The Thursday after Thanksgiving is usually 2 teams that played on Thanksgiving. That way the game is like a regular game with each team having a full week off.
Love the Detroit Lions! A win is a win! Rough game! Hopefully, the Detroit Lions didn't have any serious injuries! 🙏🙏🙏Detroit Lions! One Pride! Nothing but love, peace, and happiness!
As a newish nfl fan your insight and commentary is always appreciated for making sense of messy games when I don't quite know who to blame and who to give credit lol.
Detroit is built different it has been proven they win games where they go through everything. Injuries and mistakes. They just win. Imagine if we had all our players man what could be
Imagine if we had even a THIRD of our injured players back. 😂 I have never in my life seen such a deep reach into the backup pool. My god. We entered the game with 80% 4th-5th string guys on defense and we lost 3 more during the game.
Yeah! How many times did I catch Za’Darius Smith with a bear arm around his neck? I was paying even more attention than usual because I was narrating the game to my mildly-football-curious daughter.
I won't defend too much but my thought process was this. They're almost out of field goal range after the sack, Caleb had plenty of time to throw the ball short, spike it and probably another play with a timeout to get them closer. However if you're going to go out on a touchdown and win like Caleb was clearly doing then he needs to 100% be talked to about managing the offense because not a single other player seemed to give a single shit about getting to the line in a hurry. He also took ages to call a play, change the play and threw a terrible pass at that. Rookies are going to rookie, if you're confident you go with him, that's why I dont think Eberflus called the timeout cause if he didn't trust him he would have called it and kicked the field goal easily.
Definitely not an easy field goal. It was fuckin 3rd down. They could have spiked the ball and set up that hail Mary or simply called the fucking timeout. Don't make excuses for bad clock management.
Doesn’t work. Thursday teams get the next Sunday off as well so that means one game played in 21 days. 7 days for bye week + 4 more until Thursday and then 10 days to next game.
Just a quick clarifying question if you don't mind, Coach. Do you object to the Thanksgiving games, in addition to all the other TNF games? I really like the Thanksgiving games, most likely because I'm a Lions fan, but I absolutely agree that the only other time there should be a Thursday night game is week 1, when it kicks off the season.
One more thought on the Thanksgiving games: I think if the only Thursday games are Week 1 and Thanksgiving, it should be relatively easy to have the six teams playing on Thanksgiving to be on their bye the week before. That should help alleviate the potential issues the short turnaround time going into the Thanksgiving games. If you disagree with the Thanksgiving games, I definitely hear where you're coming from, but respectfully disagree. I do agree with all the other TNF games being terrible, and that should be done away with, as it makes it glaringly obvious that player safety doesn't outweigh additional revenue streams, which is a nice way of saying pure greed.
Instant replay always there to take plays and points from the Lions but he must've been on his phone for the rest of the game. Ignoring many missed calls and not overturning the fake PI call that helped the Bears stay alive. Heck, the first Bears TD was on a blatantly ignored delay of game. 2nd Bears TD was on an even more blatantly ignored holding no call in front of the ref watching the QB and directly in thw center of the screen. Thrid Bears TD was a gift by the refs on the fake PI call after the Bears were not called for false start on that PI play. None of that excuses the Lions terrible play calling and ignoring Gibbs.
Let’s be clear . The game changed on the Gibbs Fumble. The score is about to be 19-0 or 23-0 at halftime. Props to the bears for the comeback. Thanks for the poor clock management. NFL are hypocrites with Thursday games and talking about injuries.
NFL has had Thanksgiving Day football on a Thursday since 1934.....maybe we can make this argument for the Christmas games which is Saturday/Wednesday combination
There defense against our running game in the 2nd quarter was gassed. If we continued to run especially with Gibbs,... we could have blown this game wide open. I think Ben was worried about satisfying pass game stats in the game he plays in his head. Our run game was blowing them off the ball. Losing our linemen 2nd half opened the door, the rest of the way
Exactly, that was a perfect opportunity to kill the clock with the running game. I think Johnson is trying, to a fault at times, to step on teams necks and it almost bit them yesterday.
Am I the only one who thought I saw at least two separate instances of the Bears somehow avoiding delay of game penalties after snapping the ball after the clock was clearly at or past zero?
