Speaker 1: Thirty five yards GoF deep again wide open, making the
Speaker 1: grab and taking it and.
Speaker 2: Is shak Brown second in goal.
Speaker 1: Id's gonna keep it himself touchdown Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Here it is again. You heard that talking about it.
Speaker 2: Here's the foul on Walker, but you talk about a
Speaker 2: late flag.
Speaker 1: Thirty four to twenty. The Lions owned the NFC North
Speaker 1: Detroit takes care of business in Lambeau, their fourth straight
Speaker 1: win against Attackers, the second straight time they put a
Speaker 1: herd on him on national television. These are new times
Speaker 1: and you can tell that a Packers fan, big Funk
Speaker 1: Randy Javez put that highlight package together because he included
Speaker 1: a Packers' penalty to finish it. That led to the
Speaker 1: game ceiling touchdown by David Montgomery, his third of the night.
Speaker 1: I'm Greg Rosenthal talking TNF with a new friend of
Speaker 1: the pod. Very excited to welcome JP Acosta to the show.
Speaker 1: He does great workover at sp Nation.
Speaker 2: Jp.
Speaker 1: We got a pretty gun one for you for your
Speaker 1: first time on the Round the NFL Podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome, thanks for having me. This is a fun one
Speaker 3: because this is right up my alley. This is this
Speaker 3: is a Lions offensive line run run the rock, established
Speaker 3: that defensive lines playing great. This is right up my alley.
Speaker 1: Wow, what you're at, You're like, you're at dight, Dan Campbell,
Speaker 1: tough guy. I want to run the ball. How many
Speaker 1: times did he do it tonight? Forty three times? And
Speaker 1: just dominate the line of scrimmage. That's your game.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. Football is one and lost on
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage, and Dan Campbell made sure to
Speaker 3: put an emphasis on that going into his game.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1: Although I'm gonna start on the defensive side, and they
Speaker 1: won it up front there too. We can go in
Speaker 1: a lot of directions here, and we will. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go over this game. It was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: if you're like me and have been loving this Lion's
Speaker 1: rise over the last two seasons. But I think we
Speaker 1: got to start with the first twenty two plays that
Speaker 1: the Packers ran on offense, which got us almost a halftime.
Speaker 1: Those twenty two plays, JP gained one get into negative yard.
Speaker 1: They did not gain a yard in their first twenty
Speaker 1: two plays. At that point in the game, it was
Speaker 1: twenty seven to three. The game was all but over.
Speaker 1: The Packers did what they've been doing the last couple
Speaker 1: weeks made a little interesting in the second half, But
Speaker 1: tell me from your advantage point what you saw what
Speaker 1: they did in that first half defensively, that just made
Speaker 1: the Packers look like they didn't even belong on the
Speaker 1: field with Detroit.
Speaker 3: It was so interesting just for a Packers offensive line
Speaker 3: that did not allow a lot of pressure through the
Speaker 3: first few games this season just looked completely overwhelmed against
Speaker 3: a Detroit Lions front that we remember a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago did not look that great against the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 3: Like this is a this is the second week out
Speaker 3: of two weeks set. The Lions have looked really good
Speaker 3: up front, and I think it kind of has to
Speaker 3: do with the development and the growth of the young
Speaker 3: guys they have on that side of the ball. We
Speaker 3: all know about Aiden Hutchinson, the way that he's playing
Speaker 3: to start the season. One of the things I've enjoyed
Speaker 3: that they're doing is moving him inside. You just be
Speaker 3: basically match up hunt find the best way to get
Speaker 3: your guys isowed on their weakest links, and that's something
Speaker 3: that the Lions are doing right now. Ali McNeil is
Speaker 3: playing fantastic football to start the season at defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: But it's not even those guys. You're getting good play
Speaker 3: from Benito Jones, Isaiah Bugs doing really good things in
Speaker 3: the run game. So basically you've taken the Packers entire
Speaker 3: outside zone boot action. You negated that because they cannot
Speaker 3: run the ball. So you're forcing Jordan Love to essentially
Speaker 3: become a primary drop back passer, forcing him to make
Speaker 3: the throws. And then on the back end, you know,
Speaker 3: those guys are playing really well. I think that Jordan
Speaker 3: Love sailed a few passes early. It's still very clear
Speaker 3: that he still needs time to actually like play the games,
Speaker 3: to get more, get his feet wet a little more.
