The Big Easy was anything but for the Detroit Lions to keep their well-earned win. The early frenzy of debauchery and revelry quickly gave way to the corporeal reality of holding onto guts, riding nauseous bouts of vertigo, and still somehow standing tall at the very end. That’s admirable in its own right and you can’t say the same for every trip to Bourbon Street in the end.
On this episode of the Pride of Detroit PODcast, we’re doing more than cliched ledes. The Lions fought for a desperate win over the New Orleans Saints, but what can we take away from late-season Lions football as true, and what’s noise for fans clamoring for defensive changes?