Thoughts on Lions and next week

[HoosierinFL]

No long list of key points or stupid grades but:

I think its telling that the offense looks so much better when we use the weapons that have been making plays all year (and some last year). That is, instead of forcing it to TY Doyle and Burton and Taylor, we use the creative personnel matchups that come with spreading it around to MAC, Pascal, Hines and Wilkens. Those latter 4 just continually make plays when we ask them to and then the offense puts up 34 points. (really 35 but for missed PATs) And look at the turnaround in red zone offense as a result!! No FG tries, that's 5 TDs! (plus a defensive score)

And speaking of defense, it still blows my mind that we have a top 3 defense in the NFL, one that has a legit shot at being #1 when all is said and done. And even now, legit #1 run defense. You can't run on this Colts D? what?
The Lions had only 29 rushing yards, and it's esp hard to blame a run defense for a scramble on a passing snap, so realistically thats only 19 yards when the D was defending a run play. Crazy.

The pass D had some problems, if the pressure wasn't getting there, Stafford was good enough to find the holes in the zone. That 73 yard pass was a disaster.

We'll see what Lamar Jackson can do next week. He's fast, but I'm not worried about that, i think Darius Leonard will spy him and is fast enough to contain him. He has a great deep ball, but can he read the zones. If he can, then we could see a similar stat line for him as Stafford put up, and we're going to need the offense to do a repeat performance. If not, then our D could come away with 2 or 3 INTs instead.