Speaker 3: But it's really just the domination up front. It's been
Speaker 3: a long time since I've seen the Packers look so
Speaker 3: overwhelmed up front, especially by a Detroit Lions football team.
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more because you're right, even in this
Speaker 1: four game windustry, it's the Packers offensive line has mostly
Speaker 1: been a mainstay. Tonight, they were without back to Ari again.
Speaker 1: He was placed on injured reserve actually since we last
Speaker 1: taped a podcast, so that means he's he's kinda miss
Speaker 1: at least a few more games. That's a big, big
Speaker 1: letdown for them and raises a whole lot of questions
Speaker 1: about his contract and all this other stuff we don't
Speaker 1: need to get into. They're also without el Elton Jenkins
Speaker 1: and you mentioned it, and this is why I wanted
Speaker 1: you on JP goes deep, check out it, check them
Speaker 1: out on X on Twitter, and he's breaking down a
Speaker 1: Lee McNeil earlier this week, who is coming off a
Speaker 1: big time game and he's just thrown out Bugs and
Speaker 1: I'll throw out you know, Kaminsky had a nice stop
Speaker 1: on that two point conversion and they're winning their on
Speaker 1: one match with Charles Harris had to play. I mean
Speaker 1: they Isaiah Bugs wasn't even active a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: So that's the depth that I think Campbell and Brad
Speaker 1: Holmes when they're putting this team together, really wanted. And
Speaker 1: what's impressed me in this three and one start, and
Speaker 1: I do want to stay on the defense for now,
Speaker 1: is they've had injuries. They've had injuries on both sides,
Speaker 1: but they've especially had injuries on defense, and they've kind
Speaker 1: of built a roster that can withstand it. And they
Speaker 1: had one bad week really against Seattle where they got
Speaker 1: it handed to them for the most part defensively, but
Speaker 1: other than that, man, this is this is a different defense.
Speaker 1: Those guys are tough upfront. They're gonna make it very
Speaker 1: tough to run the ball. And they barely even tried
Speaker 1: with with Aaron Jones and aj Dillon and by the
Speaker 1: time they tried, the game was essentially over. And they've
Speaker 1: been able to withstand injuries on the back end. And
Speaker 1: that's impressive. That that's team building and that's depth because
Speaker 1: they don't really have superstars.
Speaker 2: They just have good players.
Speaker 1: Like Derek Barnes has been flashing to me all season
Speaker 1: like he's not a guy I ever really paid that
Speaker 1: much attention to, but he's been a great run stopper.
Speaker 1: And just say each spot, it's like they have guys
Speaker 1: that make sense exactly.
Speaker 3: It's more they're more they're not individual stars like you said,
Speaker 3: but they're much more than the some they're they're basically
Speaker 3: they work as a team. You know, I think the
Speaker 3: team defense up front has been so played so well.
Speaker 3: I know it's against Atlanta. The Atlanta game was really
Speaker 3: a huge test for them going into this game because
Speaker 3: both these teams want to run the ball, they want
Speaker 3: to be physical, with you up front, and the Lions
Speaker 3: basically just lined up and kick their butts the entire game.
Speaker 3: It was it was wild to see this team just
Speaker 3: essentially go in and be like, Yeah, we're just gonna
Speaker 3: We're gonna line up and you're not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to block us. And like you said, Derek Barnes playing
Speaker 3: great football. I think Jack Campbell has had really nice
Speaker 3: moments in the run and pass game. They lined them
Speaker 3: up on the edge on early downs because you know,
Speaker 3: with James Houston out for a long time with an
Speaker 3: ankle injury, they lined Jack Campbell up down on the
Speaker 3: edge on early downs, so I thought was kind of interesting.
