Ian did a good job breaking down the Diontea to Raven. Will never play, but counts for compensatory credit if he signs somewhere else. brilliant move by Ravens.
For real, I was hoping she would pick the commanders cause every time she picked against the lions we won! I love how a person that reads a lot of advanced stats is an expert!🙄
I, like all of us here, am a huge fan of Mina’s and she’s a credit to ESPN no doubt. But she’s been riding high on the Ravens all season and I’m looking forward to the Bills putting a dent towards her and other analysts expectations this Sunday. No matter the result, we will revisit this.
Classic reporter take. Lions beat the 14-2 Vikings by 20+ points for the 1 seed and now the Lion's D didn't play well. Maybe for the first time, they had a solid core that were able to play together, communicate and move as 1 without having to introduce a new replacement.
They blitzed heavily, and Darnold and his coaches never adjusted. That won't happen again going forward. The Viking's ineptitude in that spot masked the true depth of injury on Detroit's defense.
Mina has been a lions hater LITERALLY all year. Always focuses on the bad, never the good. If you’re a lions fan, I suggest listening to Woodward sports. That’s what I do. I don’t even know why I keep watching Mina hoping she’ll change.. instead, her takes just keep looking dumber and dumber in hindsight 🤷🏽♂️
@@Judge_Meridian Guys have started coming back, including the most important piece, Anzalone. Now they are coming off a bye week, and will have home field advantage on Defense.
As a Washington fan I must agree here..... Dan Campbell is in my opinion the biggest reason we go for it so much.... They probably don't even realize it, but somewhere along the way when DC said touchdowns are worth more points than punts it made sense to them 😅 I think the reason it's said that way honestly tho is due to the perception of each team..... Detroit is viewed as high powered and high scoring, not needing extra drives...... Washington is viewed as playing better than their roster says they should be, we were assumed to be a 4 win team this year, so people view it as us being the lesser power in games and needing to steal an extra possession or keep the ball from the other offense.... It's not that Dan doesn't have rhyme or reason but that they don't understand his reasoning as easily...... Bad team gotta go for it to try to win..... Great team going for it is "giving chances for extra possession to the opponent giving them a better chance to win" I think DC does it to keep the momentum and really squash teams hope..... I don't think they blow these teams out without going for it the way they do..... And I fkn AGREE with MCDC.... Stomp the opponent and don't let up til you're up by 35...... If they are up 28 on us and go for it on 4th down I am going to salute Dan Campbell, not complain, because it means he thinks Jayden MIGHT still be able to come back from down 28 😂😂😂 We got the two best head coaches in the game playing this week..... Should be Co-Coach of the Year...... I've got tremendous respect for the men up in Detroit.... Downtrodden and given up on just like us..... Even worse really..... Detroit DESERVES to have a great team to provide moments of happiness for their people. There is no other team in the NFL that I'd be okay with losing to and CHEER for going forward except Detroit.... It's an honor gentleman, can't wait to watch this game🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
@@christophermhudson09 The last team i wanted to face in the playoffs. JD is legit. Kinda hard not to root for Commanders this year. May it be free of injuries and Lions win off the leg of Bates from 50+….🫣🤙🏻🦁✌️
@@christophermhudson09 Great take! Jayden Daniels has been amazing as a rookie this year and will only get better. He's what scares me the most playing you guys.
I just want one of these divisional round preview shows to say something nice about the Rams lol “The Rams defense is actually really bad” that’s some top shelf analysis by Barnwell
remember when bill barnwell wrote a 10,000 word essay on how the packers would go to the superbowl only for them to get blown out in the first round? remember when mina said the vikings and packers were both better than the lions two weeks ago? lmaooooo
Last year Ravens wanted to play the Chiefs and were playing well but the truth was the Chiefs had a defense thT had the personnel to match up This Bills team doesn’t have the personnel. They will compete but Ravens should love this matchup.
@ but y’all haven’t beaten down a team this good all year but now they gonna blow out the Ravens. You should believe in your team, i respect it. But this ain’t the matchup yall want. Ravens are best at what Bills need to do to win. On the flip y’all strength isn’t stopping the run.
@@brianjeffries1668beat the Chiefs by two scores and completely controlled and ran up a lead against the Lions. Ya know…the two 1 seeds. Stop talking ball 🤣
@ beat lions by 6 and beat the chiefs by 9 I know what I’m talking about. I also know those two teams were dinged up when you clipped em. I’m not impressed at all. Yall ain’t beat another winning team all year till yall beat the 7 seed broncos Now yall at home and Vegas don’t even got yall favored. This ain’t the matchup yall want!
You guys need to start mentioning Devonta Smith more in these little talks. He is one of the most clutch WRs in the league and gets few props. He is usually mentioned as an afterthought or not at all. Rams ignore him at their peril.
It’s definitely not designed to sack the QB. It’s designed to prevent explosive plays in the passing game and to force long, sustained drives as the only way to allow TDs.
