Lions - Vikings was must watch football and could be a sign of things to come | Inside Coverage
Yahoo Sports' Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss how Lions vs. Vikings was football at its best. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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We got two badass football teams playing badass football game.
I want to see that game every single Sunday.
My big takeaway from this was both of these teams are fully capable of winning a Super Bowl.
The Lions are legit like the Lions are really, really good.
Look, we don't know how the defense is going to be the rest of the season, especially with the Aid Hutchinson injury and they did give up some points here today, but when the chips were down, they got the stop they need and Jared Goff led the Lions to a game winning field goal.
Just an unbelievable game.
It just really, really entertaining from Dan Campbell's fake punt on the first drive of the game.
Like by the way, Dan, nobody's fooled anymore.
You don't have any element of surprise.
We all know you're gonna fake at least once a game.
It seems so in this game, Jagoff 22 of 25 280 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, 100 40 rating.
Jared Goff is, is gonna get in this MVP conversation right now to go on the road and beat that Vikings team after a lot of win against you.
You had you down 10 zip early in the game, partially because of that fake punt, Dave Montgomery gets the ball pina punched out fumble return for a touchdown.
You're losing late in the game.
You have to punt late in the game because you take a sack.
All these things were adding up on them and they just keep battling back, battling back more than the standings.
I thought that this team faced so many moments in this game where I think most other teams in the NFL would have faded away.
But I was watching this thing thinking man, if I'm about to get a generation of Imam Rose Brown versus Justin Jefferson with some version of anything you can do, I can do better.
Like I just, you want to talk about two guys that just came into this thing and said you will not cover me.
I I it was, it was remarkable and you're talking about two defenses that knew that that's what they had to take away and neither one could, both quarterbacks were really efficient, efficient with where they put the ball efficient with how they placed the ball efficient with their passing numbers overall.
Like the stats don't always tell the story.
And in this game, they do, both teams took punches and both teams gave punches.
They, they managed to lose momentum and regain momentum.
Like these are the things you want to see from teams that aren't just good teams that are great.
I didn't care if the kick got made at the end at all.
What I cared about was, man, we are seeing two teams that are showing you they're built for January football.
This was brilliant football.
It was a, a brilliant day for Jared Goff and knowing exactly what he does, knowing exactly what they needed him to do, know exactly who he is as a player like this team has become such the identity of Dan Campbell because they are all comfortable exactly with who they are.
And it's, it's fun to watch, man.