Rich Eisen Weighs In on the Detroit Lions’ Statement Win over the Ravens on Monday Night Football

spending the first month of our relationship with Disney Plus and ESPN radio um and the ESPN app and just assuming that there’s some new folks out there who haven’t been with us over the last 10 plus years. So, just to catch up to speed, um I I am not concerned at all about being wrong about things. I I’m I will always raise my hand and say, you know, Ameulpa or admit that what I’m saying isn’t yet right about that. That’s the case. In that case, for all of you out there, uh new to us, certainly in the last couple weeks, see Browning, Jake, okay, where I’m like, hey, Bengals are the season’s not over. Don’t worry about this guy’s going to be fine. Um and then dreadful. It was positively awful. And there may be some out there certainly in Bristol um you know who utilize that take in many ways uh to create conversations on their programs um again something we we’re not used to around these these parts um uh that that I might invariably be wrong. We’re we’re marathoning. We’re not sprinting. Um and in that case I I always like proving out that uh something is proving out for me. And after week one, my take that the Detroit Lions were going to win the NFC um didn’t look good. Didn’t look good. And it didn’t look good when Green Bay also looked the way they looked on the following Thursday, 5 days later before the Lions took the field again and looked as great as they looked against the Washington Commanders, a team that bounced them in last year’s playoffs. And uh you know, so but we’re marathoning. We’re not sprinting. Yeah, long season. And uh look who showed up and hit the Baltimore Ravens repeatedly in the mouth and the head, neck, and chest area and just body blowed and haymakered their way to a convincing W last night in Balmer against a Ravens team that after almost beating the Bills and having a shocking loss handed to them by the Buffalo Bills in the opening Sunday night of the season in Still to date in the clubhouse leader best game of the year 4140 Bills over Ravens Sunday nighter they started slow against the Browns and then looked as great as they looked in the second half and now we’re page turning and now the Ravens are going to show up and look like they did last year and look who looks like they did last year instead. That would be the Detroit Lions who if it’s all going well for them will run it down your throat, control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the football and have Jared Goff be efficient, not turn it over, make some plays with his arm, with his neck up ability, get it to Aman Ra, get it to Jameson Williams, get it to Leaporta, get it to either one of his backs as well. And if those are all boxes to be checked last night, check them all. Check them all with such a force that the pen rips through the paper. That’s why I liked the Lions coming in. That’s the Lions that we’re used to seeing with Dan Campbell being the head coach there. I guess since that season opening win in Kansas City ruining their banner raising night and shocking the world. It’s been that way since that day. Chalk full of fourth quarter decisions that make you scratch your head and in one case helped end a season in San Francisco in the NFC Championship game. Last year was a complete disappointment after a 15- win season, but they didn’t have the guy on the screen and a whole bunch of other people either. And the guy on the screen, ESPN radio and SiriusX7 podcast listening audience is named Aiden Hutchinson. And if anybody knows about Aiden Hutchinson and what he can do and become a game wrecker and how he is a gamewrecker and became one, it’s the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens whose brother helped birth this man in that such a way. Mhm. By the way, let me just say this too, just as a quick aside. You think Jacksonville wants to redo that deal for the first overall pick of that draft? With all due respect to Mr. Walker. I should have said all but do it with all due respect in advance. But at any rate, Aiden Hutchinson’s healthy. That defense came up with seven sacks of Lamar Jackson last night. Seven sacks of Lamar Jackson. And on the other side of the line of scrimmage, if you will, 224 yards rushing. Sonic and Knuckles scored twice. Both of them, by the way. So I guess they scored four times. Jir Gibbs twice. David Montgomery twice. They have now scored in the same game 11 times. That is the most in the history of the National Football League. They broke a record last night. They were tied with Paul Horning and Jim Taylor for one set of teammates and Hugh Molaney and Joe Perry for another set of teammates. They’re all in Canton, Ohio. And Jared Goff, man, now has 12 straight games with at least 200 passing yards. That’s double the number of the next quarterback. And that’s Justin Herbert, who Chris, I think you made a solid case. And I know I don’t a good case, an excellent case. Thank you. Is uh your MVP quarterback through three weeks was a pole position guy. And if you’re talking about a pole position guy through three weeks, I will give you one. Coach of the year, Dan Campbell, put a pin in that. I’ll get to that in a second. But for the Lions going on the road on a Monday night to follow up the 50 burger they handed to Chicago with this performance a 38-30 win where a late touchdown to put a little bit of a scare needing to get one through one last onside kick to win the game for the Lions. It wasn’t even that close towards the end of the game because they came up with a big takeaway as well of Derek Henry who’s now fumbled in each of his first three games this year. Yikes. And came came out of his hands again in the fourth quarter like it did in week one in Buffalo to help the Bills get off the mat. And this time around it was the Lions in the fourth quarter. And the guy who came from the back end of the play to knock it loose is named Aiden Hutchinson. So when you come up with those performances and you’re you’re all over Lamar Jackson, you keep Zay Flowers basically off the board. You pop one free from Derek Henry. You then also run for 224 yards. You get Jared Goff winging it around and not one but two 96 plus yard drives. A 98 yder in the first half that had a wait for it 10 minute plus time of possession. 10 minutes and 48 seconds, 18 plays, eight first downs. longest drive for the Lions in terms of time possessed since at least 1994. And again, when you get a statistic from anybody who’s in charge of stats that says at least, they’re like, we’re we’re not we’re not going back any further. It’s the longest drive for the Lions in the Dan Campbell error. And he did it in the same game. As a matter of fact, the last team to come up with two drives in the same game of that length was the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2014. It’s been 11 years since we’ve seen a drive like that in the NFL. And the Lions do it in Baltimore on a Monday night. That’s what you call a Dan Campbell signature Detroit Lions W. It’s them going into Baltimore and saying what up though in their own way. And Dan Campbell was asked that in a very interesting manner in the postgame press conference with a reporter sort of mixing metaphors or sports by dropping a Tom Emansky reference. Hit it. You said that you he wanted your guys to to win different ways, but like the old Tomansky baseball tapes. I guess if there’s a Dan Campbell, how to coach, how to win a football game. Is that right there? The the MO is that the DVD? Yeah, I know. I don’t know, man. I um I guess it would be pretty close to that. But but it was also this is the type of game this is the type of game that was needed for this opponent. Not everyone is going to always be the same. you’d love to say, you know, it’s always going to uh it’s going to be that type and you got to play this way, but all of them are different. And uh you know, some some games it takes more explosives. You know, you got to get more explosives than it does just true groundwork. You know, the ground sets it up and defensively you got to play a little different, but it was for it was what was needed against this team for this opponent and I thought the guys handled it perfectly. Yeah. and he’s handled it perfectly as well. If you made a list of teams through the first three weeks that look like the team from last year, right? And in a positive way, okay, you’d go Bills, right? You’d go Eagles, right? You’d go Bucks in a way because they’re they’re playing winning football. They might be playing better than they did last year, actually. Rams. I think you you you’d say the Rams kind of look like the way they did last year and and you’re not gonna have a recency bias knock you off of that. Um then you go Lions, you go Packers, too. The Packers look good. The Chargers were a playoff team. The Chargers are better. They look better, but I’m That’s where I’m going. That Okay, you’re going that where they look like the team that did well last year. You go Lions now. And you wouldn’t have said that after week one. And you’ve that’s where I’m now returning to Dan Campbell as a coach of the year type candidate, right? And because this team, we thought last week against the Bears, at least I did, that the head coach and the Lions were making a point against Ben Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. We don’t need you around here anymore. It’s not You’re not the secret sauce. The secret sauce is our locker room and the guys on the roster and we’re going to beat you up. We’re gonna put a 50 burger on you. Hey, you made it all the way to the end. Thanks for that. Check us out every single day streaming live on Disney Plus and the ESPN app 12 to 3 Eastern.

