Here’s a compilation of Detroit Lions news for the weekend before free agency.
The NFL’s “free agency frenzy” will begin on Monday, March 11, with the “legal tampering period” beginning and players being able to officially sign on Wednesday afternoon, March 13.
This first full week of March, between the NFL Combine and the start of the new league year, will move at a snail’s pace in comparison. However, there is still plenty of conjecture about free agency, trades, and the draft.
On this Friday, as we head into the weekend before free agency, let’s look at some Lions news.
Jared Goff the difference maker for the Lions?
On Thursday’s edition of ESPN’s “First Take”, analyst Harry Douglas went bold with his opinion the Lions are the top threat to dethrone the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, not the San Francisco 49ers.
“That’s the Detroit Lions,” Douglas explained. “When I look at this team and you look at Jared Goff at the quarterback position, he understands what it takes to beat a guy like Patrick Mahomes,” stated Douglas. “Now, granted, they did it in the season’s first game on Thursday night. The Chiefs didn’t have Travis Kelce or Chris Jones. We understand that those are two large holes that did not exist. But I’m going to go back to his time with the Los Angeles Rams, when they had that shootout against Patrick Mahomes and company. So, Jared Goff has played Patrick Mahomes a few times in his career, (and) he understands how to play against a guy like that, how you have to hold the fort down as a quarterback.”
Goff has beaten Mahomes a couple times. But the Lions as a whole are a threat to stop a three-peat by the Chiefs, not just Goff by himself. Douglas acknowledged that in the rest of his comments.
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