Rams vs Lions Final/OT FULL GAME Sep 08, 2024 WEEK 1 | NFL KickOff 2024

take over at the 30 Stafford was eight of eight on that drive for 73 yds in the touchdown and now Jared G this Lions offense that has been held in check here in the second half but for one big play has to get going different Cooper cup he's healthy in this game as opposed to the wild card game where he's at the back end of an injury filled season so now the Lions trying to find their Playmakers safe Brown The Man in Motion been targeted only a couple of times tonight and they get it to him to start this drive gain of five for his third catch of the night Mike one of the interesting things that we've seen out of Chris schula tonight is a lot of times the Rams would be in a two deep with their safeties you know they are starting off there but they've been rolling down so there's been a lot more pressure on these corners on the outside and Kobe Durant and travius white gave up the one double move but they've held up pretty well they have a bunch of guys hurting on the outside as well 35 pressure up the edge do as he throws it's incomplete terrific pressure from Kobe Durant off that corner got to G as he was about to throw third down coming up Durant slow to get up boy anytime on the back side of a play you have a fairly tight receiver it is a problem and that time Big Time Rush by Jared bur inside as well they are starting to dial up that's one of the few times we've seen Chris schula dial up some pressure early on third down intercepted by Durant but drop Durant doesn't complete the catch coming down to the ground it's Nock is an incomplete pass fourth down it's a three and out and with 415 left they'll punt it [Applause] away that was still some play by Durant when I saw the throw I said that's going to get over his head and his vertical is a little better than mine and he went up and got it even though he didn't catch it he got it this Lions offense I believe it's their third three and out in this second half they have not sustained offense and they left their defense out there they didn't trust being cam Jack Fox kicks it deep and it's fair caught by KY Williams 55 yd punt Rams great to see Brant back in the State Rams lead by three 410 to go and Stafford has been great in this half back to the air and underneath it'll be cup again who's having some kind of night gain a four for Cooper's 14th grab of the evening you know it it almost almost feels like the Rams brains are sort of cut in quarters doesn't it you got Shawn McVey and Mike lefur and you got Matthew Stafford you got Cooper cuff and somehow they all know what each other's doing out there or would they love to be able to run the football for a first down here second and five Stafford will throw throwing from the middle it's incomplete no flag thrown even though they were looking for one it's third down Tyler Johnson the intended receiver and a massive play coming up here with 320 to [Applause] go a ton of pressure on the cornerbacks now for the Detroit Lions they have to have a stop and oh boy Stafford got another shot on that ankle leevi onque Stafford getting that ankle tweak a couple of times no flag for going low anzalone was looking over to the sideline to get a call for Detroit on defense third and five Lions brings four collaps the pocket and the pass is caught for the first down of the 21 what a play at Demarcus Robinson with the pressured coming in Stafford this may be the throw of the year right here watch this just watch Matthew Stafford here how does he even see the guy down the field much less falling backwards fadeaway jumper no look whatever the heck that was and complete that third down pass that is redonkulous right there wow it's about the th of those he's thrown in this building over his 16 years plays like that all the time Kon Williams stopped for two Detroit use the timeout here at 2:30 they do taking their first two more to go it's been the Cooper cup show tonight and we are going to start you out you remember the little toe Tapper here this was on his last drive to start it off no nobody in the building could believe it but he got that foot down twice not just once here he comes with the return motion and able to outlit Carlton Davis on that one and I tell you we have seen two great competitors and for everything puka AA did for this offense it was Cooper Cup who took puka AA in the off season gave him about 10 days off after the playoff loss and those two went to work and Maka got hurt and super cup has simply taken over second and 12 2 31 to go Lions took the first of their three timeouts he knows he has man coverage now shifting out and alone he went with him so here comes Cup in that second motion good FL fifth one on the Rams tonight Bal start offense number 71 5y penalty remains second down the right tackle McLendon and Mike one of the problems you have especially in a building like this all this motion and all those calls take time they have to be communicated and so that means that sha mcfay has to get the play in early so that Matthew staffer can get up there and do that but sometimes the lineman can get a little off tighten up the comage they're going