Shep Has To Fix This Before Buffalo, It wasn't the secondary

Lions 31, Saints 30 in overtime. Up 21-0 and it nearly got away — but the problem wasn't who everyone thinks it was.

James was at Ford Field. We go through the third-quarter snap chart, Tyler Shough's second half, Jahmyr Gibbs' workload, the Pacheco news, and what Kelvin Sheppard has to fix before Thursday night in Buffalo.

0:00 Intro: Saints at Ford Field, Bills on a short week 1:47 The Q3 snap chart — where the game turned 3:04 Tyler Shough's second half 4:41 James at Ford Field: 21-0, then the turn 6:15 Missed opportunities: the drops, the reverse, the holding call 6:58 The 4th-and-12 blitz that kept it alive 7:39 How they somehow stopped the 2-point try 8:52 BREAKING: Pacheco back surgery 10:14 The backup running back problem behind Gibbs 15:28 O-line: Ratledge, Bartch, and Blake Miller's debut 16:34 Chase Young never lined up over Miller 19:55 Tomlin on why defenses started slow league-wide 22:56 26 pressures: the front seven showed up 24:49 Linebackers and the banged-up secondary 26:08 Rapoport: 12-week timeline on Pacheco 26:42 "Offensive jitters" — is the offense actually fine? 31:29 Jameson Williams vs. Kool-Aid McKinstry 32:51 4-for-5 in the red zone and the new OT rules 37:10 LaPorta and Brock Wright in the run game 43:36 Campbell on Gibbs' workload: drink a lot of Gatorade 46:04 This is a Gibbs game: the Buffalo mismatches 49:12 To the defense — what the All-22 showed 51:34 Kellen Moore outclassed Sheppard 56:30 Blitz rate, 86 snaps, and the run defense 1:04:04 13 personnel and 75% under center 1:05:37 Three takeaways 1:09:59 Run it out of shotgun 1:14:34 Bills preview: Josh Allen and the MVP case 1:16:52 The hardest game on the schedule 1:21:23 Wrap and Thursday plans