Speaker 3: They did it a little bit last week. I think
Speaker 3: it's kind of due to their lack of depth out
Speaker 3: on the edge, but I was like, okay, I'll put
Speaker 3: a little pin in that. You know. Maybe maybe I
Speaker 3: mean Jack Campbell's like six five, two forty, maybe this
Speaker 3: will be a thing that they just keep doing. But
Speaker 3: they're working with the pieces that they have and they're
Speaker 3: turning it into a machine. Though. Front.
Speaker 1: It's like what you want out of team building because
Speaker 1: they stuck with Aaron Glenn, who's always thought to be
Speaker 1: a really promising defensive coordinator, a guy they really believed
Speaker 1: in in the results because of the roster and because
Speaker 1: they were putting it together. Weren't really there the first
Speaker 1: couple of years, and you're seeing it to come together.
Speaker 2: So I love when that happens.
Speaker 1: This is year three of their program and they've pretty
Speaker 1: much done it, and yeah, it's funny. Actually, remember when
Speaker 1: they call I remember the call where they call Campbell
Speaker 1: when he was drafted. They actually ask him like if
Speaker 1: he would ever want to line up as you know,
Speaker 1: you want to line up on the edge a little bit.
Speaker 2: You think you can do that, And he said, I'll
Speaker 2: do whatever.
Speaker 1: So they're putting into motion, they get creative, and I
Speaker 1: guess let's slip it to the Packers offense.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 1: His experience, to me, is a little bit like the
Speaker 1: Packers in general this season, Like they are Jordan Love.
Speaker 2: They're like all or nothing.
Speaker 1: They're like either falling down seventeen nothing against the Saints
Speaker 1: or they're coming back in this game. You know, they
Speaker 1: were pretty good in the third course this game. They
Speaker 1: made it interesting. There was a moment there where they
Speaker 1: had a two point conversion that would have cut it
Speaker 1: to one score. So so that they got back into
Speaker 1: it against the Falcons. The Packers h were way ahead
Speaker 1: and then they blew that lead in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: And that's that's Jordan Love to be right now.
Speaker 1: Everything is either like a big time throw and you're
Speaker 1: just like, wow, that that is impressive, And when he runs,
Speaker 1: I think, wow, he's a better runner than I expected.
Speaker 1: But the other stuff is just like the throws are
Speaker 1: either way off or it's you saw tonight when he's
Speaker 1: really faced a good front for the first time under pressure.
Speaker 1: It was just taking a little too long for the
Speaker 1: Gears to grind and and just taking some bad sacks.
Speaker 3: It was. It was an up and down performance for
Speaker 3: Jordan Love. I think there was some stuff they kind
Speaker 3: of did pretty well. I think in the second half
Speaker 3: they started to put together some drives. He started to
Speaker 3: play a little better under pressure. But I think an
Speaker 3: even larger issue than Jordan Love is kind of just
Speaker 3: I hate to say the offense in general, but you
Speaker 3: know at halftime AJ Dillon was third on the team
Speaker 3: and routes run like that's an issue for this team
Speaker 3: going forward. You cant have AJ Dillon out there running
Speaker 3: all these routes. Aaron Aaron Jones usage has been weird
Speaker 3: for the entire season. I know he's been injured, but
Speaker 3: seven snaps, five routes run at halftime in one target,
Speaker 3: that's not gonna get it done. For the best offensive
Speaker 3: player on your team, you have to find a way
Speaker 3: to consistently get him involved. I know that the run
Speaker 3: game wasn't working as much because the offensive line wasn't
Speaker 3: as good, but you have to find a way to
Speaker 3: get him involved. You have to find a way to
Speaker 3: make it a little easier for this young quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe I'll give laflaur the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 1: or with usage, because yeah, Jones was a little in
Speaker 1: and out in that first week too, and then he
Speaker 1: missed a couple week and maybe they were just easing
Speaker 1: him back into the lineup tonight. Christian Watson also returned,
Speaker 1: which was a good sign. Didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: make many catches. Four targets, two catches twenty five yards.
