Week 7 Quarterback Matchup: Goff vs Love

I'm Amon Ross St. Brown, and you're watching Lions Game Day Live on Fox 2 Detroit. Hey, back on. Great to have you with us at the Detroit City Distillery. Look at that. We're working off barrels here. What are barrels? What's in those? Those are bourbon barrels. Oh. Bourbon barrels. You know how jealous TJ is to miss this pregame show? He's going to come busting in here. Oh, TJ, there he is. Like the Kool-Aid man in about 10 seconds. Hey, listen. Bottom line, you guys talked about it. 22, 23, 24. The Lions were terrific in Division 25. Not so much. Got to get that thing going today, first division game. Jared Goff talked about the importance of those. Anytime you play in the division, certainly you want to get the W, and it always feels like it counts for two. I think I always say that, especially on the road. But these ones at home are big, too. Yeah, we've got to start with the first one, though, right? We've got to try to win this game and find a way. I think we're coming into that stretch at the right time where our team feels like, okay, now we know who we are and we can move forward in the right direction. I'm excited to play these guys. I know they're going to come in and bring it, And we will, too. Harrison brought to you by Wallside Windows. Whoa, Joe. Go. Love. Go. All right. You know what I see up there? I see what people think are two MVP candidates. Except I only see one MVP candidate. Yeah. No, I've heard Jordan Love mentioned as an MVP candidate. Because they've won their last three games. And he does have that deep passing game. But what Jordan Love does that gets him more acclaim or more love than I think he should get is he makes big splash plays. He is the best deep passer with those two receivers, Golden and Watson. But he completes only 59% of his passes, partly because he takes so many deep shots. But he also has made his biggest splashes in his biggest games. He's won two of his last three games here in Ford Field against the Lions. He's 11 touchdowns and only three interceptions against the Lions. I think Thanksgiving Day games against the Lions. That's why, partly why, I think he gets so much acclaim. But he was really struggling earlier, and he's not out of it completely yet. They've only scored 23 points last week against the worst defense in the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys. So I will lean towards Jared Goff in this matchup. Also helps their defense hasn't given up 14 points in the last three weeks. Give me 20 to get out of here. The best thing that Jordan Love does, and we saw it time and time again on Thanksgiving last year, is make throws off his back foot, in particular with rushers bearing down on him. That game ended last year, was sealed on a fourth down completion that he threw to Dontayvion Wicks with Hutch and McNeil a fingernail away from bringing him down. So it's not that he stands in against pressure. It's that he drifts, drifts, drifts, and then flings balls off his fingers. So, here we go. Lions-Packers meeting for the 192nd time in the regular season. I've covered 187 of them. I believe that. We'll take a break. We'll celebrate for 20.