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Detroit Lions Podcast: Jeff Risdon's Dallas Cowboys Preview Jeff Risdon thinks that the Detroit Lions Offense is going to outrun the Dallas Cowboys Offense as the Cowboys' defense struggles to find an identity more than the Lions' defense. The Lions offense is running at max RPMs coming out of the bye week. Jeff expands his scope for a rare and frank look at the rest of the NFC. there are a lot of surprising records to examine across the conference. "Any Given Sunday" has never been more true than in 2024! Detroit Lions Podcast Daily Lions Coverage Join us every day for your Daily DLP for the latest, most relevant Detroit Lions news, rumors, analysis, and information, right here at Detroit Lions Podcast. https://youtu.be/qi29o8fWRnE Let us know what you think about the show by commenting in the podcast thread in the subreddit, or by leaving us a voice mail message via Skype at: Detroit Lions Podcast Your input will help make the show better, and if you leave us a message on Skype, you just might be featured in an upcoming podcast! You can also give us a call at (929) 33-Lions. Get yourself a Classic Detroit t-shirt here! Don't miss our great merch selection in the Detroit Lions Podcast store. Looking for the relief that CBD products can bring? Click here: https://bit.ly/2XzawlG Get your Lions Gear at: https://bit.ly/2Ooo5Px As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases made here: https://amzn.to/36e2ZfD Donate Direct at: https://bit.ly/2qnEtFj Join the Patreon Crew at: https://bit.ly/2bgQgyj #lions #detroitlions #detroitlionspodcast #all grit #onepride #playoffs #nflplayoffs #nfl #tampa #tampabay #bucs #buccaneers #tampabaybuccaneers #offense #defense Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadcast on:: 09 Oct 2024
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Detroit Lions Podcast: Jeff Risdon's Dallas Cowboys Preview

Jeff Risdon thinks that the Detroit Lions Offense is going to outrun the Dallas Cowboys Offense as the Cowboys' defense struggles to find an identity more than the Lions' defense. The Lions offense is running at max RPMs coming out of the bye week.

Jeff expands his scope for a rare and frank look at the rest of the NFC. there are a lot of surprising records to examine across the conference. "Any Given Sunday" has never been more true than in 2024!

Detroit Lions Podcast Daily Lions Coverage

Join us every day for your Daily DLP for the latest, most relevant Detroit Lions news, rumors, analysis, and information, right here at Detroit Lions Podcast.

https://youtu.be/qi29o8fWRnE

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I'm in Minnesota, he's in a hurricane, so instead I'm going to give you a little bit of a solo video on my thoughts on the lions coming out of the bay. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show, alright, we're 3-in-1, coming out of the bay week. I'll just get ready to do it. I'm actually in Minnesota this week, taking care of some family business. I'm not in Minneapolis, I'm much more north than the hats, but I did watch the Vikings this weekend, and they are 5-0, they are in first place. The Lions are in second place in the NFC North, they had 3-in-1, they got the bears and the packers, both the 3-in-2, kind of where we expected those teams to be, but I'm not sure that we thought that the Vikings were going to be 5-0, I certainly did not. I thought the Vikings were going to be able to score some points. I thought that their offense, even with Sam Darnold, was going to be difficult, did not expect their defense to sustain the way that it has, and that's one of the things I wanted to talk about is the Lions path to winning the division. It's still there, it's absolutely still there, you have Minnesota's 5-0, don't worry about the Vikings, they're good, they're very good right now, we play them in 2 weeks, so what happens then, but I'm still not sold that their defense under Brian Flores, with the personnel that they have is going to be this good, this tightly coordinated for an extended period, and I also think that as teams start to get filmed a little bit, they'll find more ways to attack it. You saw the little bit this past weekend, didn't have the firepower to do it, but I thought that there was a plan there that at least attacked the Vikings a little bit, and you know, there's are ways, but yeah, that's going to be a fun one, for sure, big game coming up. Before then, the Lions have Dallas, got to submit, fell asleep about 20 minutes into the game last night, I'm recording this on Monday afternoon, last night was sending that football to the Cowboys beat the Steelers, with the rain delay at the beginning, I was dead tired, I was visiting my son in college for the weekend, Gohoski's basketball, shout out to number 15, Golaine, but I was just dead from the weekend, so I fell asleep so I didn't actually see the game after about the first two drives, but I saw that the Cowboys won, which means that there are three and two, that's the Lions next opponent, I'm worried about Dallas, nope, that I admit I need to go back and watch what happened last night, but the Lions seem very well designed to take advantage of what Dallas does not do well, they don't tackle in space well, they don't cover particularly well for long periods of time, and they'll be playing without