@@Samhinkieknewwell that’s play in the ravens hands cuz they want to run the clock and burn time. By playing that difference you basically letting them drive ball down methodically but at same time you tired now and now you have to tackle Lamar….trouble!!!!
According to Sean McDermott himself, his defensive scheme is designed to force teams to be patient enough to make sustained drives, then prevent TDs. Historically, McDermott's D has one of the lowest blitz % of the past 2 decades...
Week 4, BUF was missing several starters, but the Ravens also had the 29th ranked defense in the league, and now have about three new starters. The Bills made an addition to their offense since and have played better, but this was the same Ravens team that nearly gave up 30 to the Raiders and the Bills only scored 10. At the end of the day, I just don't see how the Bills stop Henry without completely selling out to do so and they just don't have the backers to deal with TWO TEs. I think the Bills are going to try and play Henry and Lamar more conservatively, instead of crashing heavy on one, and it's just going to be a slow death.
You are correct that the Rams can exploit Oren Burks, but the expectation is that Jeremiah Trotter, Jr. will replace Dean for many reasons that you identify. He is smaller, faster, better in coverage and part of the tribe through his royal lineage.
Andy Reid routinely cooks this type of defense, especially in the playoffs. Obviously, anything can happen but I wouldn’t touch that spread and would be shocked if KC covers.
Why do analysts put so much on the lions D being the difference? So we let them score 35 pts… the lions score 45. Why is no one talking about the lions #1 scoring offense?
They absolutely talked about how mismatched the commies' defense is against the Lions' offense. 6.8 ypc against nickel formations for Detroit, commies defense 26th against TEs, huge mismatch of St Brown vs their slot corner...
Mina adores mobile quarterbacks. She's gushed and defended Jordan Love all year. She's picked against the Lions in almost every big game and they have won most of them. What you can't measure with analytics is hunger and heart. The Lions are going to roll the Commanders. At least Vegas sees it.
A couple positives for the Texans this time in regards to the quick game and defending the run if we're harkening back to the previous match up...they'll have their full Front 7 healthy this time (Al-Shaair, Fatukasi) and I'm not accusing Demeco Ryans of pulling punches, but to Barnwell's points about Hollywood Brown, I don't think he'll see a lot of Jeff Okudah this time. Stingley could travel with someone, Lassiter will be back outside, and I think they'll try to be A LOT more physical this time. To Mina's point, Mahomes' legs will be huge in this one and the Chiefs are going to blitz the Texans into oblivion.
the Buc defense held Washington to 23 and 7 of that was gifted on a bad handoff. Is the Lions D worse than the Bucs? Is the Lions offense worse than the Bucs? I don't understand all the doubt.
The weather will impact the running of Barkley as well, can’t cut as well in the forces you to just basically run north south. And there’s nothing more I would like is to have hurts win the game by throwing. When the Rams have the ball, I expect McVay to mix it up, eat up the clock as much as possible and turn this into a fourth-quarter game. They have a tremendous amount of Momentum and confidence at this stage of the playoffs. They have the veteran quarterback, who has one at all that if the game is close, he can be the difference. The Eagles will probably win the game, but my gut tells me it is going to be very close ! Hey Barnwell, a route I doubt it !
The Bills will try to control the clock with runs and short passing plays. Their defense has struggled all season stopping anyone and they have survived on getting turnovers and outscoring opponents. The Broncos game was maybe their best defensive performance of the season. The weather may be a factor, but I would expect a high scoring game with the Bills winning due to home field advantage.
If you’re beating teams by two scores late, teams will be in no huddle and your defense will be in a prevent. That’s going to lead to a lot of yards. I saw the Commanders struggle in the red zone last week. That’s where the Lions defense thrives. The Commanders will score maybe 24 points. The Commanders D will hard pressed to stop the Lions from scoring 40 plus. That is why the spread is 9.5. If Jayden Daniels plays a legendary game, the Commanders will have a chance. That is the only way. Also, Goff has been elite under pressure this year. What is this dude talking about?
@ who’s being arrogant? The Lions were 15-2 on a first place schedule with a 7-2 record against winning teams, and a 222 point scoring differential. The Commanders are a good team on the rise and will be in the mix for years to come. The point spread is 9.5 points. I’d say I’m being pretty realistic. The only way the Commanders stand a chance is Daniels standing on his head.
@lionslucksportscards9835 the arrogance stems from this idea that the Commanders will be blown out, that we'll somehow need divine intervention to have any chance. Listen, the Lions have had a great season and are a great team no doubt, but the regular season means nothing in the playoffs. This will be a tough game for both teams in my opinion, and may the best team win
When did we start saying a player with 0 accolades is better or equal to a player that has multiple MVPs multiple first team all pros and multiple records broken. I seriously just don’t get it.
