The Detroit Lions Struggles and Adversity are Paying Off

Darren McCarty and Matt Sheppard discuss how the Detroit Lions have gone through enough adveristy in a three-year span to galvanize the the team they are today. Do you think the Lions are preparred to make a Super Bowl run? Like, Subscribe and leave your comment below!

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I I know Darren mccardy and lindsy Hunter yesterday and brayan Edwards last week with me I I know you guys don’t like talking about yourselves but I I do have to ask you I remember covering you guys during that incredible stretch the thing that I noticed most about your

Championship teams was not just I mean sometimes we overuse the word Aura but the confidence that you had i’ like every single day whether I was at practice or after a game I noticed you guys felt it was UN daunting you you there there’s no way that other team’s

Going to beat us every once in a while it’s going to happen you’re not going to go 82-0 in hockey you’re not going 17-0 in football unless you’re the Dolphins in 72 but my point is there is a there is a feeling that I think even permeates

Outside a locker room when you watch an elite team perform how do you notice any of that characteristic with the Lions today it’s moments it’s getting through different things ours was the like when you say that I ask you is that it was this uh pre March 26 97 or post I would

Say I would say even pre to be honeste because it was still learning to us March 2697 the the fight night at the Joe the lemie thing winning that game t-shirt and the whole Redwing like Wing wield Nation not just in the team but especially in the team it’s that it’s

Going to be all right that deep breath don’t know what it means it’s going to be all right that was like for us the galvanizing of we weren’t too European we weren’t too right like that was the one where we had each other’s backs and it was so you

Know what I’m saying that galvanizes your team too now in football it’s different ways I think the biggest galvanization is is set in history it like for bringing something that hasn’t been done in generations and and decades right so this team this line team like you said can separate themselves from

All the rest in the path by just winning this first game now it’s now it’s are but are you set up was it because to me winning that first playoff game and hosting it that wasn’t the Super Bowl to them obviously not to the fans but sometimes when you’re trying to

Overachieve you see that that teams get complacent we’re not complacent there’s a path here the Boer path so to speak but the fact is they know right now it’s legitimate right in front of them so you got to take this like for us back they know they’re really good we own the the

Chicago and the St louises and the Phoenix arizonas and so so even to that point Dallas and stuff like this right Colorado was the only one that we knew was going to be a heavyweight tilt back and forth but everybody else you had that confidence because you had that sort of History

So so to us it’s sort of like those moments but it’s learned and for us we learned by what losing you know you you me you you mentioned during the break you said do do athletes really like say baker Mayfield’s not going to cost you know me this and I’m like absolutely

Arthur Zer in ‘ 02 wasn’t and then you said well he did in 93 and I said yeah we were young and we weren’t going to let it happen again so he got us with San Jose and didn’t get us again but to that point yes yes yes and usually it’s

Cuz I’ll break it down and I don’t know in football if it goes like this but but I think because of matchups right I I’d be matched up and it’d usually be like the number three or four defenseman guy right that was my guy right it was it

Him or was it me right I was going to take his will out of this series hitting him every time I got in his face stuff like that now everybody else was going to get the equal opportunity but I had to focus on that guy so again game plan

Preparation you mentioned uh you know um questions in our coaching does anybody have questions in this coaching stuff and I see it in the chat thread too people I don’t care how many yards we give up you know we’re Ben but don’t break I don’t you know it does doesn’t

Matter who goes off that’s sort of the thing but when we need a stop what happens we hold them to three or we find a way to get a stop anybody talk about the biggest play right of the game was the hutch holding call yeah cuz it

Pulled him out of field goal range and then they were able to stop him yeah for sure on third down but but so what I what Spy what did I say the other day how many times did I say it big players make big plays and big

Moments who who made your biggest plays in big moments Hutch right then you had CJ Gardner Johnson a cam Sutton all over that ball which if you want to go e and flows and I know back getting upset about the off sides late in the first

Half that we got called a false start everybody but we don’t worry about the refs if you want to go did you see a little Jersey tug at the end it evened out yeah right and then who finishes it off Shep 4minute drill yeah right I know