Speaker 1: He did have a touchdown on a good play call
Speaker 1: right at the goal line where he was wide open,
Speaker 1: and had one other play. I tried to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on him because I'm watching Do you watch the
Speaker 1: Prime Vision?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know you do. You're a dork. I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: I mean I love it like I wish I wish
Speaker 1: I had that option for every game, but I especially
Speaker 1: like it on these Thursday nights, just as a changeup
Speaker 1: so you can watch the route. Sometimes you lose track
Speaker 1: of what's going on upfront. But I was trying to
Speaker 1: watch Watson and to me, he looked good. And it's
Speaker 1: just crazy, though you're counting on this guy from where
Speaker 1: was it North Dakota State that he's like your true
Speaker 1: one with the most experienced he's like a second second
Speaker 1: year player. I think Dobbs has looked good this year,
Speaker 1: and Jaydeen Reid made it a couple of plays. But
Speaker 1: I just think this team is going to be better
Speaker 1: in December offensively than they are right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's going to take a lot of time,
Speaker 3: especially if Botiari is indeed done for the season, because
Speaker 3: that's a massive piece that you were hoping. Like the
Speaker 3: optimism for the Packers going into the season was Okay,
Speaker 3: everybody on the offensive line is going to be healthy,
Speaker 3: and now four games into the season, Jenkins has hurt
Speaker 3: Baktyaris on ir and so those are two immediately out
Speaker 3: the window.
Speaker 2: So you just have you heard anything on Baktyari or something?
Speaker 2: Is there?
Speaker 1: Is there a is there talk that he might be
Speaker 1: out for more because this this news happened today and
Speaker 1: I was surprised to see it.
Speaker 3: So I saw he was on IR. I saw they
Speaker 3: had he went under arthroscopic knee surgery, which I mean,
Speaker 3: if you want to hold him out for four games
Speaker 3: after knee surgery, like, I don't know if he's coming back,
Speaker 3: I really don't. It's the whole Baktyari thing has been
Speaker 3: very weird. I think he's been adamant about not playing
Speaker 3: on turf, which yeah, I understand not wanting to play
Speaker 3: on turf, but he's also the fourth highest paid offensive
Speaker 3: tackle in the NFL, so you need we got to
Speaker 3: actually have him playing games. And he's played one of
Speaker 3: the first four games of the season. That's not a
Speaker 3: great number. So it's just it's just been a very weird,
Speaker 3: weird time for David Botiari posts like twenty.
Speaker 1: Twenty, Okay, I am looking and I see I missed
Speaker 1: this rap sheet. Our guy at in NFL Networking, Rapports,
Speaker 1: said the latest surgery is probably a precursor for a
Speaker 1: bigger surgery later and there's all sorts of cap implications,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to eat a dead cap it
Speaker 1: if he's not on their roster next year.
Speaker 2: No matter what. It's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: You hate to see a guy who was on a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame trajectory and actually will still even have
Speaker 1: a case for it, really have his career cut short.
Speaker 1: But for this year, man, that's gonna hurt the Packers,
Speaker 1: who until this.
Speaker 2: Week hadn't really played a good pass rush.
Speaker 1: And that's why those those numbers, including Jordan's love numbers,
Speaker 1: I was was kind of looking a little side eye
Speaker 1: just because they hadn't played a team. They played the
Speaker 1: Saints last week, but I don't think of the Saints
Speaker 1: as elite pass rush. I think of them as a defense.
Speaker 1: But this week you saw it kind of come home
Speaker 1: to Russ. Let's slip it to the other side. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about some Ben Johnson. Give me your Ben Johnson take,
Speaker 1: because I thought, like most games, he had just a
Speaker 1: couple of.
Speaker 2: Plays in this game.
Speaker 1: I love the overall philosophy, but a couple of individual
Speaker 1: plays in this game where it's just like he won
Speaker 1: and he got his team points.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite play calls that they had is
Speaker 3: the Khalif Raymond reverse where Jared Goff ends up getting
Speaker 3: steamrolled by this edge rusher. I think it's Kingsley ingenbarre,
Speaker 3: but it ends up going for thirty yards because everybody
Speaker 3: else on the other side of the field near Piney
Speaker 3: Sewell leading out in front of you. That's what Johnson
Speaker 3: can do. They have their bread and butter up front
Speaker 3: with the offensive line. That's going to raise the floor
Speaker 3: of this offense. I say it a lot about the
Speaker 3: Eagles offensive line, but the Lions are right there as well.
