Inside The Film Room: Will the Cowboys be able to contain Jahmyr Gibbs & the Lions?

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Bobby took Shan and RJ inside the Detroit Lions’ film room ahead of the highly anticipated Thursday Night Football matchup. He started by breaking down the Lions’ defense, including Aidan Hutchinson’s impact, injuries, and the secondary. Next up, he dove into the Lions’ offense, highlighting how terrifying running back Jahmyr Gibbs can be, the importance of keeping pressure on Jared Goff, and more. Drop your game predictions in the comments below!

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00:00and obviously the biggest thing we've talked about that everybody always mentions is jared

00:20goff and pressuring jared goff so we've talked about epa before which is expected points added

00:26which epa is basically telling you how an individual play actually changes your chances of scoring and so

00:35instead of just yards it measures all right did that play make you closer to scoring on this drive

00:39or take you further away based on down distance everything else jared goff's epa per drop back

00:45when he's pressured this season is negative 0.47 which i know some people may go like i have no

00:51idea what that means i have no like the best in the nfl is still a negative rating drink may is like

00:55negative 0.15 he's the best in the nfl but negative 0.47 when pressured that is a slightly worse epa

01:03than jake browning has this year like for all situations so basically jared goff becomes jake

01:09browning when you pressure him that's the type of player that he is and he's been that's not just a

01:14one-off consistently throughout his career pressure he gets frazzled he makes worse decisions when he

01:19can see it when he can look at everything he's so clean he's super impressive he's very accurate

01:25there's all these things that you love about jared goff but if you can get in his face it makes

01:29things really difficult that's why i think tonight quinnon osa kenny clark whatever you can get from

01:36the interior get in his face quickly disrupt him you've got a chance potentially to take the ball

01:41away but there's obviously them being as banged up there they're gonna miss on amin ross st brown

01:45that's gonna be huge because i think that's somebody who absolutely the way that he plays

01:49it plays into a lot of vulnerabilities that dallas has in the secondary but with him looking like he's

01:54gonna miss today i think that this sets up pretty well from a matchup standpoint for dallas

01:59you

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