Rich Eisen on What’s at Stake for the Detroit Lions in Week 2 vs the Bears | The Rich Eisen Show

Rich Eisen on What’s at Stake for the Detroit Lions in Week 2 vs the Bears | The Rich Eisen Show

This whole thing with the Lions missing their coordinators. I bet you Dan Campbell is sick and tired of that already. Week one games either salt a narrative or erase them when you’ve got six, seven months to talk about it in our world and players hear it. I mean, Joe Burrow before the season was asked about having to start fast and prove something to just something to prove. And he basically said, “Aren’t, you know, the narrative has shifted around our team.” He says that so players know about narratives, they hear about narratives, and they’re either bothered by them or can erase them. And then when they don’t erase them, they get bothered by it further and hear about it more. And that’s why winning week one is is big, right? Then we have somebody who said yesterday, I think the Jets loss can actually help them show what they have to improve. A lot of teams have got to improve on on a week one performance, but they’re one and0. You’d rather be that way. But I bring this all up to say of all the weeks for Ben Johnson to stroll into Detroit, right? Coming off of that week one performance in Green Bay that salted the narrative. Didn’t erase it. They could have come in if they had come up with another win in Lambo would have given him four in a row of those. I think first time ever or or first time since you know the New Deal or whatever and then it would be see we don’t miss Bendy. Here comes Ben. Let’s show him what uh what he left. Now it’s like, oh, we missed Ben, miss Aaron Glenn because look what we just did in Lambeau Field and now of all the weeks for Ben Johnson to stroll it. Here he comes and Dan Campbell had his second press conference of the week. He was asked about this, correct, Mike? Is that what I’m throwing to right here? Listen about losing week one and all the noise surrounding it. After week one, after a new off seasonason, I’m not sure if you’re familiar with all the opinions out there, but they are loud as they seemingly always are. How much will that fuel your tank? How much will that fuel your message, if at all this week? You know what fuels my tank is losing. All right. That that fuels me because I I don’t like losing. Our players don’t like it. And you go back to work, man. And you get back to the basics of what you do, man. And you hit it head on. There’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. We’re all accountable. And if we want to win, we got to do the little things right and prepare that way. Um, and then we got to play that way. So, um, that that’s what gets me going. And it’s a great answer, you know, let’s give the family feud to him, you know, good answer because, you know, the this narrative can be very corrosive cuz even if you cuz again, he’s in the film room motivated by the losing. So are the players. They’re on the practice field starting at this point in the week feeling good about themselves. We just had a great practice. Great practice. We’re feeling good about ourselves. This is it. We’re turning the corner. We’re turning the page. And then you hear the questions about, “Hey man, the guy who you missed the most is coming into town with the Bears.” Or, “Hey man, the guy you missed the most just cuts some player. I mean, the accountability of Aaron Glenn, I mean, you you know, miss that.” And then maybe it creeps in like that good practice doesn’t matter. So, we don’t have the guys. That’s what they think. I’ll show them they’re wrong. They got to do that in week two. And I’m telling you, they got to be sick and tired of this narrative already just one one week in, you know, and I I understand shows like this one, you know, my position as well that we we think narratives matter. Maybe they don’t, maybe they do. Maybe not to those guys, but I don’t know. But but doubts can creep and that’s why the coach is just like you know what matters lo you know what motivates me you know what really gets me going not the narrative just losing in general doesn’t matter who we lose to just losing in general it’s not what we do around here it’s not what we’ve done around here and we’re going to talk about this next week but if you’re an 0 and one being 0 and2 it’s you know less than 10% chance to make the playoffs so certainly if you’re in a division where where you’re going to start picking it everyone’s going to pick each each other off, right? Like that. And then you play the AFC North, too. Being 0 and2 is a huge deal. Well, I mean, you got to win division games at home. That simple. Lions know it. Bears know it. Bears didn’t do it. They’d love to stick it to the Lions and say, “You’ve now have a division loss.” And as a matter of fact, you just have a division loss. We can create a situation where the narrative that you’re already hearing gets worse because guess who beat you? Your old guy. Kids. all right in Chicago. He was the one who turned the page from week one. You didn’t. You’re now 0 and one at at home in division just like us. But we’re one and one in division. You’re 0 and2 in division. And you lost one on the road where you you don’t like to lose and you lost at home. And guess what? Now you’re going to Baltimore on a Monday night at 0 and2. Okay. It’s a big game. It’s a big one for narratives and for standings and for reality. It’s a big game because after a home date with Cleveland comes a two-game roadie at Cincinnati and then at Kansas City and then you’re home for Tampa on a Monday night and Tampa could have passed you in that HOV diamond lane of the NFC already at that point in time. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. 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Rich Eisen says what’s at stake for the Detroit Lions in Week 2 after falling flat in their season opener against the Green Bay Packers.

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