to run on second and 17 receiver's block for Kyon Williams who is out of bounds that helps the Lions a lot with 226 to go preserves a timeout for them as you get to Third and [Applause] long there's no question kyen Williams was still going forward and that hurt that really hurt need to get just shy of the 32 to get a first down do you decoy with Cooper cup to get somebody open here and somebody is going to have to block Aiden Hutchinson on the left side R bring four Stafford floats it in the middle for cup incomplete no Flags Plus stops at 221 so the Lions will get the ball with two timeouts that ball likely complete but for the fact that Aiden Hutchinson was there again Stafford is going to step up but it's this little twirl move back inside by Hutchinson that didn't give him a chance to sort of turn his body and get into that throw the way that he might have Ethan Evans worked very hard on extra Hang Time on his punch this year that's exactly what he hit alif Rond from the 28 looking to pick up some blocks beautiful tackle at the 33 yd line the rookie Jordan Whittington made a terrific special teams play earned the job as a gunner rookie from Texas got it done and here we go with Jared gof and the Lions trying to get a field goal to tie or a touchdown to take the lead and Mike this is utter exhaustion time if you're a player on opening night it just there's no way you're in shape to play all four quarters yet because you didn't play much in the pre-season so two tired sets of athletes out there going head to-head right now jir gives the back the Lions will run it first time with GBS to the 36 he'll pick up five and we get two in two-minute warning wildcard game was a one-point game one by Detroit the ride here two minutes to go we li two timeouts second and five and G in the middle of the fields got for tight end leapa to the 46 plus it's a hit and that will take him into field goal range no doubt helmet to helmet shot young rookie Cameron kitens personal foul unnecessary roughness Defense number 26 that 15 yard penalty will be added to the results of the play automatic first down take the ball to the 31 yd line Mike I I don't know what the strategy was for this game but I would bring almond raw St Brown back inside with Sam lorta we haven't seen a lot of production out of those two they're their two best clutch receivers give them a chance to work together they're on the same side of the field now at the top of the screen and 53 Rams have all three timeouts Lions have two go swinging Gibs has got some blockers jir GS 51 to their yard line a bigger part as he rolled up on St Brown clock continues to go minute 40 remaining in regulation and now you have to start thinking about the Rams and whether or not Shawn's going to start calling some timeouts second and short Detroit very wisely here just going back to the Huddle they want to burn what they can actually not picking up a first down there helped they assuming they make the first down safer than two with two timeouts everything available to Ben Johnson the play caller Davison Williams in motion SC searching throwing in zone GS goes down incomplete as he was trying to get to that open space and goof losted it's third down remember the Lions have a rookie kicker in his first game Gibbs out there and he sort of got bumped around a little bit and tried to figure out what to do with that one and just lost his footing for a touchdown a rookie kicker is Jake Bates making his NFL debut lion struggled with the kicking in the regular season we're good in the postseason Michael Badgley got injured during Camp Bates got the job third two going try and get it on the ground with GBS turns it up got it first down and he went out of bounds so the clock stops with a minute left but it's first down Detroit at the 20 yd line that was a great effort by GIF wasn't it I wasn't sure he was going to get there or not we know about the [Music] speed great effort by curl but not enough it's so interesting okay so what are they revealing if his arm is in bounds perhaps then he would be down and the clock would keep running right forearm [Music] [Applause] down the elbow bring Terry mcau three time Super Bowl referee our rules analyst Terry yeah Mike it does appear as forearm goes down before he goes out of bounds so it will change it to a running clock there'll be a 10-second runoff unless one of the teams uses their timeout to avoid a 10-second runoff which that was the Rams I would use wouldn't you Chris I think so too but are you going to make it too easy for him to score a touchdown on you you know what I mean are you helping hurting it's a tough call it's it's not an automatic but I do think that they have to put the pressure back on this Lion's offense and make them go for determin that it was a catch but that the runner was down inbounds the clock will be adjusted accordingly and after the Houston Indianapolis first half today let's see if this is done slowly and clearly communicated to both teams as to the no timeout taken and the status of the clock which should start once it's ready for play the play ended at 102 there will be a 10-second runoff please set the game clock to 52 