@@all_22_films I just thought maybe I was crazy since the broadcasters made no mention of it after it happened. So I honestly thought I had gone insane and needed anither human being to verify it one way or another haha
Lions just didn't have the bodies to put out there 2nd half. Josh Paschal and Levi Onwuzurike are huge losses. Rodrigo left with a knee injury. Wingo got dinged up. Ben Johnson trying to get too cute again up near you red zone, far enough out that the play won't work. I think CD3 means a lot to this secondary. Missed calls on both sides
It was incredibly frustrating to see the Lions abandon their very effective run game in the 2nd quarter when the Lions offense were deep in Bears territory twice. I kept yelling “run the fucking ball, Ben”. The most pathetic sequence was that three straight pass attempts at 1st & goal. This was after Lions run game was unstoppable up to that point.
It would be great if the NFL would schedule bye weeks ahead of Thursday night games. It would certainly help mitigate the destruction that these games inflict. Seems like a nominal amount of planning to alleviate an obvious problem.
That missed field goal and the fumble by Gibbs was brutal and it made this game look a lot closer than what it should have been. Gibbs is running full steam ahead and then fumbled on like the 3 yd line. If Gibbs were held on it would have been first and goal at the 3-yard line which was probably guaranteed a touchdown right there. So I believe the score is a little deceiving but we can't say should have could have would have cuz that's football fumbles happen interceptions and quarterback sacks happen in Miss field goals happen and that's just part of the game
Super weird game. Bates missed an easy FG, Gibbs extremely rare lost fumble in the REDZONE, backups for the backups bc defense got murdered by injuries, Lions allowed a rare comeback instead of converting in the redzone like they’re known to do, KJ + BB missing interceptions… strange
@@nahbruhnopehe’s new! He was signed to the practice squad from Arizona 3 weeks ago. There’s an interview somewhere where Coach Fipp talks about being in conversation with Arizona coaches about Turner and wanted him for special teams after JRM was injured. I kept wracking my brain trying to remember who’s “47”? He played special teams week 11, couple snaps week 12, and today.
This game really frustrated me. They were making little mistakes that kept the bears in it. But we won and hopefully can get a little healthier for the playoffs
I think Caleb should have just got his guys set, and do a quarterback sneak They would have gotten at least four or five yards. 7 seconds was all he needed, Call time out, and kick the damn ball. Of course this would have been in lue of trying to call a play as well as an freaking audible. (Good Lord what was that kid thinking, didn't USC teach him anything?). Every quarterback in the world knows how to do this, you would have thought that somebody trained him at some point in his life. Like pee wee football, high school or college, he must have learned something... I know it sounds terrible but I think the guy is a little bit dense, and not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I think his head coach was so freaked out just watching him doing nothing, I think he went into a mini coma and just couldn't utter anything, like time out! But all is good, Lions win again, Yaaà baby!
Would the NFL ever consider moving TNF to Friday or Saturday? Adding an extra day or two of rest seems like an easy enough solution to help player safety and cut down on bad football.
Stevenson didn’t just talk to Jamo, he tripped him on the sidelines. I’m not saying the reaction is okay, but he was getting harassed, hit, and held the whole game. I think being tripped was his last straw. Again, not okay, but definitely not out of nowhere.
One thing I noticed about the Detroit Lions offense is when they get on the goal line and it's like second and goal on the 2-yard line they try to get too cute. Instead of just running the ball straight forward on second down 3rd down and even 4th Down, they want to try to be cute and do these play action passes over to the tight end. I believe they left a lot of points on the board because they need to just simplify things when they get over onto the red zone. I saw a few times where they ran the ball extremely well all the way up the field and then once they get on like the Bears 40 or 30 yard line they just threw it three times in a row and then had to kick it SMH
I'm currently watching the Packers manhandle the Dolphins on Thanksgiving evening. Lions are going to struggle on Thursday against the Packers unless they get some players back and clean things up.
@NoHesiReacts wtf are you talking about. If you think Robertson was the one getting toasted get your eyes checked out. He only gave up a td to allen. It's arnold and vildor bud
Definitely don't see how the Lions are 'the best team in football'...the Bears basically lost due to horrible clock management. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but they could have tied the game if not for horrible clock management.
Lions are best team in football by record and point differential. It's really pretty easy to prove. The Bears and division opponents always play each other tough. Are you new?
That missed field goal and the fumble by Gibbs was brutal and it made this game look a lot closer than what it should have been. Gibbs is running full steam ahead and then fumbled on like the 3 yd line. If Gibbs were held on it would have been first and goal at the 3-yard line which was probably guaranteed a touchdown right there. So I believe the score is a little deceiving but we can't say should have could have would have cuz that's football fumbles happen interceptions and quarterback sacks happen in Miss field goals happen and that's just part of the game
Thanks for putting an episode out on holiday!
