I stand with Jared Goff as my franchise QB. All he’s done here is put up top 5 QB seasons almost every year. I know he isn’t mobile but a lot of Super Bowl winners don’t have mobile QBs. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have never been to a Super Bowl as the 2 most highly praised mobile QBs of this generation. And the narrative around Goff’s career as a Lion is wildly different if Josh Reynolds doesn’t drop 2 passes, Gibbs doesn’t botch a handoff, or Vildor doesn’t get torched vs SF in the NFC title.
Ben Johnson was OC when the Lions OL was a top-3 unit, and had the Gibbs/Dmo backfield
Petzing is dealing with a worse situation and has done more than fine
Say you don’t watch the Lions without saying you don’t watch the Lions
#OnePride
This happened 3 different times last night to Goff.
Can’t get shots to the head on the QB called. Or false starts or delay of games.
But any time a DB touches a WR it’s a DPI, illegal contact or defensive holding.
Goff with an unplayable OL tonight with all backups and getting 3.5 yards a rush has scored 24 points with a quarter to play.
If the defense was playing even a D+ game they might be winning.
But Goff never gets credit in these types of spots. Some people probably will somehow claim he’s playing bad.
I still can’t believe the NFL had the Bills and Lions and decided to put it on a Thursday Night game instead of Sunday or Monday night when both teams would firing on all cylinders
#Lions defense in the first half
0 Points Allowed
113 Yards Allowed
5 Punts on 6 Drives
1 INT
1 Fumble
Let’s enjoy the win and what the defense is capable of, it’s not like we gave up 37 to the Panthers or something #OnePride
Held the Saints to 100 yds in the 1st half
Forced 3 turnovers
Was on the field for 90 plays
Called the perfect play on the 2 pt conversion.
Hating on Shep is absurd
Week 1 was a Win.
Ugly...towards the end yes. But we saw glimpses of what BOTH the Offense and Defense can be.
It's 1 week and most of the starters barley got, if any, reps since LAST YEAR.
Relax.