Y'all still think Henry is king?

Lions conclude week 3 of the NFL 2025 season with a HUGE matchup against the Baltimore Ravens. An extremely dominant team we have seen in the first 2 weeks of the year. Albeit choking a 15 point lead against Buffalo and playing a Cleveland Browns team who have a dyslexic offense. I admit there were nerves for this game and I was 100% expecting a loss. I just wanted it to be competitive. Unlike the competitiveness the Lions absolutely lacked the last time they played the Ravens in Baltimore. What I would see however... would completely blow me away and absolutely shock me.

Like I said, I was nervous going into this game. This would be a genuine test. Last week against the Bears was a gimme. I mean... it's the Bears. I wanted to see if the Lions would improve after their performance against the Packers. The Lions would get the ball to start the game. And to my surprise they were actually moving the ball down the field. I thought that would never happen. Not even a minute in and they were already in Baltimore territory. Jared Goff was throwing that ball without a care in the world. However after an incomplete pass on 3rd and 3, the Lions would have to take a field goal... HAH LOL NO OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T! They were on the fucking 11 yard line of the Ravens! If you think Dan Campbell would take a lousy 3 points then you are out of your damn mind. Of course they went for it! And they got it! And then at the 1 yard line, Baltimore could not stop Gibbs from scoring. Holy shit the Lions have a lead? Against the Ravens? IN THIS ECONOMY? That's amazing! And... oh yeah I forgot Baltimore's offense exists. Yeah needless to say, Detroit's defense didn't exist on Baltimore's first drive and it led to a touchdown ultimately. King Henry strikes again with a 28 yard touchdown. Annnd were tied at 7. On Detroit's next drive, not like anything exciting happened. Goff threw a backwards pass to Gibbs. We thought it was incomplete? But no because it was backwards it counted as a loss of 9 yards. So yeah we ultimately go 3 and out and have to give the ball back to Baltimore who will ultimately score another touchdown... what do you mean Baltimore went 3 and out? Huh... well alrighty then. So Baltimore punts the ball and... we start... at our own fucking TWO YARD line. Well that's nice ain't it? Who in the right mind thinks we can score starting from our own 2 yard line? Not me of course!

We get a few runs going. You know... a gain of 4... then we lose 1... but then Goff throws a 10 yard dart to LaPorta. Then Montgomery gets 13 yards... then why not? Goff has legs too. He'll get 5 more yards. Yes yes I know Lamar Jackson probably would've gotten 73 yards. Let a man dream okay? 3rd and 8 at the Lions 30. Will the Ravens stop them. NOPE! LaPorta with 14 more yards and holy shit we're moving the ball what the fuck is happening? And we're getting big gains too. 9 yards for Gibbs, 8 for Monty, 10 more for Monty... wait we're deep in Baltimore territory now? WE STARTED AT OUR OWN TWO YARD LINE! Oh and sure... fuck it... QB sneak to get us 1st and Goal. And then a couple plays later... we're up 14-7 with a Monty touchdown. So so far that's already 8 more points than we scored last time we played Baltimore. So here comes the kickoff and oh great of course we deliver a hole to Rasheen Ali. At least Jake Bates himself was there to make a tackle which probably saved a touchdown. Now can our defense do anything. Abso-fucking-lutely not. Ravens have 1st and Goal at our 3 yard line. Perfect. Just what I need. a 14-14 tie. Henry gets 2 yards to make it 2nd and Goal at the 1. Yeah I don't think our defense is going to stop-Henry loses a yard and it's 3rd and Goal at the 2? Well no matter Lamar Jackson will throw the ball on 4th down to uh... uhhhh... well needless to say there's a horde of Lions coming up on his ass, he coughs up the ball, recovers it but it doesn't matter it was 4th down and it's a turnover on downs WAIT WHAT? WE FORCED A TURNOVER ON DOWNS? BALTIMORE HAD 2ND AND FUCKING GOAL AT OUR ONE... YARD... LINE!... okay so i personally apologize to kelvin sheppard... he is apparently a defensive god... i should probably take notes huh? Well unfortunately John Morton goes stupid mode with a minute and 24 seconds left and does nothing for the offense. And remember when I apologized to Sheppard? Yeah I want to take that back... in 32 seconds, Baltimore runs right down the fucking field and makes it a 14-14 tie. Plus Baltimore gets the ball to start the 2nd half. Cool cool cool. At the very end of the half, Jake Bates would go fuck it mode and try a 67 yarder... it failed horribly but it didn't matter. The half was over.

