JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick
Detroit Lions on Thursday Night Football
All right. We'll get back to your calls momentarily 800 859 0 9 5 7, but we got a big Lions game tonight. A really big game, a divisional game against the Packers. One in the NFC means a whole heck of a lot for how this season ends up for the Lions, whether or not they maintain their, their place as the number one team in the NFC really trying to get that first round by really trying to get a home field throughout the playoffs would be hugely valuable. And picking up a win tonight would go a whole long way. Uh, Lomas Brown, the color analysts for the Detroit Lions radio network. And of course, uh, cohost here on sports wrap joints from this afternoon, low, big one tonight, my friend, huge, huge is the word man. I mean, this is, this is actually for first place, basically. Yeah. And with everybody on my heels, like Philip Dost. Yeah. And, um, like, like you say, green Bay and Minnesota, we have to keep pace. So big game and it's going to show us a lot the night. I don't care too wise because all these injuries we deal with, how the guys handle it. Now, I, I think when you were playing, you'd probably on paper, you look at what the defense is bringing to the table. And if you're an offensive lineman, you're probably thrilled. But Aaron Glenn has this unit playing really well. And then they brought in a couple of guys, Jamal Adams probably going to get a look at, at playing linebacker. I don't know. There, there were just so many issues on the defensive side of the ball with because of the injuries, they've just kept piling and piling up. What do you expect from, from Aaron Glenn side of the ball tonight? Yeah, I mean, I think he's done a great job too at disguising the pressures, the looks, the blitz looks. So I, I expect Aaron Glenn to continue to do that, but it's going to, it's going to have to be a collective group that gets pressure and get consistent hits and sacks and pressures on George Love. So it could be Brian brands. Um, it could be the linebackers, Campbell, you know, whoever else we have, we have available out there. It could be, we don't even know names anymore. Lomas. It's crazy. Right. It really is, man. And, you know, we know, we McNeil is going to be out there, but again, they're going to focus in on the lean. No DJ reader tonight. Exactly. So can the other guys win their one on one match ups, that's going to be a lot for us to watch tonight. And hopefully those guys will be able to, you know, I think going back a week, you know, I agree. Aaron Glen does a really, really good job from a schematic perspective. They didn't always get home. There was a lot in that game defensively where they were putting pressure on Caleb Williams, but oftentimes their blitzes did not get home. And that's when Caleb Williams kind of picked them apart. When you're bringing those pressures, you're leaving vacant, you know, empty spots on the field. And that's where the bears kind of took advantage. But that being said, with this, this, this game, if you can get to Jordan Love, if you can make things very uncomfortable for him, he will make mistakes. And your secondary, particularly Brian branches, you mentioned Kirby Joseph, those are your ball Hawks. So I would expect that back end to have a pretty big night. Yeah, they can, but the number one thing we don't have to do, Chris, we won't have to stop the run. Yeah, because that's what Green Bay wants to do. And they're kind of similar to us offensively. They want to establish the run and everything comes off the run for them. You know, again, Jordan Love's play action passes. They take, they shots off of that. You know, they have, they're up there in the league with explosive plays. So they like to take those shots. But the only way you could do it really successfully and consistently is you have to have that run game. And with Josh Jacobs back then, man, he to me, he's a, he's a clone of David Montgomery. You know what I'm saying? He has the same style, the power, he could break tackles, he can make guys myths, he can catch out the backfield. To me, he's almost like a David Montgomery for them. And so again, we're going to have to contain him. And that's what they want to do. So if we stop that run, then I'm, I agree with you everything else and fall in place as far as us getting pressure on Jordan Love. I think on the, the opposite side of things here, when you've got a defensive unit that has sustained a kind of the injuries that they have, I think it's easy for most people to say like, well, our offense is so good. We'll just go out and put up 35 points. The realities are, that is really difficult to do. And it puts a ton of pressure on the offense to really carry the thing. Now they've had complimentary football on both sides of the ball. They really have. And I think Aaron, Aaron Glenn deserves a ton of credit. But offensively tonight, I mean, it does really feel like they got to be clicking on all cylinders. Yeah, they do. And I'm going to tell you, special teams could be big for us. I mean, that could be, you know what I'm saying? When you have games like this, this type, the vision of four games where everybody knows everybody moves and schemes and they're so familiar with each other. You know, the guy going up against you, you know, what I'm saying? You know, his best moves. He knows your best moves. Sometimes it's something like special teams that can be the difference in the game like that. They hit yardage, you know, penalty yardage. The things like that, we have to look at and take that into account to Chris, because when you get a game like this tonight, the first place game of battle, which I know this is going to be those little things count like that in the end. So we're going to have to play clean. No penalties. You can't give up hitting yardage that way. And special teams has to be special tonight for us. Well, one thing I think we can probably account on is that this team's going to be physical. This team's going to go out there and and game plan at an elite level. And and they've got the horses to do it, particularly on the offensive side of the ball. Can they make things uncomfortable for Jordan Jordan love? That's what I think we got to see. Well, thank you, my friend. Good to talk with you. We'll do it again soon. Take care. All right. Have a have a good call tonight on the game. That's low Miss Brown, of course, here of sports wrap on W chair. We'll take a break three o'clock hour coming up, make way for news and more as we continue on Jay afternoon. You
December 5, 2024 ~ Chris Renwick and Lomas Brown discuss the Detroit Lions’ crucial game against Green Bay, emphasizing playoff implications, strategic execution, and overcoming defensive injuries to maintain NFC dominance.