seconds please set the play clock to 30 seconds both clots will start on might ready for play signal there you go both clots will start important to communicate that thank you there that rule the 10-second runoff with that replay review in the last two minutes cost the Lions a game once in this building so very well aware of that and Detroit has a couple of timeouts as well so plenty of time for them to do anything they want it is first and 10 the 20 it's go thr inside see brown slipped and put the ball In Harm's Way with Quinton Lake right there second and 10 tell you what that was a heck of an effort by St Brown to just knock that ball down I I thought there was going to be an opportunity he slips he has no chance to catch it but watch the double effort here to just get his hand on it and make sure that Lake did not pick that off that was close sa Brown and Khalif Raymond go to the top of the screen Williams and leor to the bottom got throws Crossing it's Williams at the 14 he's taken down by Lake mark it at the 15 29 seconds clock continues to go Dan Campbell's down there neither team takes the time out now Campbell does with 23 seconds remaining such interesting use of timeouts and decisions here how many shots do you have at the end zone will it be in the foot of Jake Bates to tie the game so now if they don't pick up this first down now you'll see the Rams take the timeout so they'll have something left on the clock to work with for the field goal and they've got Joshua cardi the kicker from Stanford who has made a 60 plus yarder his college days so lot going on both ways here in this building oh that's uh baates the Lions made it in this building they both made 60s in a past life oh okay I thought you were talking about the L my bad I was just anthy you were already ahead on the Rams getting it back so I went twice as far with that's what I all right let's see what the Lions will try to do here they can get a first down inside the [Applause] 10 for in motion gof first looks Rec covered comes back incomplete to Gibs so now with 20 seconds left it is up to Jake Bates to try to tie the game so Bates didn't kick field goals and extra points in college a year at Arkansas a couple years in Texas State he was the kickoff specialist and then the guy who played mostly soccer in his early college days in central Arkansas got to the UFL the spring league and here in this building played for the Michigan Panthers it was very good here he is to tie the game from 32 yards and he does 2020 with 17 seconds remaining so Bates hits his first pressur kick you asked for the kick in this building Chris and he was going it just doesn't bother him like if he misses a kick it doesn't bother him and it was is he a perfect kicker or are we going to have to live with some Growing Pains yeah that's going to happen to us but here he is in the first game the guy who really doesn't look upset when he missed the kick calmly just knocks it through with all the pressure in the world and everybody in the country watching so they've tied it at 20 17 seconds left Dynamic kickoff they'll last baits to kick it into the end zone and come out to the Third Melissa I talked to Jake Bates right before the game he very focused all business ahead of his NFL debut and I asked him if he was going to be having flashbacks to that 64 yd field goal and he laughed and said uh not really I think I'll just be trying to stay in the moment and he was y there's half the distance 32 [Applause] yds all even at 20 and Matthew Stafford who can get yards and chunks in his head some late game heroics in this building during his Lions time can he get him downfield to give their rookie kicker Joshua cardi a chance to win the game from the 30 Stafford pressure throwing downfield is an intercepted no Carlton Davis couldn't bring it in [Applause] whoa Davis down and the athletic training staff out to look at him quickly the Rams trainers doing a solid make sure he's okay that is a game changing play yep no doubt cuz that gives him the ball at the 45 yd line and maybe 20 yards away from a game-winning field goal attempt that's right so because of the injury in the last two minutes the Lions had a timeout so that'll cost them their last one and now Chris they'll have two rookie Corners the guys they drafted on the field in this key spot as Andis R st will will come yeah and this is always an interesting question right I mean do you throw up the Hail Mary and tell your guys look worst case scenario make the tackle on this thing down there but if you catch it you line up call timeout kick the field goal I mean this is the time you have to do it right now if you want to take a shot the other thing that's always possible here are those sort of catch and run plays where they push off the ball and somebody runs in behind and you run as far as you can to have some shot at kicking a long field goal because if you can get 30 yds to the 40 you're going to take a swing at it with cardi yeah so some sometimes Hail Mary sometimes deep Crossing rout in this situation which the alternative may be for Aaron Glen let's go put pressure on him don't let Stafford stand back there and pick us apart 