A win is a win
@@El_Guapo98 FACTSSSS!!!!!!! 😎😎😎😎😎
Chiefs fans will tell you that all day long. No matter how many times they have squeak out the win.
Also having 2 Thursday night games back to back is insane
The Thursday after Thanksgiving is usually 2 teams that played on Thanksgiving. That way the game is like a regular game with each team having a full week off.
@@paulmayer8654considering we did just play 3-4 days ago u would expect a couple more days off
@@Lifeofkei2xs they’ll get the extra days before Buffalo
Love the Detroit Lions! A win is a win! Rough game! Hopefully, the Detroit Lions didn't have any serious injuries! 🙏🙏🙏Detroit Lions! One Pride! Nothing but love, peace, and happiness!
As a newish nfl fan your insight and commentary is always appreciated for making sense of messy games when I don't quite know who to blame and who to give credit lol.
Detroit is built different it has been proven they win games where they go through everything. Injuries and mistakes. They just win. Imagine if we had all our players man what could be
Imagine if we had even a THIRD of our injured players back. 😂 I have never in my life seen such a deep reach into the backup pool. My god. We entered the game with 80% 4th-5th string guys on defense and we lost 3 more during the game.
Excellent critique today, especially the section regarding the offensive play calls on the 3rd and 4th possessions!
They missed a false start on the Vildor penalty also. Linemen clearly moved early.
@@wolves1901 no mention of that offsides either. Frustrating
Well done Coach Derek super work as always thank you!
Bears played in OT and then early Thursday. Back to back Thursday games are crazy as well.
They didn't call holding on the OL the whole game.. Same thing with that Indianapolis Colts who was eye poking the defensive linemen smh..
Yeah! How many times did I catch Za’Darius Smith with a bear arm around his neck? I was paying even more attention than usual because I was narrating the game to my mildly-football-curious daughter.
Kirby Joseph uncharacteristically missed the interception when a ball was tipped and Joseph dough for and it was in his hands and it just came out
That's right, good call
Brother everyone was dropping easy interceptions. Arnold, dorsey, joesph. It was like the first game of the year against the rams..
He almost had one in the beginning of the game too, but he was a little too focused on tracking the ball and ran into DJ.
Happy thanksgiving to u and family and thanks for all the video breakdowns
Thanks for putting this video out. Looking forward to some film from this game soon. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving
I lost several years of my life from this game
You are so right! And the Lions have to face GB next Thursday!
I won't defend too much but my thought process was this. They're almost out of field goal range after the sack, Caleb had plenty of time to throw the ball short, spike it and probably another play with a timeout to get them closer. However if you're going to go out on a touchdown and win like Caleb was clearly doing then he needs to 100% be talked to about managing the offense because not a single other player seemed to give a single shit about getting to the line in a hurry. He also took ages to call a play, change the play and threw a terrible pass at that. Rookies are going to rookie, if you're confident you go with him, that's why I dont think Eberflus called the timeout cause if he didn't trust him he would have called it and kicked the field goal easily.
Definitely not an easy field goal. It was fuckin 3rd down. They could have spiked the ball and set up that hail Mary or simply called the fucking timeout. Don't make excuses for bad clock management.
They can fix the schedule so that each team gets a bye the week before they play a Thursday game
Doesn’t work. Thursday teams get the next Sunday off as well so that means one game played in 21 days. 7 days for bye week + 4 more until Thursday and then 10 days to next game.
Just a quick clarifying question if you don't mind, Coach. Do you object to the Thanksgiving games, in addition to all the other TNF games? I really like the Thanksgiving games, most likely because I'm a Lions fan, but I absolutely agree that the only other time there should be a Thursday night game is week 1, when it kicks off the season.
One more thought on the Thanksgiving games: I think if the only Thursday games are Week 1 and Thanksgiving, it should be relatively easy to have the six teams playing on Thanksgiving to be on their bye the week before. That should help alleviate the potential issues the short turnaround time going into the Thanksgiving games. If you disagree with the Thanksgiving games, I definitely hear where you're coming from, but respectfully disagree. I do agree with all the other TNF games being terrible, and that should be done away with, as it makes it glaringly obvious that player safety doesn't outweigh additional revenue streams, which is a nice way of saying pure greed.
Instant replay always there to take plays and points from the Lions but he must've been on his phone for the rest of the game. Ignoring many missed calls and not overturning the fake PI call that helped the Bears stay alive.
