Better Red Zone, D Is Clicking, But Offense Still Lacking

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00:00Within the Lions, what you liked, what you didn't like,

00:03you guys can call in all hour, 248-539-9797.

00:06TJ, let's start with you.

00:07What'd you like?

00:08What didn't you like?

00:09I liked getting back to who you are

00:12and your identity and the toughness

00:13and dominating at the line of scrimmage

00:15and the 188 rushing yards.

00:20Would've been more if you didn't take some kneels

00:22at the end, but.

00:23How much did you like, sorry to interrupt,

00:26carrying David Montgomery, the offensive lineman,

00:29kicking his feet, he's not even touching the ground.

00:30You had to love that.

00:31There was a couple plays,

00:33I think back-to-back plays where they were shoving

00:36for an extra three, four, five,

00:37that play maybe six, seven yards.

00:40That's good stuff, and I've coached Dan Miller well

00:43because all the announcers, oh, look at Montgomery

00:46churning his feet and carrying five guys.

00:48It's like, dude, look at the offensive line

00:49coming behind him and shoving him, all right?

00:51There's a big five, eight.

00:52Give the big guys the credit, what are we doing here?

00:54But that was just a toughness play, right?

00:57We're gonna get two, three,

00:58and then everybody gets in there, right?

01:00I'm in rock kind of circles,

01:02back around and start shoving.

01:03That was, Lomas and I, we got pretty excited

01:07in the booth when we saw that.

01:08That's just, that's such a good play.

01:10It's a demoralizing, it can be a demoralizing play.

01:12When you've got four guys on defense

01:15and you're just shoving them, right?

01:16And you're just four, five, six yards.

01:19Happened, I don't wanna get sidetracked,

01:22it happened yesterday, I don't know if you saw the Colts,

01:24one of the Colts touchdowns where the entire offense

01:27was just shoving him around,

01:28but it's a demoralizing play.

01:30And offense, man, that's just kind of establishing

01:35dominance, I think, at times.

01:36Now, one of these ended up in a touchdown,

01:38so that maybe is the deciding factor,

01:40but which one was more fun?

01:42David Montgomery for six yards

01:45with feet not even touching the ground

01:47or the hook and ladder?

01:49Well, the hook and ladder was more exciting, I think.

01:53You know, the David Montgomery play,

01:55you look at and you say, okay.

01:56Who was exciting, which one was more fun?

01:59Well, for who?

02:01For the offensive lineman or for us?

02:01I'm asking an offensive lineman, and I wanna know.

02:05I think more fun is any time you score a touchdown.

02:07Okay, that's a great answer.

02:08Then you go to the sideline and you get some water, man.

02:10You know what I mean?

02:12You're shoving a guy for six yards,

02:13you still gotta live to play second and two.

02:14It's like you're even more tired.

02:16Yeah, you score a touchdown, you're like,

02:17dude, I get to go to the sideline, man.

02:19No yellow flags, I'm done.

02:21Yeah, so any time you score,

02:22that one's always a little bit more fun,

02:23but that was, what a play call, man.

02:25That was sweet.

02:27And defense.

02:28Defense was incredible.

02:29We gotta start talking about the defense

02:30as much as we fixate on the offense

02:33and not scoring any points in the second half.

02:35TJ, this defense, again,

02:37three straight weeks has carried this team.

02:40Yeah, that's fair.

02:41You know what I mean?

02:42Like, that was the big question is,

02:43could they catch up to the offense?

02:44And the story of that game was,

02:47Arizona, one of 11 on third and fourth down.

02:49No deep passing, no running, nothing.

02:52I don't know about you guys,

02:53but I started getting nervous there in the second half

02:55when the offense kept punting and punting and punting.

02:58And I'm like, okay, I hate putting this much pressure

03:00and asking the defense to go out there,

03:01get another stop, get another stop, get another stop.

03:03But yeah, I mean, I think we can all agree

03:07that the offense looked really good in the first half

03:10and then stumbled in the second half

03:12and certainly has been kind of the MO

03:15the last first three games, at least.

03:16The offense is looking really good at times,

03:19but probably not hitting their full potential yet, right?

03:21Probably yesterday, I'd say maybe a B-minus,

03:24C-plus performance from the offense in the second half.

03:28The run game was good, don't get me wrong.

03:29Jared Goff was better.

03:31I think the one interception, yeah,

03:32dropped the defensive end, never saw him.

03:34Not making excuses, but he looked like he was

03:38getting more decisive, right?

03:39So you saw improvement, but for their standard,

03:43I think they're probably not going in today feeling,

03:46oh yeah, man, we're feeling great about ourselves,

03:48we're clicking on all cylinders.

03:50They still got a lot of work to do,

03:51but it is good to see some improvements week to week, right?

03:54Last week, everybody talking about the red zone

03:57and how pathetic it was, one for seven.

04:01You know, you go out yesterday and you're two for two,

04:02really three for three,

04:03because the other one was a 21 yarder.

04:05So, you know, you like to see improvements there.

04:07You like to see improvements on the defense, right?

04:11When's the last time, you know,

04:12we faced a mobile quarterback like that

04:14and held him under a hundred yards.

04:17You know what I'm saying?

04:17It seemed like every running quarterback

04:21we've played in the last three years

04:23goes for a bill on us.

04:24Yeah, triple digits, yep.

04:25Yeah, and then the run defense,

04:27I mean, you hold Arizona's running backs

04:30to 13 carries and like 32 yards.

04:33That's not a flash in the pan, that's real.

04:35And that's who they've been for a long time.

04:37So I think the offense, you're going in there today

04:40feeling, you know what, we didn't play our best.

04:43We certainly stumbled a little bit in the second half,

04:45but you have to have a lot of confidence

04:48with the way your defense is playing, right?

04:50I know I certainly do.

04:51I'm sure all the fans do.

04:53It just feels, it feels different.

04:55And it feels like the secondary.

04:57I know Terry Arnold's kind of getting picked on still

04:59with some of the physical coverage plays.

05:02But he played better as the game went on.

05:04He did play better.

05:05And there was really, I mean,

05:06I don't remember seeing any wide receivers

05:08running wide open.

05:09It was sticky man coverage.

05:10They trusted those guys.

05:11They just kept saying, you know what,

05:13we're up two scores,

05:14but we're going to keep doing what we're doing.

05:16We're going to pressure a little bit.

05:17We're going to put, you know,

05:18Terry and Arnold and Carlton Davis,

05:19you guys are one-on-one, right?

05:21You got to go out there and win.

05:22And they won a lot more than Arizona did.

05:26And that was, that was very encouraging from my view.

05:29I thought Carlton Davis had a big day too.

05:30Especially in the run game.

05:32Yeah, the run game coming up.

05:33Just that one P.I. in the fourth quarter there.

05:38I don't think it was fourth,

05:38but it was one where they both were grabbing

05:40and he was, yeah, it was P.I.

05:41because he was grabbing them.

05:42He just had them poked a little bit.

05:44He probably didn't need to on Marvin Harrison,

05:46but the big stop on, you know,

05:47he had a really nice tackle on a second down.

05:49And then a couple of plays later,

05:50the fourth down, getting Kyler Murray down.

05:52So defense looked really, really good.

05:56What'd you like?

05:57What didn't you like?

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