Do Lions Stack Up To Last Night's Super Bowl Teams?

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00:00It proves that we need help on the defensive side, but it also proves that, you know, the

00:06loss to Washington, you know, they're still a good team.

00:09Yeah, I mean, look, the thing is, you just have to play your best in these biggest games.

00:16What happened yesterday was a product of Philly playing their best and Kansas City playing

00:22one of their worst games they played in a while.

00:24It's not only Philadelphia playing their best, it's Philadelphia at their best.

00:28They're healthy.

00:29You know how many defensive linemen they have on the injured reserve one and he's never

00:35played a snap for them.

00:36Wow.

00:37I mean, the Lions had three starters and two on the two more off the two deep on the injured

00:43reserve.

00:44Like, I can appreciate that.

00:47They did look great, but they have one D lineman on injured reserve.

00:51Look, let me get this straight, too.

00:52I think that a healthy Lions team beats the Kansas City team.

00:56I don't know if the healthy Lions team beats the healthy Philadelphia team, but that's

01:00a battle I'd love to see.

01:03And they more than have a shot, of course, and if had, you know, the Lions beat the Commanders,

01:06they would have had to host that game.

01:08Obviously, they wouldn't have been, you know, injury free like we wanted them to be.

01:10But let's not forget, as great as the Eagles looked last night and they were dominant from

01:14start to finish, they almost lost to the Rams a couple of weeks ago.

01:18They're right.

01:19The Rams were about to go in for a game leading touchdown and Stafford threw a bad pass.

01:26And I know weather played a role in that as well, but they're not unbeatable.

01:29The Eagles just looked unbeatable last night.

01:31They put it all together.

01:32Yes, exactly.

01:33It was a it was an ass kicking and keep this in mind, too.

01:36Last year, the Eagles lost in the first round of the playoffs, but then they made a monster.

01:40They made some monster moves in the offseason.

01:42They went out there.

01:43They got Saquon Barkley in his 2000 yards rushing his MVP type of season, and they hit

01:50in the draft again.

01:53They went to the draft, spent the first two picks on defensive backs, and those two picks

01:58were studs.

02:00It worked out for them.

02:01And that's what an offseason can do.

02:04I'm hoping the same thing can happen for the Lions in an offseason.

02:07But for the Lions, it's getting healthy and then finding that extra piece on defense.

02:13Paul's in Clinton Township at NACS.

02:15Hello, Paul.

02:16Hey, guys.

02:17Thanks for taking the call.

02:18Sure.

02:20The thing I took out of it was, you know, obviously Philly went to the Super Bowl two

02:25years ago, and then last year they imploded, lost in the first round of the playoffs, and

02:29people were talking about firing their coach and talking about the proverbial they missed

02:34their window.

02:35Right.

02:36Remember all that chatter?

02:38And they had the 30th ranked defense last year in the league, and they were able to

02:45turn it around, like Gator said, with some moves that they made.

02:48But like anything, it does take being healthy.

02:52I would love to take seven guys off of that defense I watched last night and then see

02:58how good that defense would be if I was able to do that.

03:03And obviously, that's not what happened.

03:05They were healthy and props to them.

03:07They were legitimately an incredible performance last night.

03:12But like I said, that defense and everything they did was predicated on the fact that they

03:15had all their players.

03:18The other thing it did...

03:19Knocked seven off that team on defense, and I don't think they'd be as dominant last year

03:24as they were.

03:25Of course they wouldn't be.

03:26You're 100% right on that.

03:27But the other thing that Philadelphia's defense did and why they were able to be so good is

03:32they didn't have to blitz.

03:33They got everything they needed to from the front four.

03:36And it wasn't like they had this constant pressure coming from the outside.

03:39It starts in the middle with those guys.

03:41But it's a different kind of pass rush that got there.

03:44Their defensive tackles are spectacular.

03:47And when you're under duress like Mahomes was, he doesn't have time to throw and set

03:51up and throw those deep passes.

03:54He was in a lot of trouble.

03:56And they've got young defensive backs who are able to stay step for step with the receivers

03:59for the most part.

04:01And they got the job done.

04:02But that defensive line did such an amazing job against the Chiefs.

04:08And that's why we get excited.

04:10The Lions have pieces of that, but it's not a complete job yet.

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