Divisional round weekend... the best football weekend in sports........ I have a feeling that this weekend will be UPSET SATURDAY......... dont know which Road team the Texans or Commanders will pull off the upset ...... one of them will happen.... Book it
@dalestemen2994 and yet, no one is predicting the Commanders to win. You're trying to use reverse psychology to calm your nerves, which I get, but the Lions are favored heavily buddy
16:54 that’s not the point bill with Watson and mcduffie out there in man coverage they and the Houston dbs were top 3/4 in separation vs man coverage so that is a big plus cause Watson is amazing in man coverage
Most disappointing thing about having to listen to these bad takes about Detroit, its not looking at Barnwells dumb face, its that when they're proven wrong, they will just go onto next week and talk about how the Eagles will dominant the Lions and their "Banged up Defense" Shaking my damn head
If the Texans play well, they have a good chance of pulling off the upset. If they make as many mistakes as last week, there will be no forgiveness from the Chiefs.
I honestly don't see it Not impossible but close to it Chargers have one reliable pass catcher and it showed in the game Chiefs have plenty .. Way more than Texans plus a better defense
I just don’t understand how you can consistently undersell a 15-2 football team. Mina and Curly have done it all season. He picked the lions to lose everytime he’s been on except against tHE AFC South
Was looking for something serious but hearing Lenny say the Lions are playing some of their defenders too much because "they are out of players" tells me you've not been watching Lions games closely and just looking at spreadsheets. As beat up as the Lions have been, they've shown massive shifts and improvements. The Lions have the better offense AND defense. The Commanders only chance to win IMO is by turnovers.
As a Washington fan it doesn't make sense dc gets flak for going for it ..i kinda understand but dont agree.... Dan Campbell is in my opinion the biggest reason we go for it so much.... They probably don't even realize it, but somewhere along the way when DC said touchdowns are worth more points than punts it made sense to them 😅 I think the reason it's said that way honestly tho is due to the perception of each team..... Detroit is viewed as high powered and high scoring, not needing extra drives...... Washington is viewed as playing better than their roster says they should be, we were assumed to be a 4 win team this year, so people view it as us being the lesser power in games and needing to steal an extra possession or keep the ball from the other offense.... It's not that Dan doesn't have rhyme or reason but that they don't understand his reasoning as easily...... Bad team gotta go for it to try to win..... Great team going for it is "giving chances for extra possession to the opponent giving them a better chance to win" I think DC does it to keep the momentum and really squash teams hope..... I don't think they blow these teams out without going for it the way they do..... And I fkn AGREE with MCDC.... Stomp the opponent and don't let up til you're up by 35...... If they are up 28 on us and go for it on 4th down I am going to salute Dan Campbell, not complain, because it means he thinks Jayden MIGHT still be able to come back from down 28 😂😂😂 We got the two best head coaches in the game playing this week..... Should be Co-Coach of the Year...... I've got tremendous respect for the men up in Detroit.... Downtrodden and given up on just like us..... Even worse really..... Detroit DESERVES to have a great team to provide moments of happiness for their people. There is no other team in the NFL that I'd be okay with losing to and CHEER for going forward except Detroit.... It's an honor gentleman, can't wait to watch this game🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
If the Bills want to win, just go spread and throw every down. The Ravens are still swiss cheese against the pass especially on the outside. The run is a trap against this team. It's a wasted down. Just throw it down field.
As always - the brainy-est NFL pod out there. If you're going to do analysis, do it like this. Amidst all of this bulls*** talk about "who is qualified to talk football with former players - i.e. people in 'the know' v. Eye Candy that Sells, Mina Kimes continues to represent for folks who didn't play, but who are dedicated to data and the analysis that it bears - but who also is a fan of the games, and is all in the sport. There is an especially dangerous trend I've noticed on social media in wake of the Charlie Dixon/Skip Bayless lawsuit, to suddenly start questioning the very existence of women in NFL analysis. Mina Kimes lays waste to all that type of retrograde opinion, I believe.
There are zero analytics for leadership. MCDC has these players play above their analytics. Good luck commanders. Yall gonna need 35 points at minimum.
@@Jaredtalksfootball i agree w you and never said Quinn didn’t, just talking about the Lions🤙🏻. Ive been rooting for yall besides this coming game. Maybe dont take things outta context…
@@Jaredtalksfootball Lions will for sure put up 37 plus points, both Ds are suspect. Gonna be a barn burner. I really meant “good luck”, i like commanders this year.
Here we go, always dogging the Lions until we win then you sit around and giggle - "whoopsy" - fool me once. No more. You guys are homers for anybody else.
Honestly, I feel like Mina needs to leave ESPN and just join Nick Wright on FTF, and they both can just bash the Lions the entire time together. MINA, Goff went 18 for 18 not because of the Seahawks injuries, but because HE'S A GREAT QB! If it was easy to do that, every team would be perfect against the Lions, they've been vasty more injured than the Seahawks were in that game. Why you hate the Lions, I'll never really understand.
