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This total now sit at 54.5 in the line. That's down to 3 points as a favorite for the Lions. Must-win situation, Joe, for each one of these teams, but one team coming in hot and healthy, one team coming in not so hot and banged up. That's the Lions. The lines have a lot of issues, uh, here, and I know folks, it's easy. Everyone wants to be like, well, you know, they're gonna flip a switch and No, they're not. And and the first giant red flag for me, Donnie, was, and, and, you know, keep in mind, you think it's easy to replace coordinators every couple of years, Donnie? Like, you not only lost your OC, but you lost your DC as well. People seem to forget. And that is why Detroit's defense, Donnie, have you noticed, they always seem to be playing from behind now. They've allowed 13 or more first half points in 4 of their last 5. Games, Donnie. And you know who they've played? The Commanders, the Vikings, the Giants, uh, the who showed Eagles, Packers offenses that are not the strong suit. And yet I don't think any one of those teams holds a candle offensively to the Cowboys here. And if they become, if they're down again early in this game, Donnie, they have decided that they're gonna try to run the ball more than pass the ball. Have you noticed that also with Jared? And Dan Campbell because he knows his offensive line, very suspect, and Jared Goff could be a sitting guy. He doesn't have uh a Mosa Brown anymore. He doesn't have Laporte. They are very limited right now what they can do offensively. And like I said a couple of weeks ago, Donnie, how many 80 yards Jamar Gibbs runs are going to bail you out? How many more does he have in them before teams are like, yeah, that's, that's not going to happen. And that could very well happen again here tonight. Yeah, Dallas doesn't have a great secondary. So if you had Aman Ras Saint Brown available along with Jamison Williams, that's a really good threat where that play action pass can really kick butt. And also understand this. Aman Ras Saint Brown is like that safety blanket. He's open on every single play, and they scheme him open. He's a fantastic wideout. He's not there. So now you have Kennedy in the slot and to slot on the outside there. It's like, what are we doing then? OK, let's go back to our tight end. Ross Dweli. I mean, you, there's nothing out there as opposed to Jared Goff has. To be perfect, his wide receivers have to line up and if you do have a bad secondary, which Dallas does, you roll coverage to Williams and you force two guys that aren't used to beating anybody into beating you, and then you leave it up to Javier Gibbs, who's sensational might be the best back in football, most explosive, but if you know the run is coming, you can have 8 men in the box. You can't do that when you have a healthy wide receiving core for the Detroit Lions. Let's see what happens on that offensive side tonight, which then puts the quarterbacks for us tonight, Joe, into focus. If we're looking at the passing props. Each one of these guys live, 25, 2.5 for Jared Goff. Dak Prescott 269.5. If I'm looking at those two totals for me, Joe, you understand like Dak and the Dallas Cowboys, wonderful wideouts. He's cooking at quarterback. He probably gets that because their MOs. We're gonna pass, pass, we're gonna pass some more, and you just can't stop us here. But from a Detroit perspective, you should look at Jarret Goff and say, yeah, I told in this game you have to counter. But I don't see that as a point, Joe. If Jared Goff throws for 270 in this game. That means Williams went absolutely off for one of those other two wide receivers stepped up. I look for Jarrod Goff. If Detroit wants to win this game, I don't think he can go over 2525, which means that running game really boosted them tonight in their game. They're gonna have to, which I think is also a reason, Donnie, why we're starting to see the under money come in, right? We're starting to see this was as high as 54.5, Donny, and that's OK if you had the full complement of weapons here. But if Detroit's game plan is, listen, we've got to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, and maybe take a couple of shots down the field. The only problem is you're taking on a Dallas defense that the minute they got Quinnin Williams, you know what, Donnie, since he's gotten there, they're a top 5 team against the run. You are not running against the Dallas Cowboys front there. That's the problem. And you're already, you, you tried to bring a guy off the couch, who retired a year ago, Donny. You tried to bring a dude off. The couch to come back and help you, and he couldn't pass the physical. That's the state of the offense right now for Detroit, and I don't think it's going to get any better anytime soon, and Styles make fights, right? This right now tonight, this is a, this is an issue with the way the style that they play defense, Dallas and offense, it's an issue for this Detroit team right now.

Lions Struggle with Team Health and Defensive Gameplans

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