat.
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Let's understand this.
02:19
Detroit really helped Washington win by beating themselves
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right out of the gate with turnovers.
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