It's mind boggling how much time is spent bashing the Lions defense week after week after mind numbing week and yet here they are at 15 - 2 tied for the best record in the entire league and playing at home, but let's not spend a single second talking about any of that. It's as if pundits are praying for them to lose so you all can say, see, I told you that defense wasn't going to hold up. smh
1.) They're not taking Buffalo lightly. 2.) Nobody is even implying that. But the Ravens are a terrible matchup for the Bills. Even with the returning defenders, the way that defense is built, plays into the hands of what the Ravens want to do. AND, they will have to play more base than they want, to even have the best chance of stopping it.
@@segagenesis7708They quite literally ARE implying that, pretty much saying that the Bills will lose and giving reason after reason as to why. That is taking us lightly 😂😂
Darnold left four TD passes out there? You know you can only score 1 TD per possession right? What are we talking about here? He missed multiple on the same possession, with Brian branch jumping into his space. Jayden is about to hit a wall. Well give up the 50 rush yards to him. Good luck in the redzone, we know they’ll move the ball. But are they scoring 35? Not a chance in hell.
So Bill Barnwell sees the Eagles blowing out the Rams. Rams are a much better team than the first time the Eagles played them. Wouldn’t surprise me if the Rams not only cover but win.
How are they better? They were hot going into week 12 and got crushed. No part of their game matches up well with Philly, and now they're playing on the east coast with a short rest. Any given Sunday and all, but they're badly outclassed
Really great co-host chemistry in this podcast. This is truly my favorite pregame preview show for the NFL!
24:38 won’t let that almost Dan Humphrey reference go unnoticed. Mina has been outed as a Gossip Girl fan 🐐
Ian did a good job breaking down the Diontea to Raven. Will never play, but counts for compensatory credit if he signs somewhere else. brilliant move by Ravens.
Mina has done her best to poke holes in Detroit all year! She’s not bad at it!
Mina is about as much as hater as Nick Wright.
For real, I was hoping she would pick the commanders cause every time she picked against the lions we won! I love how a person that reads a lot of advanced stats is an expert!🙄
Y'all might be forgetting the Lions are playing at home with the No Huddle take. Communication is going to be tough!
I, like all of us here, am a huge fan of Mina’s and she’s a credit to ESPN no doubt. But she’s been riding high on the Ravens all season and I’m looking forward to the Bills putting a dent towards her and other analysts expectations this Sunday. No matter the result, we will revisit this.
Classic reporter take. Lions beat the 14-2 Vikings by 20+ points for the 1 seed and now the Lion's D didn't play well. Maybe for the first time, they had a solid core that were able to play together, communicate and move as 1 without having to introduce a new replacement.
They blitzed heavily, and Darnold and his coaches never adjusted. That won't happen again going forward. The Viking's ineptitude in that spot masked the true depth of injury on Detroit's defense.
Mina has been a lions hater LITERALLY all year. Always focuses on the bad, never the good. If you’re a lions fan, I suggest listening to Woodward sports. That’s what I do. I don’t even know why I keep watching Mina hoping she’ll change.. instead, her takes just keep looking dumber and dumber in hindsight 🤷🏽♂️
@@Judge_Meridian Guys have started coming back, including the most important piece, Anzalone. Now they are coming off a bye week, and will have home field advantage on Defense.
I suggest they look at the Detroit defensive numbers before and after the Anzalone injury. He is so underrated
Great point - he was all over the field against the Vikes.
So when Dan Quinn goes for it on 4th down it's "strategic" but when Dan Campbell does it there "isn't any rhyme or reason" for doing it??
Biases are hard to overcome even for the best analysts. 🦁🤙🏻✌️
As a Washington fan I must agree here..... Dan Campbell is in my opinion the biggest reason we go for it so much.... They probably don't even realize it, but somewhere along the way when DC said touchdowns are worth more points than punts it made sense to them 😅
I think the reason it's said that way honestly tho is due to the perception of each team..... Detroit is viewed as high powered and high scoring, not needing extra drives...... Washington is viewed as playing better than their roster says they should be, we were assumed to be a 4 win team this year, so people view it as us being the lesser power in games and needing to steal an extra possession or keep the ball from the other offense....
It's not that Dan doesn't have rhyme or reason but that they don't understand his reasoning as easily...... Bad team gotta go for it to try to win..... Great team going for it is "giving chances for extra possession to the opponent giving them a better chance to win"
I think DC does it to keep the momentum and really squash teams hope..... I don't think they blow these teams out without going for it the way they do..... And I fkn AGREE with MCDC.... Stomp the opponent and don't let up til you're up by 35......
If they are up 28 on us and go for it on 4th down I am going to salute Dan Campbell, not complain, because it means he thinks Jayden MIGHT still be able to come back from down 28 😂😂😂
We got the two best head coaches in the game playing this week..... Should be Co-Coach of the Year...... I've got tremendous respect for the men up in Detroit.... Downtrodden and given up on just like us..... Even worse really..... Detroit DESERVES to have a great team to provide moments of happiness for their people.