Speaker 3: That is a game changing positional group. They can slow
Speaker 3: a game down if they want. They can completely flip
Speaker 3: the momentum of a game if they choose to, and
Speaker 3: they did it tonight. I think the Pack have been
Speaker 3: really bad defending the run out of their base personnel
Speaker 3: this year, and the Lions was like, yeah, we're just
Speaker 3: gonna get big and you're not gonna be able to
Speaker 3: stop us. They dominated in the run game. It was
Speaker 3: great to see Jonah Jackson play as well as he did.
Speaker 3: Taylor Decker on one leg still looked really well, and
Speaker 3: Pinay Sewell. I feel like every time they need a
Speaker 3: big run or they need a big play, you're run
Speaker 3: behind fifty eight and it works most of the time.
Speaker 3: But you still see what Ben Johnson can do in
Speaker 3: terms of coaxing a little more aggression out of Jared Goff.
Speaker 3: He gets them to kind of play a little bit
Speaker 3: outside of his shell. It was a lot of quick
Speaker 3: passing still, but you could see the gears kind of
Speaker 3: turning for Jared goffeel like, Okay, I can hit this
Speaker 3: throw down field if I want it. He's all I
Speaker 3: said on Twitter. He's like the king of the twelve
Speaker 3: yard dig and that's what they've built the offense around.
Speaker 3: They know that that's his comfort, that's his bread and butter.
Speaker 3: Build it around him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to get to what you said on
Speaker 1: Johnson and second, but while we're on golf, Look, you
Speaker 1: had a bad interception early, quickly bounced back, had some
Speaker 1: really nice accurate throws. One of those digs I think
Speaker 1: it was to Laporte, a nice touch pass down the
Speaker 1: sideline to Reynolds where Reynolds made a couple of just
Speaker 1: fantastic catches in this game. They're just getting contributions out
Speaker 1: of everyone. But the one thing I've noticed, and I
Speaker 1: know Jared Goff has worked on this and it's only
Speaker 1: gonna work so much. But you are getting like one
Speaker 1: pretty good second reaction play a week from Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: and it's like, Okay, I see that, Jared Goff because
Speaker 1: I didn't even get you weren't even getting that one,
Speaker 1: I don't think in Los Angeles, and he's worked on it.
Speaker 1: Where in one of them, I'm trying to think which
Speaker 1: play was it the play to a play where he's
Speaker 1: rolling to Reynolds where he got It's like, you're getting
Speaker 1: kind of one, like the play breaks down and Jared
Speaker 1: Goff makes a play a week and that I'll take it.
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. It was a rollout where he's getting pressured,
Speaker 3: rolls to his left, flips back and he throws laporta
Speaker 3: and I was like.
Speaker 1: That and he was accurate, and yeah, once in a
Speaker 1: while you'll see you'll see him check it down a
Speaker 1: little earlier than you would maybe want. But that is
Speaker 1: a small price to pay for the way he's playing overall,
Speaker 1: and they're not asking him to do much.
Speaker 2: You mentioned it.
Speaker 1: I love the way you put that that they can
Speaker 1: slow the game down. And then yeah, I watched that
Speaker 1: Seahawks Lions game and they can speed it up to
Speaker 1: when when they need to, and that, man, that's a
Speaker 1: dangerous thing to be as an offense that you can
Speaker 1: play any type of way, depending on what type of
Speaker 1: game it is, what situation you're in. And I was
Speaker 1: surprised someone tweeted out I think it was Pat Dlarready
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. They came into this
Speaker 1: game thirtieth and expected pass rate like in neutral situations,
Speaker 1: which means they are among the most run heavy teams
Speaker 1: in the league, which is surprising to me. That's not
Speaker 1: their profile, and that that's going up because they just
Speaker 1: ran the ball forty three times. I mean, I'd like
Speaker 1: to split up the carries a little more evenly, just
Speaker 1: because thirty two carries for David Montgomery coming off a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks injured, like that's not good for his
Speaker 1: long term health. And Jamir gum Gibbs was running well,
Speaker 1: so I'd like to even that out. But I can't
Speaker 1: fault them. It was working that they were moving the
Speaker 1: ball in Montgomery was running well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the thirty two carries for David Montgomery
Speaker 3: might stun a lot of people and disappoint a lot
Speaker 3: of Jamir Gibbs fantasy owners. But it makes a lot
Speaker 3: of sense for this game. For this game, Detroit knew
Speaker 3: that they were going to be the more physical team
Speaker 3: up front.
