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Oh, those Lions. That was a very
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important week number two offensive
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performance. I never want to go crazy
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about week two, week one, week three.
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Really, until we get into October, I
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think we can all agree you don't need to
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the way they had played in week one
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against the Packers, the off season of
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losing both coordinators and a couple of
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offensive linemen, including Frank
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with Ben Johnson coming into Detroit.
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This was bigger than your normal week
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two. This was bigger because if the
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had put up a pathetic offensive effort
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like they did in week number one, if the
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Bears came in and rattled off 34 points,
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if it looked like there was a power
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shift dramatically in the NFC North,
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that boy, the Lions had this brief
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window of two seasons to get to a Super
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Bowl and it's already slammed closed.
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That would be pretty darn depressing.
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they dropped 50 plus points on the Bears
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and on Ben Johnson, the guy that so many
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people thought was the only reason the
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Detroit Lions offense was explosive.
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They needed that. They needed that one.
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And as our headline extraordinaire, the
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Marquette Marvel Aiden Hatton has
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written there, they needed to cure the
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blues. Coming out of week number one,
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there was a lot of sky is falling talk
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in Detroit. And I know Lions fans wanted
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to be as optimistic as possible, but I
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hadn't Lions fans reaching out to me
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this week saying, "Is the window
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actually already closed? It's two
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And I don't think it is. But had they
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had the Bears offense sung today,
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it would have felt really damning. It
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would have felt like, man, the Magic has
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left the building and it's going to be a
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lot to bring it back. So, not only did
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they win, but it wasn't ugly. It wasn't
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a defensive effort. It was offense. And
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they punctuated the drives with
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touchdowns. And for them to drop 50
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points on the Bears, on Ben Johnson, and
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get all the big players involved and get
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all the offensive weapons that they have
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intact and engaged, that one, they
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needed that. That was a feelgood win. It
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was a feel-good way to win. And Dan
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Campbell, the Lions, they needed that