There is no other team in the NFL that I'd be okay with losing to and CHEER for going forward except Detroit.... It's an honor gentleman, can't wait to watch this game🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
@ 🤙🏻🦁✌️
@@christophermhudson09 The last team i wanted to face in the playoffs. JD is legit. Kinda hard not to root for Commanders this year. May it be free of injuries and Lions win off the leg of Bates from 50+….🫣🤙🏻🦁✌️
@@christophermhudson09 Great take! Jayden Daniels has been amazing as a rookie this year and will only get better. He's what scares me the most playing you guys.
43:58 don’t sleep on Jeremiah trotter jr🤫
Bill Barnwell’s season long gleeful doubt of the Lions is certainly a sight to see.
@NevaKeuroglianSullivan no one has the Commanders winning, so Barnwell may be one of one in that regard
I just want one of these divisional round preview shows to say something nice about the Rams lol “The Rams defense is actually really bad” that’s some top shelf analysis by Barnwell
How about the 3rd worst EPA outside the red zone? That's a stat they provided about the Rams' weak defense
@@jeffnielsen5230 This is super out of character for him. Usually he tends to not trust Jalen Hurts so I was shocked.
GoodMorning Mina and Bill, Happy Thursday
remember when bill barnwell wrote a 10,000 word essay on how the packers would go to the superbowl only for them to get blown out in the first round?
remember when mina said the vikings and packers were both better than the lions two weeks ago? lmaooooo
Last year Ravens wanted to play the Chiefs and were playing well but the truth was the Chiefs had a defense thT had the personnel to match up
This Bills team doesn’t have the personnel. They will compete but Ravens should love this matchup.
Oh, no, no. Bills are gonna smoke the Ravens at home. You will see! 32-17 Bills
@ but y’all haven’t beaten down a team this good all year but now they gonna blow out the Ravens.
You should believe in your team, i respect it.
But this ain’t the matchup yall want.
Ravens are best at what Bills need to do to win.
On the flip y’all strength isn’t stopping the run.
@Rob_G716 no, they aren't going to smoke them.
@@brianjeffries1668beat the Chiefs by two scores and completely controlled and ran up a lead against the Lions. Ya know…the two 1 seeds. Stop talking ball 🤣
@ beat lions by 6 and beat the chiefs by 9
I know what I’m talking about.
I also know those two teams were dinged up when you clipped em.
I’m not impressed at all.
Yall ain’t beat another winning team all year till yall beat the 7 seed broncos
Now yall at home and Vegas don’t even got yall favored.
This ain’t the matchup yall want!
First , LETS GO BILLS. I love you Josh Allen.♥
16:59 Jaylen Watson was playing as a top 10 CB before getting hurt mid-season.
You guys need to start mentioning Devonta Smith more in these little talks. He is one of the most clutch WRs in the league and gets few props. He is usually mentioned as an afterthought or not at all. Rams ignore him at their peril.
P.S. He didn't play last time versus Rams. And yeah, he is playing.
The Bills base defense is nickel/big nickel. It is designed to sack quarterbacks, not stop the run. This feels like a nightmare matchup for Buffalo.
It’s definitely not designed to sack the QB. It’s designed to prevent explosive plays in the passing game and to force long, sustained drives as the only way to allow TDs.
Ravens are the worst possible matchup for the Bills
@@Samhinkieknewwell that’s play in the ravens hands cuz they want to run the clock and burn time. By playing that difference you basically letting them drive ball down methodically but at same time you tired now and now you have to tackle Lamar….trouble!!!!
According to Sean McDermott himself, his defensive scheme is designed to force teams to be patient enough to make sustained drives, then prevent TDs.
Historically, McDermott's D has one of the lowest blitz % of the past 2 decades...
it was the first time for them and I don't see why it'll be all that different the second time.
Week 4, BUF was missing several starters, but the Ravens also had the 29th ranked defense in the league, and now have about three new starters. The Bills made an addition to their offense since and have played better, but this was the same Ravens team that nearly gave up 30 to the Raiders and the Bills only scored 10. At the end of the day, I just don't see how the Bills stop Henry without completely selling out to do so and they just don't have the backers to deal with TWO TEs. I think the Bills are going to try and play Henry and Lamar more conservatively, instead of crashing heavy on one, and it's just going to be a slow death.
You are correct that the Rams can exploit Oren Burks, but the expectation is that Jeremiah Trotter, Jr. will replace Dean for many reasons that you identify. He is smaller, faster, better in coverage and part of the tribe through his royal lineage.
Still haven't learned about the Lions and that coaching staff I see, shame
Andy Reid routinely cooks this type of defense, especially in the playoffs. Obviously, anything can happen but I wouldn’t touch that spread and would be shocked if KC covers.