Speaker 2: I hear you.
Speaker 1: But when they're up by seventeen late, just give the
Speaker 1: last five to Gibbs.
Speaker 2: You're asking for an injury there, But I hear you. Continue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt like late in the game they were
Speaker 3: kind of getting Montgomery like, hey, we'll throw you a
Speaker 3: little bit of a bone in here, we'll get you
Speaker 3: over one hundred. But David Montgomery right now is the
Speaker 3: more physical runner between the tackles. That's where you know
Speaker 3: you can beat this Packers team. This Packers team for
Speaker 3: having seven eight however many first round picks they have
Speaker 3: on defense, the spine of that defense is really bad
Speaker 3: up the middle. And it stunned me because you have
Speaker 3: guys like Kenny Clark, who is a very very good player.
Speaker 3: You have Lucas van Nessa's played made a lot of
Speaker 3: really nice moments in the run and pass game. Rashan
Speaker 3: Gary still looks awesome, but.
Speaker 2: He looked good tonight. He's look good all year.
Speaker 3: This looks fantastic, But for some reason, this team is
Speaker 3: always bad against the run, and it goes back to
Speaker 3: I mean, you gotta look at coaching at that point.
Speaker 3: But the Lions know so well, like their bread and
Speaker 3: butter is built up front, and they can run every
Speaker 3: concept in the book. They mixed in outside zone with
Speaker 3: counter power. They do everything. They throw the oral kitchen
Speaker 3: sink at you because the offensive line can do everything.
Speaker 2: This is like just the Lions dream.
Speaker 1: Like last year on this podcast, we made them the
Speaker 1: team of the Around the NFL Podcast, and I said
Speaker 1: right afterwards, like right after it ended, it ended on
Speaker 1: such a high, big funk.
Speaker 2: I know you got the the sting back there that
Speaker 2: like I wanted to run it back. Let's just go.
Speaker 1: Let's just go a second time around, make them the
Speaker 1: team of the Around the NFL Podcast a second year.
Speaker 2: So we've never done that before, we might have to
Speaker 2: do it again.
Speaker 1: And even if we don't, I don't care. I'm going
Speaker 1: to en enjoy the journey. It's fun and you're seeing
Speaker 1: like really smart, smart guys who build a team in
Speaker 1: a certain way but also coach the team in a
Speaker 1: certain way, and and guys out there just playing with
Speaker 1: all sorts of energy and yeah, Ben Jonson like that
Speaker 1: that early touchdown to Ammon Ross Saint Brown.
Speaker 2: They knew that what was coming.
Speaker 1: They knew they were gonna burn Razulo Douglas on that play,
Speaker 1: and they did it, and that is awesome to see.
Speaker 1: One thing that was a little concerning. Brian Branch left
Speaker 1: this game. Had an ankle injury that look quite serious.
Speaker 1: He was carted off, he taped it up, returned to
Speaker 1: the game, but then left again at the end.
Speaker 2: So hopefully he's okay.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, Luke Musgrave had a concussion in this game
Speaker 1: for the Packers. I hated to see that. Sam Laporta
Speaker 1: winning that kind of rookie tight end battle. Another nice
Speaker 1: game for him, fifty six yards. To talk to me
Speaker 1: on Laporta before we get out of here, because man,
Speaker 1: I was I've been, I was honking. I have a
Speaker 1: text thread with Danny Kelly over at the Ringer that
Speaker 1: is just about Sam Laporta, because I was so big
Speaker 1: on Sam Laporta, and like at this point I'm texting
Speaker 1: saying like I'm going to be texting you when he's
Speaker 1: making his speech in Canton. That's the trajectory he's on
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: With the way that Sam Laporta has played for the
Speaker 3: first four weeks. I have never ever, ever been more
Speaker 3: convinced that Brian Farrens and the Iowa offense is offence
Speaker 3: literally an a fence to everything in football. Now you're
Speaker 3: not able to get that guy more involved or get
Speaker 3: that guy more targets. Is wild to me what the
Speaker 3: Mayas have done, and it's so cool just I think
Speaker 3: before the game, Next Gen Stats tweeted out that most
Speaker 3: of Sam Laporter's production has come on in breaking routes.