11 seconds remaining pirate Williams out there so attemped here come the Lions bring it four Stafford steps up he almost lost the ball Hutchinson brings him down and that'll send us to over top Aiden Hutchinson gets the sack up to a maximum of 10 minutes each team will get an opportunity to possess the ball unless the opening drive is in a touchdown a safety or team would have possessed the ball for the entire 10-minute period um fourth quarter timing rules will be in effect each team will get two timeouts and all replays will be from upstairs Los Angeles you're the visitor this is the point I'm going to flip this side is heads the side with the a is tails what is your call heads is the call it is the Tails Detroit is win the ball Detroit has won the top and receive on this end just overtime we had 13 overtimes in the NFL last regular season none of them ended at a tie we also had OT in the Super Bowl Lions will get this at the 30 yard line Mike you know what I would do here Jameson Williams is having a huge night right M and he already has a double move touchdown against travia's white I would go get him lined up on that I would make a really bad double move and have him sprinting down the field and stop a little bit of a comeback route I think that you would see white give him a ton of room and it would be an easy throw it's probably why they don't have him in the game now David Montgomery is the back take it to him get into the hands of Raymond H Raymond first down to the 42 I start a little bit of misdirection there to begin this overtime Drive touchdown and they win the game it's such a good play call isn't it I mean you're talking about Ben Johnson it's overtime you know they're going to be hyped up these young players on the Rams defense and you go reverse right off the bat get them to slow down just a bit coming out with their big people three tight ends including hessie the [Applause] fullback back to lead the way for the run for Montgomery into the secondary Montgomery to the 37 yd line big run of 21 for David when the game's on the line let's make sure pan Fools inv Fall we're going to go right at him secure the double team up to the linebacker on the next level there he goes and David mcgomery comes up big when it matters most I love watching P play I think he's one of the really good players in the league gain to 12 and 21 it is Montgomery bouncing off tackle will not be denied verse bangs him down gain of nine to the 28 great combination of speed and power he's going to get right there and break a tackle from the big guy Kobe Turner and then just stayed with it I mean these Detroit Lions they talk about grit but they play with grit we've done a lot of since in this building in our visit here the Lions haven't won an overtime game since 2016 at Minnesota from the 28th go swinging jir GS running first down inside the 20 to the 19 yd line get a touchdown wins the game and the Rams will never touch it you start thinking about it right you start thinking how much do you need before you're going to go line up and kick it you start thinking about which side do you want your kick to be able to kick it from but it's coming so easily right now I don't think you'll see them take big chances I just think they'll play Under Control till they get the third down and maybe kick it there try to score don't let the Rams have a chance to even touch the ball G with blocking to the 15 yd line he is pulled back now obviously got to have the touchdown here going all the way down be second and seven here as Gibbs comes out and you pointed it out Chris what's the strength of your team you're a powered team and they showed even though it was a reverse in there use that offensive line here at this point in the game they typically when they really need it they go [Applause] right second and seven inside run Montgomery close to the first down be just shy but needed to get to the eight third down here they happen not to get the third down be interesting does Dan Campbell go for it on fourth down and overtime down here yes they're getting the push you talked about it game one of the Season some Tire bodies one for the first down nine for the touchdown [Applause] [Music] Montgomery first down to Dr at the five the four the three two the one yd line sh B think about a timeout here to give his defense a chance to catch their breath I mean it is just utter exhaustion and when you're getting pushed backwards like that there's no reason to do anything but they're just going to all slam down inside and try to push the Rams defense in time out [Applause] Rams just to give his guys a shot time out Los Angeles they're first exhaustion on the Ram side and we talk about a season of expectations for the Lions they're supposed to be really good you're supposed to take care of your home games it's a playoff caliber team in the Rams but if you think you are that good you take the ball you go behind your strength you go down the field and Detroit's a yard away from win number one of the season [Applause] they are not taking David Montgomery out of this game first and goal from the one it is Montgomery and this is a Dre lion overtime win [Applause]