Alex Anzalone Goes Down, But the Lions Have Proven They Don’t Blink
The Lions lost another defensive captain in Alex Anzalone, but if you’ve watched this team all season, you already know the playbook: next man up, no excuses, keep rolling.
The Lions lost another defensive captain in Alex Anzalone, but if you’ve watched this team all season, you already know the playbook: next man up, no excuses, keep rolling.
When you’re on pace for a 1,200-yard season with double-digit touchdowns and you’re the best player on the field in the NFC Championship, you get to play by different rules. That’s just how the real world works.
Jared Goff has been one of the best quarterbacks in football for multiple seasons now, the Lions are 9-1 and Super Bowl favorites, and the national media still won’t give him his respect. Detroit’s done waiting for permission.
It’s time to say it out loud: Jared Goff is on a Hall of Fame trajectory. If he continues playing at this level, the Lions could make history with back-to-back Canton-bound quarterbacks.
The Detroit Lions are the betting favorites to win the Super Bowl. Not the Chiefs. Not the Bills. Detroit. And the path of destruction they’re leaving behind is unlike anything this league has seen in years.
Only four safeties have ever won Defensive Player of the Year in NFL history. The way Kerby Joseph is playing, he’s got a real shot at becoming the fifth.
Forget the two-first-round-pick packages floating around. There’s a path to landing Myles Garrett in Detroit that doesn’t handicap Brad Holmes’ draft magic — and it actually makes sense for both sides.
Penei Sewell drove All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons 15 yards into the end zone against his will. That’s not hyperbole — that’s the best player in football doing best-player-in-football things.
Jared Goff is putting up historic numbers and sitting top-three in the MVP race, yet somehow every bit of praise comes with an asterisk. The Lions quarterback can’t catch a clean compliment even when he’s playing some of the best football of his career.
If the Lions were undefeated right now, Jared Goff would be the consensus MVP favorite. Nothing about his play would change — just the narrative around him.