Demarcus Loras for sure, it sounds like Micah Parsons, if even if he plays will be on a pitch count where he's coming in like third and long, pass rush situations only, it's a big deal for them, obviously they'd be Pittsburgh with that, Pittsburgh, again I didn't see the game, but I haven't watched Pittsburgh earlier this year, they're radically different defense, radically different offense than what the Lions present, Justin Fields as their quarterback, Cherigoff and Justin Fields pretty much don't have anything in common other than the position that they play, they play it very divergently, the Lions run duo, they run some inside zone with their run blocking, they have two really really good running backs and even Montgomery and Jamir Gibbs who can both win inside or outside, they can win in either style of scheme, still doesn't really do that or have that, Lions have pretty good receiver and alpha dog and I'm on wrestling Brown, Jimo is the big play guy, St. Lucora stepped up in week four, I thought he looked very good against Seattle, and I expected that will continue, Brock Wright looked very good in the last couple of weeks, I think that will continue, Steeles can't cover all those, I'm sorry, the Cowboys can't cover all those guys, and that's not the way that the Steelers operate their offense, and I think that that, you know, coming off of a relatively short weekend, like I know it was Sunday night football, but it's still like you're a little bit more tired on Monday when you get into the office after being on, I know it's at home for Dallas, so that's obviously end of it. I like the Lions to beat the Cowboys, I was along the short of it, and I will, I don't even look at the Lions yet, I'm actually not sure if you can bet sports in Minnesota, don't know, for having been here in several years, I think the last time I was here was 2017, so it's been a while. By the way, Duluth, Minnesota, this is my first time here, really nice place, it's sort of the western tip of Lake Superior, and it's a nice town, it's very industrial a little bit in the downtown, but like the, as I'm a little bit to the northeast, it's quite nice here, so I'm happy to be up here, would rather be up here for better circumstances, but yeah, it's, I really think that the Lions are going to take this game against the Cowboys, and that makes us four and one. That brings Minnesota, they could be six and oh, they could be, they could remain undefeated, we're good, let's bring it, these are the games that as a Lions fan, trusting your team is important, I trust my team, I hope you do too, now there's certainly some questions about this team that need to get answered, Dallas will answer some of those, coming out of the buy, we'll see, now we'll see where the Lions are at, I don't expect any let down, I expect them to come out and try to pound it on both sides of the ball, I think that the Cowboys offensive line is a weakness, I think they can be attacked, a nuts and solutions should have a good game, they could even make Neil can have a good game, DJ reader in the middle will be, be solid, look, not going to sleep on Dak Prescott, Dak Prescott's good quarterback, CD-Lens are really good wide receiver, they, they can do some things offensively that will give the Lions trouble, give a lot of teams trouble, I don't think they can keep up with what our offense is going to do their defense, now maybe that's, maybe that's a bull claim, I don't know, but I feel like the way that Jared Goff played, and the way the entire offense, I felt like Ben Johnson and the golf fence, cringe when I say that, but I felt like, against Seattle, they figured it out, like they figured out the balance that they needed, they figured out the right level of aggression, the right way to attack a defense that had some vulnerabilities, but, but also some strengths, you know, I thought they did a great job at that, Ben Johnson was just great if I had Jared Goff, he was perfect, literally perfect, don't know why they didn't give him the perfect passory, well actually I do know why, that's stupid by the way, he was perfect, can't ask for more, he's great, he's not going to complete every pass against Cowboys, he doesn't need to, I think, I think the, the pathways are there, but in this video I wanted to look, I'm looking bigger and broader, around the NFC a little bit. 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Oh, it's such a clutch off-season pickup Dave, I was worried we'd be bringing back the same team, I meant those blackout motorized shades, lines.com made it crazy affordable to replace our old blinds, hard to install, no it's easy, I installed these and then got some from my mom, she talked to a design consultant for free and scheduled a professional measure and install, Hall of Fame's son, they're the number one online retailer of custom window coverings in the world, blinds.com is the goat, go to blinds.com for 40% off-site buy, blinds.com rules and restrictions may apply. This episode is brought to you by Honda. When you test drive the new Prolog EV, there's a lot that can impress you about it. There's the class leading passenger space, the clean, thoughtful design, and the intuitive technology. But out of everything, what you'll really love most is that it's a Honda. Visit Honda.com/ev to see offers. Watched? The Arizona Cardinals and team