The Detroit Lions did not have the opportunity to play against the Philadelphia Eagles this season. Philadelphia maintained its end of the treatment playing in the NFC championship game, but Detroit lost to Washington’s commanders in the Divisional Round of the playoffs.
The Eagles ended up winning the Super Bowl, while the lions had a disappointing end for a 15-2 season.
There is an opportunity for lions to see how good they are against Super Bowl champions, since Detroit plays Philadelphia next season. The open receiver of the amon-ra lions St. Brown wants Philadelphia on the opening night (the Eagles receive the launch game since they are the defense champions of the Super Bowl).
“Eagles has the first year next year, because they won the Super Bowl,” said St. Brown in his podcast with his brothers Equanimeus and Osiris. “Can I read the list of teams that could be in that first game? Commanders, Cowboys, Giants, Bears, Lions, Raiders, Rams, Broncos. Of all those teams, if you are the NFL, who are you putting there?”
St. Brown’s brothers told the Lions, which led Amon-ra to say this.
“That’s what I’m saying. So we could be playing the opening night,” said St. Brown. “You would see what our healthy defense, how that shit works.”
The lions had many injuries in their defense last season, since 30 players began last year (tied in most by any NFL team on one side of the ball since the fusion of 1970). They allowed 32.5 points per game and 7.4 yards per game in December, most yards per game allowed by any team in December in the Super Bowl era. They allowed only 16.4 points per game from September to November and lost five headlines of week 1 in its opening of playoffs.
St. Brown has a point, but the Eagles also had 95 points in their last two games, the most combined points between a conference championship game and a Super Bowl in the history of the NFL playoffs.
The Eagles did their job and the lions did not. The battle between two of the powers of the conference will be one to see in 2025, regardless of the week they play.