Despite a sack... miraculous sack on Jackson on their first drive in the 2nd half, Baltimore still scored a touchdown and now it's 21-14 Ravens. And here's were everything goes to shit huh? And oh what's this? A back toss to Monty who throws it back to Goff who throws it to St. Brown for 17 yards? Oh okay so John Morton may know a trick play or two... speaking of St. Brown... touchdown Lions and it's 21 all. See that's cool and all but now Baltimore is going to rush down the fi-nevermind Al-Quadin Muhammad pins Lamar down for a loss of 7 and after an incompletion to Bateman, the Ravens have to punt... huh... the Lions have a defense again? Nooo that's not right. So the punt is away annnnnnd it's downed at the fucking 4 yard line. Dammit Ravens stop having an amazing special teams unit. Well it took us what... 10 minutes to score when we were pinned in our own 2. I don't imagine it would be any shorter he-David Montgomery gets a 72 yard run and we're at the Ravens 13 yard line. Holy fuck we have a run game? WHAT IS HAPPENING? So we get down to the 4 but it's 4th and Goal. I mean a field-I won't even bother finishing that of course Dan Campbell fucking goes for it. It's another fucking trick play. Goff hands to St. Brown which... for one... should've been a warning to Baltimore like... oh shit St. Brown is not a runningback. And then he pitches the ball to Gibbs who then scores the touchdown and the Lions are back on top. Holy shit what a fucking game. Annnd then here comes Baltimore. a 20 yard pass here... 16 yard pass there... 2 sacks all around-WHAT? Yep. Lamar Jackson gets sacked not once... but TWICE! I mean seriously Lamar was probably holding that ball for 10 fucking years. HEY BUDDY.... YOU EVER HEAR OF THROWING THE DAMN BALL AWAY? Baltimore still gets a field goal out of it so but we still have a 28-24 lead. This game is... it's unreal. UNREAL! Sadly we go 3 and fucking out on our next possession. And now shit gets scary because I mean yeah it's not like we are DANGEROUSLY low on time but ideally a stop is... uh well... ideal.

And well that didn't take fucking long at all. in 5 fucking seconds, Aiden Hutchinson forces "king" Henry to cough up the ball and the Lions are back on offense just like that! Awwww... are you sad Henry boy? Are you sad you fumbled again? That's too bad. Sadly an offensive Face Mask call costs the Lions. BUT... we got a field goal out of it and it's 31-24 Lions. Baltimore knows what they have to do. Punt the ball of course! Oh I'm sorry did you think I said they scored a touchdown? Lol nah. Lamar Jackson gets sacked again for a loss of 6 yards. And after that they fail miserably to convert. Of course our offense gets small gain chunks but it's 4th and 2 at their own 49-are you fucking kidding me? No there's no shot the offense is going for it. Nah surely they're going to make Baltimore jump offsides-they're going for it. They're going for it! AND THEY GOT IT! HOLY SHIT! BIG BALLS DAN CAMPBELL STRIKES AGAIN! There is a flag but it's holding on Baltimore. DECLINED! Oh and sure... how about a 31 yard Monty tuddy for THE FUCKING DAGGER! Holy shit... we're gonna beat the Ravens! We're actually gonna beat the Ravens! ON FUCKING PRIMETIME! HOLY SHIT! Sure. Let's fucking sack Lamar one more time for a loss of... oh I don't know... SIXTEEN YARDS? of course they convert because fuck me. Baltimore gets their garbage time touchdown and try to go for 2 which fails horribly. And Detroit recovers the onside kick. Goff takes a knee and it's game the fuck over. The Lions... on Monday Night Football... defeat... the Baltimore Ravens. DEFEAT! They beat the fucking Ravens in Baltimore. This is also the first time in franchise history that the Lions have defeated this Ravens team in Baltimore and the first time in 2 decades that the Lions beat the Ravens. Just fucking wow. Well shit now it feels like the Lions can beat fucking anybody! Maybe we were too pessimistic after week 1.

And sure yeah we play the Browns next week who have the worlds best defense. At least their offense is pee-pee poo-poo. Plus I wouldn't expect Detroit to make the same mistakes Green Bay did against Cleveland. I'm sure they watched the tapes.