Lions safety Duron Harmon promises redemption: ‘We will fix it’

“We will be better.” That’s the promise safety Duron Harmon is making after a gut-wrenching loss to the Chicago Bears on Sunday.

The Detroit Lions’ 2019 fourth-quarter woes continued into this season as they squandered a 23-6 lead into the third quarter and lost 27-23.

While this offseason the offense coined the term “dagger time” to emphasize closing games the right way, Harmon said making those big stops late in the game matters on the other side of the ball as well.

“We just didn’t finish. We gotta finish. We talk about being a good football team and if you don’t finish, it doesn’t matter. Injuries, none of that matters, scheme, none of that matters, at the end of the day we gotta finish,” he said.

Though the defense was pretty beat up, Harmon wouldn’t accept that as an excuse. He said all teams face injuries — it’s next man up.

“When somebody gets hurt, you expect to continue to perform at a high level. We didn’t do that in the fourth quarter,” he said.

At the end of the day, Harmon is all in on the Lions and promises better results.

“We will be better, because I believe in the team, I believe in the coaching staff, I believe in what we do. I believe in the process that we take. Obviously it didn’t end the way that we wanted it to, but we know what we need to do to fix it, and we will fix it,” he said.

Watch the full video of player interviews below:

And onto the rest of your notes.

• Not needing much explanation, here’s “Detroit Lions’ latest meltdown made me want to punch my laptop” from Detroit Free Press’ Carlos Monarrez.
• On the other hand, Freep columnist Shawn Windsor invites you not to give up on the team just yet.
• “Virtual fans, cutouts, fake crowd noise: Welcome to a new NFL game experience.” Colton Pouncy for The Athletic focuses on the aesthetic changes to the 2020 season. (Subscription required)
• Some words from Adrian Peterson, who absolutely shined on Sunday.

• No tailgating this year. Rod Beard for the Detroit News explained what that looked like this past Sunday.
• There was one group, however, that still came out — but to honor recently passed Detroit Fire Capt. Frank Williams.
• Linebacker Jamie Collins got tossed outta the game for making contact with a ref. Here’s a Q&A with said ref.