Holy shit, if that was without Ward and Pitre, next season we’re going to see the Texans have the best secondary in the nfl
Jeremiah Trotter Jr. Will be playing linebacker as well. He has better eyes than Burks.
I love Mina and I know its not personal but damn....Detroit vs. Everybody 😈
Why do analysts put so much on the lions D being the difference? So we let them score 35 pts… the lions score 45. Why is no one talking about the lions #1 scoring offense?
You have to have at least a decent defense to win a super bowl. Ask Peyton Manning if being a great offensive team only is sustainable.
They absolutely talked about how mismatched the commies' defense is against the Lions' offense. 6.8 ypc against nickel formations for Detroit, commies defense 26th against TEs, huge mismatch of St Brown vs their slot corner...
Washington runs no huddle but they substitute so it lets the defense substitute and it’s not really giving them an advantage
She is CRAZY
Mina adores mobile quarterbacks. She's gushed and defended Jordan Love all year. She's picked against the Lions in almost every big game and they have won most of them. What you can't measure with analytics is hunger and heart. The Lions are going to roll the Commanders. At least Vegas sees it.
Lions defense will be fine. They are too well coached.
Stop talking about tendencies/results from week 4!!!! Missing half of your defense will force you to play in an unoptimized fashion. Enough.
35-10….
A couple positives for the Texans this time in regards to the quick game and defending the run if we're harkening back to the previous match up...they'll have their full Front 7 healthy this time (Al-Shaair, Fatukasi) and I'm not accusing Demeco Ryans of pulling punches, but to Barnwell's points about Hollywood Brown, I don't think he'll see a lot of Jeff Okudah this time. Stingley could travel with someone, Lassiter will be back outside, and I think they'll try to be A LOT more physical this time. To Mina's point, Mahomes' legs will be huge in this one and the Chiefs are going to blitz the Texans into oblivion.
the Buc defense held Washington to 23 and 7 of that was gifted on a bad handoff. Is the Lions D worse than the Bucs? Is the Lions offense worse than the Bucs? I don't understand all the doubt.
The weather will impact the running of Barkley as well, can’t cut as well in the forces you to just basically run north south.
And there’s nothing more I would like is to have hurts win the game by throwing.
When the Rams have the ball, I expect McVay to mix it up, eat up the clock as much as possible and turn this into a fourth-quarter game.
They have a tremendous amount of Momentum and confidence at this stage of the playoffs.
They have the veteran quarterback, who has one at all that if the game is close, he can be the difference.
The Eagles will probably win the game, but my gut tells me it is going to be very close !
Hey Barnwell, a route I doubt it !
The Bills will try to control the clock with runs and short passing plays. Their defense has struggled all season stopping anyone and they have survived on getting turnovers and outscoring opponents. The Broncos game was maybe their best defensive performance of the season. The weather may be a factor, but I would expect a high scoring game with the Bills winning due to home field advantage.
MVP chants on a Tush Push will be shameful
If you’re beating teams by two scores late, teams will be in no huddle and your defense will be in a prevent. That’s going to lead to a lot of yards. I saw the Commanders struggle in the red zone last week. That’s where the Lions defense thrives. The Commanders will score maybe 24 points. The Commanders D will hard pressed to stop the Lions from scoring 40 plus. That is why the spread is 9.5. If Jayden Daniels plays a legendary game, the Commanders will have a chance. That is the only way. Also, Goff has been elite under pressure this year. What is this dude talking about?
😂😂😂😂😂 ok
@ we’ll see who’s laughing Saturday night Ronnie.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@lionslucksportscards9835 we will, just make sure you keep this same, arrogant energy late Saturday night
@ who’s being arrogant? The Lions were 15-2 on a first place schedule with a 7-2 record against winning teams, and a 222 point scoring differential. The Commanders are a good team on the rise and will be in the mix for years to come. The point spread is 9.5 points. I’d say I’m being pretty realistic. The only way the Commanders stand a chance is Daniels standing on his head.
@lionslucksportscards9835 the arrogance stems from this idea that the Commanders will be blown out, that we'll somehow need divine intervention to have any chance. Listen, the Lions have had a great season and are a great team no doubt, but the regular season means nothing in the playoffs. This will be a tough game for both teams in my opinion, and may the best team win
The weather may impact the Rams significantly
Good morning!
So the Bills are cooked. Go Bills.
Mina I just fell to my knees in bass pro shops
Should the Bills even show up and play, sounds like they should just give the Ravens the win lol.
When did we start saying a player with 0 accolades is better or equal to a player that has multiple MVPs multiple first team all pros and multiple records broken. I seriously just don’t get it.
Divisional round weekend... the best football weekend in sports........ I have a feeling that this weekend will be UPSET SATURDAY......... dont know which Road team the Texans or Commanders will pull off the upset ...... one of them will happen.... Book it
Good luck running no huddle in Detroit with 130+ decibel roaring
Bills 27 Bitds 24. 17 is the true MVP!!