at the Lions beat fairly handily. I don't think that the score was close to it. I think that the game was played. I think most of you watching this would agree with that. It never felt like the Lions were going to lose that game. They went in the San Francisco in one. San Francisco's two and three. Arizona's two and three. Rams are one and four. First place in the west is Seattle, folks. Seattle got beat by the Giants yesterday. Took some flooky plays for them to even get on the board. Giants were the better football team. Don't say that very often. No offense to my Giants, folks. You'll know where you're at. You're not going to the postseason this year. They beat Seattle. So the west, we can beat any team there anywhere. Not concerned about that. The east, we get Dallas. Dallas might be the best team in that east. I do like Washington. I like what they're doing with Jaden Daniels. I like what they're doing with their defense. I think that they're, they found a coach and they've got a quarterback. Quarterback, it isn't always not supposed to be good. And that's that's that's a dangerous situation. So I'm not going to write them off. I think they can keep it rolling a little bit. I do think that their lack of depth is going to bite them at some point, but they look good. That's good football team. Philadelphia can be good when they all play together and play well. They don't do that very often. But when they do, it's kind of fun to watch. See what happens with them. I'm not afraid of them. You shouldn't be either. Should respect them. They're solid. They can they can they can beat the lines if the lines don't have their a game. Watching them again too. Dallas can too. And all the giants probably good. It's a little bit of a stretch. They're not a good matchup for it. But I mean, solid preseason, right? Yeah. Line's depth wasn't great there either. So let's go to the south. RDB Tampa Bay. They're good. Atlanta is the best team down there and they're starting to play like it. And they're they're formidable. They can beat the lions. Lions can also beat them. See about New Orleans. They're about to play in a few hours. They're playing the Chiefs tonight. Actually, I actually think that the Saints can outscore the Chiefs. I'm not sure that they will, but I think they can. Not not predicting that, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Saints looked better than I think most of America thinks they do in this game. And then there's the Panthers who couldn't do a single damn thing against the Chicago Bears. I believe it was 36 to 10. I want to say his final score. Didn't catch much of that game. He was watching. I spent a lot of time actually yesterday watching the Texans beat the Bills. And that's like, I'm going to come back to that in a second. But the broader point here. The Lions are in second place in the best division in the NFC. They've already beaten a couple of teams that look like they could be in the playoffs. Look like we could see them again. We get Minnesota in a couple of weeks. I don't think there's any Lions fan out there that's afraid of Green Bay or Chicago. Again, you need to respect them. There's solid football teams. They can beat the Lions. If the Lions don't play well, they absolutely can. No shame in saying that. If the Lions bring their A game, those teams are winning. They're not beating this this Lions team. Dan Campbell is so good at understanding how to get his teams ready for those sorts of games. Look, I think I think we'll drop one amongst the four between Green Bay and Chicago. Maybe two. Again, it's it's tough to predict because like we all know there's going to be one Lions game this year where they're just like like Baltimore last year like Carolina a couple of years ago where it's like this is not the team that we know. This is not the this is not the Dan Campbell Lions we expect. They'll be one of those games that pretty caught us like his talents really don't mean that. That's stressed that none of us need. But it'll happen. It's going to happen. Hopefully not in the postseason, but it's going to happen like that's just the way football goes. You see weird upsets all the time every weekend. I mean the coaches do weird things coaches do bad things. Type back into the Buffalo Houston game for a second. If you watched it, you know what I'm talking about if you didn't. For those of you who complain about how Dan Campbell's game management and clock management at the end of has and end of games, go watch the end of that Buffalo Houston game. The Bills got the ball tied at their own five with about 25 to 30 seconds left. Hey, through three straight incompletions, punted the ball back didn't have a great pun coverage. Gave the uses a chance to kick a field goal. Kaimi Fairbairn all 27 letters of his name nailed the 59 yard team winner. Like the Buffalo coaches directly cost him that football game. Josh Allen was having a shit game. He wound up nine for 30 against the Houston defense that played very very solid tight man defense didn't give him anything easy pressured him pretty well. Like and and that was one of the other overarching points that I want to talk about. We saw the Bengals mismanaged the end of game situations. Zach Taylor, that's that's a coach that's been doing super bowl. Believe it or not, you would not believe it after you saw what they did