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00:00This is a tough matchup for a team that does not have Aiden to begin with.
00:04It would have been tough with Aiden.
00:06I mean, this is a 5-0 Vikings team.
00:07I don't want to look past him.
00:08I know it's Sam Darnold and we don't think he's very good,
00:10but don't we have to acknowledge that what they're doing with Darnold
00:13is what we did with Goff?
00:14Bringing a guy who's a former first-round pick,
00:17support him with a run game, an offensive line, a good coordinator,
00:20great receivers, playmakers galore,
00:22and let him just kind of distribute the ball.
00:25And Minnesota stops the run and Flores dials up the pressure
00:28and the only way you really get to Goff is not necessarily blitzing,
00:32but pressuring.
00:32The blitz has to get home.
00:35I, for the first time this season,
00:37do not expect the Lions to win a football game.
00:40But it's also, the game plan defensively
00:45should be to make Sam Darnold have to go win the game.
00:50Put the pressure on him.
00:51They've not been in that position where he's had to go win a game.
00:55Sure.
00:55So if you've already signed D.J. Reader,
01:00Levi Onzarike's played well,
01:01you have re-signed and paid Aleem McNeil
01:04as the number four highest paid defensive tackle in the NFL,
01:11you go out there and you stop the run
01:13and you force Sam Darnold to be the reason
01:18that they beat the Detroit Lions.
01:19And I don't think he can be the reason that they beat the Lions.
01:23For me, it's pound town for the Lions.
01:26The Vikings had the second-rated run D in the league,
01:29but Jordan Mason did have a 100-yard game against them this year.
01:33So that seems to be a little bit of a jaded stat
01:35that they're that good.
01:37They've been up on teams and teams stopped running.
01:39Joe Mixon didn't play against them.
01:40Fair point.
01:41So it might be a fake stat.
01:42We'll see.
01:43It's a good note.
01:43So go do it, Lions, and do it.
01:45And you know how you stop a Flores defense?
01:48Because the whole key to this thing with his defense
01:50is they're showing a look
01:51and then they're doing something else, wants to snap.
01:53And that's going to put decision-making in real time on Jared Goff
01:57because he can recognize everything at the line all he wants.
01:59But the second he snaps it, they're going to do something else.
02:01That's been the key to it.
02:02That's the chaos of what they're doing.
02:05So guess what you do?
02:05You run the football.
02:06It's a great point because when they played the Bucs twice last year,
02:10blitz-heavy defense, Goff was very good.
02:13Now this year when they played the Bucs, he threw it 55 times.
02:15I don't think anybody wants to see that against a Flores defense.
02:18You need to be more balanced.
02:19I'm not saying it's got to be perfect,
02:20but they do need to run the football in this game.
02:22And there are going to be games where you just have to go out
02:24and score more than the opponent.
02:25I mean, that's the whole key, right?
02:26Is to win the game, is to score more than the opponent.
02:29But this offense is going to have to continue
02:31to be the best offense in the NFL.
02:33And it's keep away, right?
02:35It's keep your defense fresh.
02:36So when you do need them to get after the quarterback,
02:38they're not huffing and puffing and gasping for air
02:40because you win time of possession,
02:42because you keep them off the field.
02:43Justin Jefferson has to sit on the bench
02:45while you go on these 15-play drives
02:48where you bully the opposition up and down the field.
02:51It's time of possession.
02:52It's field position.
02:54And I'll take Jack Fox
02:55and being able to flip the field any day of the week.
02:57So could you argue that David Montgomery
02:59is one of the guys that has to step up most
03:01without Aiden Hutchinson?
03:02Like, obviously, the clear thing is Haskell.
03:05Yeah, and the guy we labeled as the tone setter.
03:07Right. Hell yeah.
03:08Yeah, but I think you could say Montgomery,
03:09as weird as this is, a player on the other side of the ball
03:12is one of the biggest keys
03:13for the Lions post-Aiden Hutchinson.