Commanders are the new shiny object. The media loves going after new shiny objects, lions all day.
@dalestemen2994 and yet, no one is predicting the Commanders to win. You're trying to use reverse psychology to calm your nerves, which I get, but the Lions are favored heavily buddy
@ Ill be at the game Saturday. Don’t think I would have spent that much money if I thought they were going to lose. Lions all day as I said before.
16:54 that’s not the point bill with Watson and mcduffie out there in man coverage they and the Houston dbs were top 3/4 in separation vs man coverage so that is a big plus cause Watson is amazing in man coverage
You’ve lost all credibility for voting against Josh Allen for MVP
Mina underestimating the Lions again...
Go Bills!
Barnwell in da house! Great guest 😊
Most disappointing thing about having to listen to these bad takes about Detroit, its not looking at Barnwells dumb face, its that when they're proven wrong, they will just go onto next week and talk about how the Eagles will dominant the Lions and their "Banged up Defense"
Shaking my damn head
EAGLES CB1, WR2 and LT did not play against the Rams in LA when the Eagles won by 17! No one ever brings this up. Eagles by 14 on Sunday!
Bill Barnwell - the OG of NFL advanced metrics in sports reporting at ESPN!
Oh yeahhhh
If the Texans play well, they have a good chance of pulling off the upset. If they make as many mistakes as last week, there will be no forgiveness from the Chiefs.
I honestly don't see it
Not impossible but close to it Chargers have one reliable pass catcher and it showed in the game Chiefs have plenty .. Way more than Texans plus a better defense
I just don’t understand how you can consistently undersell a 15-2 football team. Mina and Curly have done it all season. He picked the lions to lose everytime he’s been on except against tHE AFC South
Thanks Mina for being the ONLY football-talker-person to actually call out Brandon Stephens as THE weak link for the Ravens.
Was looking for something serious but hearing Lenny say the Lions are playing some of their defenders too much because "they are out of players" tells me you've not been watching Lions games closely and just looking at spreadsheets. As beat up as the Lions have been, they've shown massive shifts and improvements. The Lions have the better offense AND defense. The Commanders only chance to win IMO is by turnovers.
Sonic and Jnuckles against the 30th ranked run defence is gonna kill commanders. Sewell will be moving his man at will by the 4th.
Did he just call Roger Rosengarten a weak point?!
Who gonna beat the chiefs? we will see i don't have the answer.
Only in hopes of getting a draft pick in 2026 and nobody can pick him up foe the Playoffs to play against the Ravens
If you're a Bills/Ravens fan, are you rooting to face the Chiefs or would you rather the Texans?
Ravens fan here. Give me the Chefs. The Ravens are on a Kill Bill grudge run.
lol funny
Bills fan: the Texans.
We already beat the Texans in the playoffs last year and put foots in them on Christmas day.
I want the Chiefs so we can put all doubts to rest.
As a Washington fan it doesn't make sense dc gets flak for going for it ..i kinda understand but dont agree.... Dan Campbell is in my opinion the biggest reason we go for it so much.... They probably don't even realize it, but somewhere along the way when DC said touchdowns are worth more points than punts it made sense to them 😅
I think the reason it's said that way honestly tho is due to the perception of each team..... Detroit is viewed as high powered and high scoring, not needing extra drives...... Washington is viewed as playing better than their roster says they should be, we were assumed to be a 4 win team this year, so people view it as us being the lesser power in games and needing to steal an extra possession or keep the ball from the other offense....
It's not that Dan doesn't have rhyme or reason but that they don't understand his reasoning as easily...... Bad team gotta go for it to try to win..... Great team going for it is "giving chances for extra possession to the opponent giving them a better chance to win"
I think DC does it to keep the momentum and really squash teams hope..... I don't think they blow these teams out without going for it the way they do..... And I fkn AGREE with MCDC.... Stomp the opponent and don't let up til you're up by 35......
If they are up 28 on us and go for it on 4th down I am going to salute Dan Campbell, not complain, because it means he thinks Jayden MIGHT still be able to come back from down 28 😂😂😂
We got the two best head coaches in the game playing this week..... Should be Co-Coach of the Year...... I've got tremendous respect for the men up in Detroit.... Downtrodden and given up on just like us..... Even worse really..... Detroit DESERVES to have a great team to provide moments of happiness for their people.
There is no other team in the NFL that I'd be okay with losing to and CHEER for going forward except Detroit.... It's an honor gentleman, can't wait to watch this game🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
Lions and commanders fans, don’t trip. Bobby Wagner is playing
Cool.
If the Bills want to win, just go spread and throw every down. The Ravens are still swiss cheese against the pass especially on the outside. The run is a trap against this team. It's a wasted down. Just throw it down field.