yesterday. Basically playing for a long field goal in that situation, not letting your MVP candidate and Joe Burrow try to win the game. It's not just Dan Campbell, folks. This is a league wide systematic issue. People overthink it or they don't think enough one or the other. I'll be honest, I don't even know what she is with Dan Campbell. I tend to think that he over thinks it just because I think that's who he is in watching coach and knowing him around the facility. It's hard because he has not been great at the end of has an end of games. I thought the end of the first half against Seattle was awful. They are lucky, quite frankly, that Seattle missed that field goal because it felt like they didn't know whether they wanted to try to get points or try to run the clock and they sort of tried to do both and they wound up doing neither. Not the first time we will criticize the end of half end of game management. Go back to San Francisco and the NFC Championship game. Whether you're ordering wings for the game, whipping up a seven layer dip or ordering pizza, there's something about football that makes you want to eat. In this football season, Uber Eats has the best deals on game day food, no matter what you're craving from two for one pizza to buy one get one wings. Uber Eats will be dropping new deals each week, all season long. Uber Eats, official on-demand delivery partner of the NFL. Order now, terms and conditions apply. See out for details. But the point is, is that every team has these problems. Think Bears fans are happy with the way that they're being run. Some of the play calls and situational football that they've gone through. The Eagles? Come on, Han. One of the things that I hope that everybody did, you know, I probably shouldn't have encouraged us before the buy, was to watch other teams this weekend. Pay attention to the broader NFL. One of the things that I notice about Lions fans is that they tend to not watch as much of other teams as fans of other teams that I've covered between the Bengals, the Browns, the Colts, the Texans, places that I've lived, Washington. You know, all the other cities that I've lived in and sports markets that I've lived in, the fans there tend to pay almost too much attention to what's up, what's going on else around the league. And Detroit, maybe the Detroit versus everybody, I don't know. But it feels like Detroit fans are more insulated in what they do and what they know about the league, which is possible on his minuses. But I think one of the minuses of it is that I think that the criticism that comes about the way that Ben Johnson calls plays and critical of them to the way that Aaron Glenn calls his defenses. I'm critical of him to Dan Campbell and the clock management end of game situations. I don't think the Detroit as a whole has an appreciation that everybody complains about this. It's not just a Detroit thing. It's not a Dan Campbell thing. It's not a Ben Johnson thing. A lot of teams screw this up. Andy Reed has screwed it up not very often, but he does. To watch Kyle Shanahan blow the the minors game yesterday. It's a coach that I think a lot of people would would respect a lot. Got his ass out coached yesterday by Arizona's coach. Don't think anybody saw that coming. Buffalo's coach directly lost them their football game yesterday. Miami's coach has lost them their football games in the past. Help Houston's coach tried to lose that game to be go get away with it. So that's one of the things that I want to stress as we go forward is that every team has vulnerabilities. Every team has flaws. Yeah, there's some really good football teams out there. The Detroit Lions are one of them. I would say that they're one of the three or four best in the football in the NFL this year. They can win any game against any team anywhere. Don't forget that because they're going to drop a game or two. That's going to be okay. Other teams are going to do it too. Minnesota's not going 17. Oh no. Heck, last year, this time remember the Philadelphia Eagles? I believe they went to 90 now. They were the last they were the last team to lose. They beat early. They got spanked in the postseason. Not saying that's going to happen in Minnesota, but also not saying that that's not a possibility too. Look, they're good. I think San Francisco will still be good. I think Dallas will be formidable. The top teams in the South, whoever they might end up being, they're not going to beat themselves. Lions are going to have to go out and beat them. But you know what? With Jared Goff with Aiden Hutchinson as defensive MVP candidate, with the way Brian Branch has played this season, with the progress at cornerback and playing more comfortable in man defense, with the way that the run defense shuts teams down with the run combination that this Lions offense has, you better believe this is a good Lions football team and they can still go win the Super Bowl. Don't be afraid of it. Don't be cocky about it because they haven't done it yet. Don't be afraid of it. It's a good football team, folks. Don't forget that. Thanks for watching. Hope you liked and subscribe so you when this was coming and try to be back with you live with Chris next week, barring he and I both getting through our current situations very well. Thanks for watching. Let's bring it here together. You've had enough of that shit.