Welcome back to the Meantime Show featuring Lenny.

It feels like we're doing school news a little bit.

We are in New York for the audio audience.

You can also watch this on YouTube if you want to see me and Dominique sit next to each other like we're in Weekend Update.

Does feel like that.

Can I write jokes for you? You can always write jokes for me. Whether I'll use them as another story. We're here to talk about the Monday night games, which were very exciting. Were they? They were weird. Yeah. The second one was exciting in a way. I don't know. It was sloppy. Yeah, I fell asleep before the second

when I was. I had to watch it again in the morning because I'm on the East Coast, but I was less excited by it because I already knew the result. But the first one was intense. I feel like there was, I don't know, it felt like playoffy atmosphere. Box lines playing for first place in the NFC. Let's start with that one.

And then let's go in chronological order.

Because this one, the Bucks Lions game, to me, felt lopsided the whole time.

Felt like the Lions were firmly in control of that.

The Lions, weirdly, though, I thought it was going to be like a shootout and both offenses were going to go to, especially, you know, we were in Detroit and you're like in the dome. And that was not the case. The story of the game was the Lions defense, which is where I want to start because I was so impressed by them. I mean, I also would like to give a little bit of love to the box defense. I thought their defense actually played really well, all these considered.

But yeah, the Lions defense, I think we'll go to the obvious place

of like they have a whole bench secondary.

And it wasn't just that they were holding their own,

they were playing well and making plays

and Kelvin Shepard was not calling a conservative game plan to protect them.

It's just, it feels very lion'sy.

They feel like the most authentic team as far as their culture matching up with their words

on a regular basis because all coaches are like, yeah, we're not taking a step back.

We're next man up, but they actually do it and they've done it in back-to-back seasons.

So head into this lion season, we were wondering how the coordinator changes because they had coordinator changes on both sides of the ball, both sides of the ball, pardon me, would impact the team. I feel like offensively, the jury still a little bit out. The offense looks fine. We'll talk about that side in a second. And there's been games where they've looked dominant, but it, I would say, doesn't look that different.

It kind of looks a lot of copy paste from last year.

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