Speaker 3: They know where his bread and butter is made. After
Speaker 3: the catch, get the ball in his hands and let
Speaker 3: them run. And that's really what they're letting them do.
Speaker 3: You know, they've basically created another underneath intermediate area target
Speaker 3: for Jared Goff, but this time you've given him a
Speaker 3: bigger body, someone who can move after the catch. The
Speaker 3: play that Golf threw to him over the middle, I
Speaker 3: think the Packers were a man coverage. He beats linebacker,
Speaker 3: catches the ball, then breaks the linebacker's tackle, runs for
Speaker 3: another twenty yards. That's what Sam Laporter can do, and
Speaker 3: that's what he's shown that he's been able to do.
Speaker 3: It provides not only a safety blanket for Jared Goff, underneath,
Speaker 3: but another level of explosiveness that I really thought the
Speaker 3: Lions wouldn't be able to have with Jamison Williams out
Speaker 3: for the first six game this season, But it just
Speaker 3: so happens that they have a two hundred and fifty
Speaker 3: pounds tight end who can also provide some of that.
Speaker 1: Oh they needed it too, because you just look to
Speaker 1: you know, Reynolds is doing a nice job and Khalif
Speaker 1: Raman will pop up for a player two, but it
Speaker 1: felt like they needed someone else to throw to, and
Speaker 1: Laporta has just stepped right into that role. And I
Speaker 1: know Gibbs fantasy owners are frustrated, but I think his
Speaker 1: days will come, and the way they're using it, it's
Speaker 1: hard to really fault him. And even tonight he picked
Speaker 1: up two key third downs, one as a receiver, one
Speaker 1: as a runner where he's running through that first tackle
Speaker 1: too most of the time. So I like his day
Speaker 1: will come. I'm not worried about him and where they
Speaker 1: took him there. They're loving life. I'm loving having you
Speaker 1: on JP. We gotta do this again. You're the man
Speaker 1: staying up late in Orlando? What's the Orlando NFL seee?
Speaker 2: Like? Like, who do people even root for in Orlando.
Speaker 3: So it's a real it's a very peatri dish thing,
Speaker 3: you know, I see, I see a lot of Buccaneers fans.
Speaker 3: Tampa is like an hour hour and a half away,
Speaker 3: so there's a lot of Buccaneers fans. Not a lot
Speaker 3: of Jacksonville fans considering, but it's very heavy Tampa. Every
Speaker 3: every Tampa game is broadcast locally, and then they also
Speaker 3: get the Jaguars games. But they're very much Tampa fans.
Speaker 3: And you know, with UCF being here, it's a whole
Speaker 3: lot of a whole lot of nights and Buccaneers, which
Speaker 3: does not bode well for my FAU fandom and the
Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, you are, mister f A.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be a little bit of a comdown,
Speaker 1: I would think after the year you've had.
Speaker 3: It's been a little bit of a comdown. You know.
Speaker 3: You ride the high the Final four and next thing
Speaker 3: you know, Clemson is blasting your favorite team on the
Speaker 3: ACC network. It's it's a little rough.
Speaker 2: But again, check out JP. He's doing great stuff at
Speaker 2: eSPI Nation.
Speaker 1: You can check them out on Twitter at Acosta thirty
Speaker 1: two Underscore JP, appreciate you, appreciate the analysis, and appreciate
Speaker 1: you breaking records. You gotta, you gotta be the youngest
Speaker 1: person on the show that we've ever had because you
Speaker 1: just graduated like two years ago.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, thanks again to JP. That is it
Speaker 1: for us tonight. A great night if you're a fan
Speaker 1: of the Detroit Lions, great night really for America in general.
Speaker 1: We will be back on Sunday with the flagship show.
Speaker 1: Until then, heed the car.
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