Heck, the first Bears TD was on a blatantly ignored delay of game. 2nd Bears TD was on an even more blatantly ignored holding no call in front of the ref watching the QB and directly in thw center of the screen. Thrid Bears TD was a gift by the refs on the fake PI call after the Bears were not called for false start on that PI play.
None of that excuses the Lions terrible play calling and ignoring Gibbs.
That PI call at the end was INSANE.
Let’s be clear . The game changed on the Gibbs Fumble. The score is about to be 19-0 or 23-0 at halftime. Props to the bears for the comeback. Thanks for the poor clock management.
NFL are hypocrites with Thursday games and talking about injuries.
Big props coach. Squeeker but we pulled er out.
NFL has had Thanksgiving Day football on a Thursday since 1934.....maybe we can make this argument for the Christmas games which is Saturday/Wednesday combination
There defense against our running game in the 2nd quarter was gassed. If we continued to run especially with Gibbs,... we could have blown this game wide open. I think Ben was worried about satisfying pass game stats in the game he plays in his head. Our run game was blowing them off the ball. Losing our linemen 2nd half opened the door, the rest of the way
100%. Agree. Missed opportunity there by Ben Johnson to shorten the game and help out a depleted Lions Defense.
Exactly, that was a perfect opportunity to kill the clock with the running game. I think Johnson is trying, to a fault at times, to step on teams necks and it almost bit them yesterday.
Thought the penalties hurt more
Am I the only one who thought I saw at least two separate instances of the Bears somehow avoiding delay of game penalties after snapping the ball after the clock was clearly at or past zero?
Correct. Noticed that also.
@@benbird2100 horrendous officiating. That PI call on fourth down was so incredibly bad. We lose this game in the past.
@@all_22_films I just thought maybe I was crazy since the broadcasters made no mention of it after it happened. So I honestly thought I had gone insane and needed anither human being to verify it one way or another haha
Lions just didn't have the bodies to put out there 2nd half.
Josh Paschal and Levi Onwuzurike are huge losses. Rodrigo left with a knee injury. Wingo got dinged up.
Ben Johnson trying to get too cute again up near you red zone, far enough out that the play won't work. I think CD3 means a lot to this secondary. Missed calls on both sides
Agree. Running out of available players on Defense but still competing.
I can't blame gibs the guy targeted with his helmet on the ball. I don't know anyone that could hang on to the ball like that.
I said it looked like that bears db was channeling Brian branch - such a hard hit out of nowhere - like he was shot from a cannon.
I agree perfect hit on the ball it went flying
You are right about Goff. We noticed it as well. He threw three in the dirt for no apparent reason.
Killed the play over coverage. It's what good QBs do instead of trying to force passes into coverage and risk the int.
Even the Monday night game is tough to recover from.
It was incredibly frustrating to see the Lions abandon their very effective run game in the 2nd quarter when the Lions offense were deep in Bears territory twice. I kept yelling “run the fucking ball, Ben”.
The most pathetic sequence was that three straight pass attempts at 1st & goal. This was after Lions run game was unstoppable up to that point.
But they quick to make Ben a coach to a NFL team.. 😂 NOT!!!
@ these coaches try too hard to overthink everyone else.
It would be great if the NFL would schedule bye weeks ahead of Thursday night games. It would certainly help mitigate the destruction that these games inflict. Seems like a nominal amount of planning to alleviate an obvious problem.
Nice recap Coach!
That missed field goal and the fumble by Gibbs was brutal and it made this game look a lot closer than what it should have been. Gibbs is running full steam ahead and then fumbled on like the 3 yd line. If Gibbs were held on it would have been first and goal at the 3-yard line which was probably guaranteed a touchdown right there. So I believe the score is a little deceiving but we can't say should have could have would have cuz that's football fumbles happen interceptions and quarterback sacks happen in Miss field goals happen and that's just part of the game
Except he did fumble and the score was exactly what it was
It's tough to play four days later give the lions credit to get a w it's tough to do
Super weird game. Bates missed an easy FG, Gibbs extremely rare lost fumble in the REDZONE, backups for the backups bc defense got murdered by injuries, Lions allowed a rare comeback instead of converting in the redzone like they’re known to do, KJ + BB missing interceptions… strange
A gritty win. That call on Vildor on the 4 and 14 was BS,I think you have a point the Thursday nights games js got to be hard on the body.
Wild how many injuries we have on defense
3 missed holding calls, 3 delay of games, not called. Since 1965, GOLIONS.
It’s the TV executives that are pushing for Thursday because of the money they make. I wish they would just end Thursday football for good.
Always nice to pull out a win with essentially 7 backups on defense.
