The Detroit Lions rolled past the Arizona Cardinals 45-21 before their bye week, and Amon-Ra St. Brown wasn’t interested in celebrating his own stat line.
Detroit scored on seven straight drives after a sluggish start, turning the game into a runaway. Jahmyr Gibbs piled up more than 200 yards from scrimmage, Jared Goff was efficient, and Sam LaPorta and Jameson Williams teamed up for three touchdowns.
St. Brown, meanwhile, finished with 69 yards - but also two fumbles, including one on a punt return after he was thrust into that role following Tom Kennedy’s season-ending MCL tear.
On his St. Brown Podcast, the Lions receiver was blunt about his night.
“I felt like I had a (expletive) game, if I am being honest” the former Lions’ fourth-round pick said. “Like, one of my worst games I’ve ever had in Detroit.
I just feel like it just wasn’t my best stuff. But, we got a lot of great players on our team that picked me up.
That’s what good teams do. Sometimes players or good players don’t play their best, but you got other players to pick them up.
I think a lot of my teammates did that last game. I’m fortunate enough to be on a team like this that has a lot of good players that can do that for me.
I mean, I can’t imagine being on different teams that can’t, that don’t have the type of weapons and type of leaders that we have. Like I said, I’m fortunate, I’m blessed.
Big win for us, I’m excited to be going into the bye week with that win."
He also zeroed in on the Lions’ uneven start, which included three straight three-and-outs.
“Offense, we started out slow. I think we had three three-and-outs is what I counted.
I was on the sideline like ‘no way we just had three three-and-outs,’” St. Brown revealed.
“I’m like, damn.’ But defense, I mean, they played amazing.
To have them do what they did for us, they got us started. As an offense, when you can’t get things going, you’re just hoping that the defense holds strong, you get another chance, another crack at it to make a play and put some points on the board.
The defense did that, they got a lot of stops on third down.”
That slow opening has stayed on his mind, especially because it already burned Detroit in Week 2 against Buffalo, when the Lions fell behind by three scores.
“We started off slow, we can’t have that. To be where we really want to be, we got to be able to start fast and then finish strong,” the longtime Lions player said, punching his hand.
“Everything between, you want to play well, but starting fast is very important and ending the half strong and finishing the game strong. If we can correct that, we will be great.”
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