All right, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

Detroit Football Network Podcasts.

You might hear the echoing.

I'm Stoney here at Ford Field.

Justin Rogers is also at Ford Field in another booth.

And man, oh man, I know a lot of people thought the Lions were going to win the game.

A lot of people thought they were going to cover.

I thought they would score 31 points and win the game.

Never, Justin.

Never.

The Minnesota Vikings being held to three field goals and no touchdown was ever on anyone's mind during the lead up to this

game. Let me, let me start with this, Tony. They say ages but a number. Your energy at

245 a.m. is verifiable proof that ages but a number. I do not have your energy, and I have had a ungodly amount of caffeine since 6 p.m.

to keep me powering through this.

So kudos to you, but.

Well, thank you very much.

Yeah, look, the defensive performance was the story tonight.

And there was something I pointed out earlier this week that kind of struck me.

I was looking at DVOA, which, you know, is a complicated metric that kind of describes defensive efficiency down to down.

It's just a really good under the hood metric to describe a defense.

And you could seeroit's starting to decline

very specific moment and it's when alex anzzolone left the lineup and then got a little worse when

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