Brother, those were backups to the backups’, backups’. 😂
True. I have seen every snap the Lions have played this year and I didn't know we had a guy named Turner.
@@nahbruhnopehe’s new! He was signed to the practice squad from Arizona 3 weeks ago. There’s an interview somewhere where Coach Fipp talks about being in conversation with Arizona coaches about Turner and wanted him for special teams after JRM was injured.
I kept wracking my brain trying to remember who’s “47”? He played special teams week 11, couple snaps week 12, and today.
I luv facts
This game really frustrated me. They were making little mistakes that kept the bears in it. But we won and hopefully can get a little healthier for the playoffs
Gibbs had 9 carrys for 87. In the 1st half Gibbs had 7 for 83. 2nd half Gibbs was 2 carry for 4 yards.
Monty had 21 for 88.
you can play with backups and win for only so long.
I think Caleb should have just got his guys set, and do a quarterback sneak They would have gotten at least four or five yards. 7 seconds was all he needed, Call time out, and kick the damn ball. Of course this would have been in lue of trying to call a play as well as an freaking audible. (Good Lord what was that kid thinking, didn't USC teach him anything?). Every quarterback in the world knows how to do this, you would have thought that somebody trained him at some point in his life.
Like pee wee football, high school or college, he must have learned something... I know it sounds terrible but I think the guy is a little bit dense, and not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I think his head coach was so freaked out just watching him doing nothing, I think he went into a mini coma and just couldn't utter anything, like time out! But all is good, Lions win again, Yaaà baby!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Would the NFL ever consider moving TNF to Friday or Saturday? Adding an extra day or two of rest seems like an easy enough solution to help player safety and cut down on bad football.
Is there any statistics that show players are more likely to be injured on Thursday football?
Stevenson didn’t just talk to Jamo, he tripped him on the sidelines. I’m not saying the reaction is okay, but he was getting harassed, hit, and held the whole game. I think being tripped was his last straw. Again, not okay, but definitely not out of nowhere.
Ben Johnson has been abysmal vs Chicago going back to last year it’s been ridiculous
Plus a healthy Houston, cut didn't make sense...
Houston is now a Brown
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Lions are runnng out of guys.
One thing I noticed about the Detroit Lions offense is when they get on the goal line and it's like second and goal on the 2-yard line they try to get too cute. Instead of just running the ball straight forward on second down 3rd down and even 4th Down, they want to try to be cute and do these play action passes over to the tight end. I believe they left a lot of points on the board because they need to just simplify things when they get over onto the red zone. I saw a few times where they ran the ball extremely well all the way up the field and then once they get on like the Bears 40 or 30 yard line they just threw it three times in a row and then had to kick it SMH
Ummm they usually score TDs in these situations. It was 1 game dude.
They only time the didnt score inside the 10 was because of a penalty
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@@gabriellongworth we won
@ injuries. Pure hypocrisy, like coach said
Dummy
I don't blame the Thursday but they get the 4 days is won't
Huh
Yea Thursday football is terrible for player health.
Timely penalties, missed field goal, and fumble. Should’ve been a blowout too many mistakes
I'm currently watching the Packers manhandle the Dolphins on Thanksgiving evening. Lions are going to struggle on Thursday against the Packers unless they get some players back and clean things up.
Yeah we couldn’t stop a simple drag route today , tough day for Robertson he was getting whooped on those all game 😭🤦🏻♂️
@NoHesiReacts wtf are you talking about. If you think Robertson was the one getting toasted get your eyes checked out. He only gave up a td to allen. It's arnold and vildor bud
The Thursday game are dumb, so is Monday! All about Money!
Definitely don't see how the Lions are 'the best team in football'...the Bears basically lost due to horrible clock management. Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but they could have tied the game if not for horrible clock management.
Lions are best team in football by record and point differential. It's really pretty easy to prove. The Bears and division opponents always play each other tough. Are you new?
You really aren’t wrong the play callikg from Ben Johnson has been really annoying at times, he is good but not great
Ben Johnson has a bad habit of abandoning the run when it’s working. You run it more that last possession never happens.
That missed field goal and the fumble by Gibbs was brutal and it made this game look a lot closer than what it should have been. Gibbs is running full steam ahead and then fumbled on like the 3 yd line. If Gibbs were held on it would have been first and goal at the 3-yard line which was probably guaranteed a touchdown right there. So I believe the score is a little deceiving but we can't say should have could have would have cuz that's football fumbles happen interceptions and quarterback sacks happen in Miss field goals happen and that's just part of the game