ALLEN PARK -- Another year brought another scheme change for Jarrad Davis, and in the National Football League, or Not For Long, time and change can hit like a bowling-ball rusher slashing right up and through that place you call pride.
That was last Sunday against the Vikings, a game Davis and the Lions had mostly shut down in the run defense for once. Of Minnesota's 23 carries, 22 had gone for a total of 58 yards. But then here came Dalvin Cook up through a hole sized for an actual Viking ship. Davis stepped over toward a climbing center and then back, got stuck on the block and Cook zipped 70 yards down the right sideline to set up a score.