Can't wait for the Lions to run the table and make everyone of this broadcasters shut up. Mina is always an anti-Lions
Go Bills ❤️💙🤍
Oh wow I am so shocked Mina is disrespecting the Lions again and water is wet
As always - the brainy-est NFL pod out there. If you're going to do analysis, do it like this.
Amidst all of this bulls*** talk about "who is qualified to talk football with former players - i.e. people in 'the know' v. Eye Candy that Sells, Mina Kimes continues to represent for folks who didn't play, but who are dedicated to data and the analysis that it bears - but who also is a fan of the games, and is all in the sport.
There is an especially dangerous trend I've noticed on social media in wake of the Charlie Dixon/Skip Bayless lawsuit, to suddenly start questioning the very existence of women in NFL analysis.
Mina Kimes lays waste to all that type of retrograde opinion, I believe.
The lions ran the 6 man line before the Bears in 18'
There are zero analytics for leadership. MCDC has these players play above their analytics. Good luck commanders. Yall gonna need 35 points at minimum.
Dan Quinn also has our guys way above their analytics. I’d open your mind a little more lol
@@Jaredtalksfootball i agree w you and never said Quinn didn’t, just talking about the Lions🤙🏻. Ive been rooting for yall besides this coming game. Maybe dont take things outta context…
@@Jaredtalksfootball Lions will for sure put up 37 plus points, both Ds are suspect. Gonna be a barn burner. I really meant “good luck”, i like commanders this year.
Here we go, always dogging the Lions until we win then you sit around and giggle - "whoopsy" - fool me once. No more. You guys are homers for anybody else.
Oh wow mina dumps on the lions again. Shocking.
Honestly, I feel like Mina needs to leave ESPN and just join Nick Wright on FTF, and they both can just bash the Lions the entire time together. MINA, Goff went 18 for 18 not because of the Seahawks injuries, but because HE'S A GREAT QB! If it was easy to do that, every team would be perfect against the Lions, they've been vasty more injured than the Seahawks were in that game. Why you hate the Lions, I'll never really understand.
The Lions are going to beat the breaks off of Washington 34-17
It's mind boggling how much time is spent bashing the Lions defense week after week after mind numbing week and yet here they are at 15 - 2 tied for the best record in the entire league and playing at home, but let's not spend a single second talking about any of that. It's as if pundits are praying for them to lose so you all can say, see, I told you that defense wasn't going to hold up. smh
If the Bills play light boxes against the Ravens, they are going to get wrecked!!
I like Bill he's funny
Ravens win and it won’t be close until maybe some garbage time scoring by the bills
This terrible take convinced me the lions are going to crush the redskins
You guys are acting like Baltimore has nothing to worry about,if they take us us lightly Bills are gonna stampede all over the the purple birds😂😂😂😂
No one here is saying that. The reality is that The Bills on paper are at a large disadvantage against the Ravens.
@marcusjones9084 agreed 👍
1.) They're not taking Buffalo lightly. 2.) Nobody is even implying that. But the Ravens are a terrible matchup for the Bills. Even with the returning defenders, the way that defense is built, plays into the hands of what the Ravens want to do. AND, they will have to play more base than they want, to even have the best chance of stopping it.
@@segagenesis7708They quite literally ARE implying that, pretty much saying that the Bills will lose and giving reason after reason as to why. That is taking us lightly 😂😂
Darnold left four TD passes out there? You know you can only score 1 TD per possession right? What are we talking about here?
He missed multiple on the same possession, with Brian branch jumping into his space.
Jayden is about to hit a wall. Well give up the 50 rush yards to him. Good luck in the redzone, we know they’ll move the ball. But are they scoring 35? Not a chance in hell.
Sounds like a homer take. Lions defense was amazing against the vikes, but that doesn't automatically make them the best defense all of a sudden
"Not a chance" lol. Stay humble
Bro, you know damn well she means as a whole. Tf 🤣🤣🤦🏻♂️
Your a weird guy go outside
So Bill Barnwell sees the Eagles blowing out the Rams. Rams are a much better team than the first time the Eagles played them. Wouldn’t surprise me if the Rams not only cover but win.
they didnt lose because of bad teamwork or anything; they just got physically wore down, something like that doesnt change in just a couple weeks
@ - They played before Thanksgiving.
How are they better? They were hot going into week 12 and got crushed. No part of their game matches up well with Philly, and now they're playing on the east coast with a short rest.
Any given Sunday and all, but they're badly outclassed
Devonta, Mailata and Slay did not play against the Rams. Eagles by 14 in the Snow game!!
way to gay
who the hell is this barnwell guy? what's his credentials? Also why does Mina insist on being a Lions Hater
Ben and AG already out the door. Don't bet they'll show up the rest of the season. Feel sorry for Lions fans their coaches gave up.on them already.
Lay off the crack
Mina endorsed Karen Bass for mayor 😂😂😂 🤡🌎
Who cares and who asked?
@@HuKayersshows how poor her judgment is and her garbage worldview. But yeah “nfl analyst” or something. 😂😂😂