In football cuz I hear that teams practice a 4-minute drill and a two-minute drill you saw us execute that 4-minute drill by our two who’d you put the balls in the hands of Jar go to alar ra St brown right yep those are statements those are give me the that’s

That’s federov give me that puck look I love that I I really do I would just say I think there’s a lot of people going why the hell are you throwing the football to Aman St Brown when you could basically run it take a knee and run it

Out and I think it’s basically Dan Campbell saying you know what screw this this is who we are I am not going to deter from what we are what we do when we do it and how we do it and that’s something that I love about him too it

Wasn’t long ago where we were getting complaints about Dan Campbell going for certain situations running fake punts and doing things that fans didn’t agree with because why because the Lions lost what we have to understand and what we have to agree to is that this is who

They are this is their identity this is what’s made them successful and at times it’s also a wart every team in every sport at every level goes through it absolutely and look at break down the game what was one of the biggest most crucial plays fourth down goal and you

Go trips right and who do you go to the guy we didn’t know we was going to play or not or whatever you know to to me that that’s huge too you see Sam La Porter and obviously being in there and stuff like that um

Didn’t tear the roof off you know had a touchdown catch at a couple possession but it’s blocking right where you see that it’s it’s so the fact is everybody’s doing what they need to do to get on the field they’re not going to be deterred by the way that they do it

Right Dan Campbell isn’t what spendy what do we sit here during the second half of the year and go wow the four downs aren’t executing like they were last year earlier in the season but it’s not going to change from the way that he coaches and at the it’s all about

Execution and what do we do when we needed it we execute it that’s what you got to continue to do yeah the the discussion about Golf and the discussion about this team and where it’s at okay well you know we’ve talked about the matchup in Tampa it’s a team that

Blitzes 40% of the time I believe among the most in all the NFL I don’t see that being an issue I mean this is where Jared goff’s experience and this is where uh his knowledge and his football IQ really come into because he and Frank rag now are calling everything at that

Line of scrimmage in an effort to protect him so we I’m I’m not worried about that at all I I do worry about turnovers I’m not afraid to say that I like when he was shoveling that one away the other day against the Rams it it it was concerning it’s so important to

Treasure the football it’s it’s really the same in every sport right you want to treasure the puck in hockey you want to treasure it in basketball I get all that um but I think if if you looked at the entire playoffs and this goes back to you know me saying look they’ve won

12 games we got to remember I I would I would venture to guess most people outside of Detroit are looking at going I would guess Baltimore San Francisco Detroit that’s how good this team is that’s how fortunate we are right now does that mean they’re going to win on

Sunday against Tampa no but it does tell you what people think of what your football team is capable of right now it’s impressive no it it really is and and how can you not be in those conversations as far as as I would think that you’re the odds on favor you you’re

The favorite at home right and and stuff like this but task at hand but the fact is they’re back to work I think that I think that you bring up that the fact that Frank ragnow and Jared gof and the fact that you know Todd BS you said his

Tampa Tampa team some of the best linebackers you know uh Winfield junor in the second Aries you know all pro and stuff like this they got players but the fact is is that you know we got both our running backs are physical and they can pick up blocks our tight ends are some

Of the best blockers in the league and stuff like that so and our wide receivers well oh yeah wide wi so so so to me this sets up like look at early in that game right early in this this game who was the key early in the game

Setting it up Josh Reynolds yeah right Josh Reynolds was and then they worked onar ra like Amar ra just just so quietly getss 80 100 yards I know right you know what I’m saying that’s not going to change right cuz that’s what they’re saying Tampa right now they’re

Going to put the linebacker on them and what did you say earlier you said look Mike Evans is going to get his right people in Tampa right now what are they saying like I’m not saying Brown’s probably going to get his okay they’ve got that double-headed monster as a as a

Running back in Montgomery and Gibbs there is one guy who Des deserves a lot of credit and I don’t know if he’s getting enough of it we’ll get into that when we come Back