Since becoming a member of the Lions in 2023, Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery have turn out to be the primary working again duo in NFL historical past to every rating 10-plus speeding touchdowns in consecutive seasons. They’ve additionally gained greater than 1,000 yards every in these seasons, and earned new nicknames – Sonic and Knuckles after Sega’s well-known recreation characters.
They’re two completely different model backs. Gibbs has a lot velocity in bursts, he stretches your defence laterally. Then Montgomery is straight down the road and has superb stability in touch, he hits individuals and retains driving his ft.
That mixture is bodily exhausting for a defence as a result of you have to preserve adjusting to the velocity and dimension of whichever again’s in entrance of you – and it is enjoyable to see the connection they’ve with quarterback Jared Goff.
The Lions’ offensive line provides Goff a lot time within the pocket. That enables him to make clear selections and shield the ball. He is been an exceptional chief, and he has a wise and dependable receiver in Amon-Ra St. Brown.
The Lions have had a few shut video games however they’re discovering alternative ways to win, and that resiliency makes you’re feeling that Sunday’s recreation with the Buffalo Payments may very well be a Tremendous Bowl preview.
The Payments have additionally had accidents however they’ve had a robust offensive line for some time, they only did not have the weapons, so probably the greatest issues they did was commerce for Amari Cooper. They wanted that primary receiver with dependable arms.
James Cook dinner has bought 11 speeding touchdowns, receiver Khalil Shakir has stepped up and working again Ray Davis has been an incredible addition.
They’re assuaging the strain on quarterback Josh Allen. He is all the time felt he must put the staff on his again, whereas now they’re sort of the identical because the Lions in that they each have that ‘everyone eats’ mentality.
It would not matter who’s receiving the ball, they’re so excited for one another they usually know success comes from a staff perspective.
Allen is defending the ball – 5 interceptions is far improved on current years – and he would not really feel like he has to make these superb performs. However he can nonetheless make them, as we have seen the previous two weeks, equivalent to with the ‘lake impact lateral’ from the snow recreation towards San Francisco.