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Speaker 2: Pro Football Talk had this. Jared Goff said it best.
Speaker 2: He said, every team gets kicked in the mouth, but
Speaker 2: the good ones respond. The only thing I might say is,
Speaker 2: in the Lions sense, you could implement great instead of good,
Speaker 2: because when all is said and done, I truly believe
Speaker 2: this team is going to be great. Some of the
Speaker 2: responses to that article were a little alarming. These three.
Speaker 2: One said, it exposed your weakness. Answer me, this, what's
Speaker 2: the weak of the Lions?
Speaker 3: Probably the middle of the defense and maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit of the pass rush now, but we'll see how
Speaker 3: that ages because you've got some reinforcement there.
Speaker 2: Well, they're referencing it's Jared Goff. Really well, that's yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: Last night it was, but I in general the weakness
Speaker 3: of the Lion.
Speaker 2: That's my point. The point is that when when somebody says, well,
Speaker 2: it exposed your weakness. Some smartasses say it, suggesting that
Speaker 2: after the article in Goff's comments, you think Jared Goff
Speaker 2: is the I'm not saying you, but I'm saying this
Speaker 2: person thinks Jared Goss the weakness a guy who was
Speaker 2: on pace to set the NFL record for completion percentage.
Speaker 2: He had a bad game, Yep, he did have. Others
Speaker 2: had bad games, absolutely.
Speaker 3: And I also think it's important to mention five picks
Speaker 3: is never good. But shep you and I have been
Speaker 3: ringing the bell for this for a while. Not every
Speaker 3: pick is on the quarterback. And a couple of those
Speaker 3: balls were batted up and then picked off, especially.
Speaker 2: The one at the one at the end of the half.
Speaker 2: I mean that's a hail mix.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, what are you gonna do? I mean, that's
Speaker 3: nothing but a box score interception.
Speaker 2: Right, So you got you got a hail Mary, you
Speaker 2: got one that was a tipped ball. I I don't
Speaker 2: two of them are them on him? Number one and
Speaker 2: number two. I'm not going to look into you know,
Speaker 2: there are certain situations. Now, look in fairness, if the
Speaker 2: Lions lose that game, this is the conversation. You understand that, right,
Speaker 2: This is the conversation. Let's not let's not pretend it
Speaker 2: didn't happen. Let's not pretend that everything is just fine,
Speaker 2: even though he threw five picks, because if they don't
Speaker 2: come back, you and I are going now, the five
Speaker 2: interceptions are inexcusable. You know that, right of course, Like
Speaker 2: we're not talking about the middle of the defense. The
Speaker 2: middle of the defense was fine last night.
Speaker 3: No, I got it. I'm just saying that if if
Speaker 3: someone wants to tell me that Jared Goff is the
Speaker 3: weakness of the Lions and that was exposed last night,
Speaker 3: well two things. A they still overcame it and it
Speaker 3: happened in to win. And B I would contend that
Speaker 3: if you believe Jared Goff is the weakness of the
Speaker 3: defense or the weakness of the Lions, excuse me. You're
Speaker 3: simply just reading the box score. You didn't want That's
Speaker 3: all you're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all you're doing. Jared Goff does have the
Speaker 2: second most interceptions in the league with nine, but so
Speaker 2: does Patrick.
Speaker 3: Mahomes and before last night he got four, and.
Speaker 2: So does so does Baker Mayfield. So that that surprised
Speaker 2: me a little bit. It exposed your weakness. Another person
Speaker 2: he's not good enough to lead to a team to
Speaker 2: a super Bowl. Well, idiot, he already has.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how can you say a guy can't do something
Speaker 3: when he quite literally already has done it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for living in a moment and not understanding
Speaker 2: all that that's done. I mean, it's just it's idiocy.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is what I suppose. This is what
Speaker 2: happens a lot of times on social media, and it
Speaker 2: sure shouldn't be. What shouldn't be one of those things
Speaker 2: where you and I take it seriously. But it just
Speaker 2: goes to show you that a lot of people do
Speaker 2: not follow certain teams. All they do is they just go,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm going to read a box score,
Speaker 2: like you said, it says five picks. I'm going to
Speaker 2: make a judgment. Now, don't take all the other things
Speaker 2: into account. Please make sure you make sure you overlook
Speaker 2: all the other things that are associated with playing the position.
Speaker 2: Like even though he wasn't good last night, he is
Speaker 2: second in the NFL and completion percentage And by the way,
Speaker 2: the only guy beating him right now has played half
Speaker 2: the games that Jared Goff has played. Because I think
Speaker 2: that's really important. I do I think completion percentage is
Speaker 2: really important. Forget about where he ranks in yards. You
Speaker 2: know he's close to the top ten in that regard,
Speaker 2: so let's you know, put it in perspective.
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