Rich Eisen breaks down the Detroit Lions’ 38-30 win over the Baltimore Ravens on Monday Night Football to wrap up NFL Week 3.

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26 comments

  1. Sadly the McVay narrative on Goff keeps getting more and more sad. I know he was just trying to deflect the over use of Gourley and loss to the Pats was Goff’s fault, cream rises to the top lil fella

  4. As far as the ravens go, this is the third time in the last four games that they have played badly in the fourth quarter. It’s becoming a theme. And you can’t blame Lamar Jackson. He’s been playing great. And I’ve never been his biggest fan. But the combination of Derrick Henry’s fumbles and they’re lousy defense, which is unbelievable for the Baltimore Ravens is going to make things mighty tough for them the rest of the way.

  6. Goff has awareness and a cool headed ness not often seen in the game. Lots of guys run or dont wait for a play too develop. Goff has the awareness and his teammates believe in him. The Ravens were a piece or 2 short for this game but they were still a Top 4 club coming into this. This Win was a Big Deal going forward for the Steam Rolling Detroit Football Lions!

  10. 7 sacks, and in Moneyball fashion, "If he's so mobile, what wasn't he mobile" If he can "make plays with his feet" why didn't he make plays with his feet (running forward not backwards)?

  13. not a fan of teams giving up with time still on the clock….. like no one knows what 28-3 is… so im glad the ravens lost… thats what you get for quitting(clock management). not a fan of either team btw…i just hate quitters in a 'payed" competitive sports environment. it ain't over until its over… lions played a more disciplined and mistake free game for one score longer then the ravens could handle.

  14. What a game!!! The Lions were firing on all cylinders. WOW! Most of my life, the Lions were the worst team in the league…no longer…now we are one of the best. SO FUN!

  17. Has anybody considered that Dan Campbell maybe didn't want Ben Johnson back this year? I think he might have told Ben go out there and find a new job. I got some new coaches I want to bring in

  18. I was worried when we let them score before the half after a goal line stand but we came out strong in the 2nd half. Our offense wears down defenses and our defense is greatly improved but we still need some more one on one stops on those downfield passes.

  24. I thought that first 90+ yard drive really sent a message about how physical this game was going to be. All I kept thinking was that they are gonna out physical the RAVENS. Huge win for them. The season may not go perfectly for them but this win can give them supreme confidence in their team.

  26. The thing for Detroit is that these earlier games for many players on the team this is like their preseason. The Lions didn't play them during the preseason. And on both sides of the ball, their offensive and defensive lines, are forming into a cohesive team. And with the new coordinators the Lions are learning how to use their offense as the main aspect of their weekly defensive scheme. And to run out the clock by sustaining long offensive drives. And when the run game stalls open it up with their passing game. And when the passing game is running on eight cylinders pivot back to the run game.

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