Analyzing Lions Decisive Victory Over Titans

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00:00Lions, six and one on a victory Monday.

00:02First time they've been six and one since the 50s.

00:06You knew something was going on here.

00:07I think that puts it in perspective.

00:09An absurd football game.

00:11TJ Lang joins us in studio for the final hour of the show.

00:14TJ, how would you describe that?

00:18A really good team,

00:20just kind of getting out of the way of a really bad team,

00:22is what it felt like.

00:24Like, Tennessee was just so bad,

00:25especially in the second half that,

00:28some of those games you just feel like,

00:29all right, just, let's not mess this.

00:31Let's just let them keep messing it up, you know?

00:33But it was a-

00:34Does it take anything away from the Lions?

00:35No, no, no, it doesn't.

00:36But it's funny how completely different this feels

00:40than the Cowboys game,

00:42where you thrashed them and dismantled the Cowboys, right?

00:45That was like a personal,

00:46we're gonna try to embarrass you.

00:48We don't like you type of game.

00:51And then yesterday was just, okay, kind of ho-hum,

00:54like, okay, if they're just gonna keep messing it up,

00:56you know, we'll just keep taking advantage, you know?

00:59And even, you know, you look at the stats,

01:02and golf under 90 yards, Montgomery under 40 yards,

01:05I'm gonna rock two catches, seven yards.

01:07And you look at that and you're like,

01:0952 point, what, what, excuse me?

01:12So it was just one of those games that-

01:13And one of the punt returns-

01:14You did what you were supposed to do, right?

01:15One of the punt returns was on a defense stay.

01:17Yeah, they were-

01:19You're not setting up a return.

01:20Yeah, you're not setting up a return.

01:23You don't have anybody on the field

01:25that actually wants to throw a block.

01:28Everybody's just kind of getting out of the way

01:29at that point.

01:30Yeah, just let it go.

01:31Yeah, it was just, you know, and I think that,

01:34Jim, we talked about on the pregame show yesterday

01:36that Coach Campbell just has a way

01:38of not letting these guys fall into any sort of traps.

01:42You know what I mean?

01:44And they said the right things last week,

01:45hey, Tennessee's one and five,

01:46but look, this is really good defense, which I agreed with.

01:49I mean, it kind of, the way that game started,

01:51it kind of had that feel that,

01:52okay, maybe this might be a little harder

01:54than we thought it was gonna be.

01:5514-14 at one point, yeah.

01:57Yeah, and, you know, there were, I think,

01:59the three sacks in the first nine plays,

02:01you know, Tennessee had on us.

02:02Yeah, they're getting the golf.

02:03Yeah, it's like, okay, man, you know,

02:05got it, maybe not the best feeling,

02:08but his ability to get these guys just dialed in

02:11and not worry about records or, you know,

02:16hey, trap games or what we said yesterday,

02:18don't take the cheat, you know what I mean?

02:20Like, he doesn't, he gets his guys ready,

02:21and I think it's a testament to him,

02:23and it's gotta be a testament to the guys

02:25in that locker room as well,

02:26just being able to handle their business day in, day out,

02:29and yesterday, probably, I didn't expect,

02:34I don't think, that type of game,

02:35but when you have a team that's turned it over four times

02:37and can't tackle anybody on specialty,

02:40you know what I mean?

02:41It just, it turns into those type of games,

02:42so I thought it was a good win for them,

02:43but I also agree with Jared Goff to it

02:45that it still didn't feel like as crisp

02:48as maybe you were hoping,

02:50and I think part of that was, John,

02:54and I think you'd probably agree,

02:55the pass protection looked a little bit shaky

02:57at times yesterday, and I didn't like Jared Goff

03:01taking as many big hits as he did,

03:03so that's obviously, I think, the one area you look at

03:05and say, we can improve offensively,

03:07and then defensively, at times, they figured it out,

03:10but majority of that first half, it just seemed like,

03:14it couldn't, yeah, couldn't cover anybody,

03:17the rush wasn't matching up,

03:18and I think it was clearly evident,

03:21they need to go get a defensive end.

03:23None of those guys were doing anything

03:25with any sort of consistency,

03:27putting on any kind of pass rush.

03:30That was the one thing I think

03:31that stood out to me the most yesterday.

03:33The one sack the Lions did have

03:35was a busted assignment by Tennessee up front.

03:38Yeah, Angelone came clean.

03:39Yeah, came clean.

03:41You got two guys blocking one, and wait a second.

03:43And there were guys, I mean, I noticed

03:46individual rushes at times,

03:48like Al-Khadim Mohamed had a couple nice rushes

03:50that, man, if the coverage was a little bit tighter,

03:53he's probably getting home, probably getting a big hit,

03:55probably a sack.

03:56There were a couple of those.

03:57I don't wanna act like they didn't get pressure at all,

04:00but it's just, the rush and the coverage

04:03didn't look like it matched up early in that game,

04:05in the first half.

04:06It looked like Rudolph was just picking them apart,

04:07and it's like, what is going on?

04:09And they have one receiver.

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