Matt Patricia’s entire defensive philosophy is built around bending but not breaking. That’s going to be extra important Sunday as the Lions take on the Indianapolis Colts, who boast the league’s highest scorer thus far in the 2020 season in kicker Rodrigo Blankenship, aka “Hot Rod.”
For the Lions, that could be a good thing. We’ve seen historically that having a good kicker can be a fault. Too many times the Lions offense has gotten stagnant as soon as they’re in field goal range and opted for an “automatic” three points rather than going for it on very manageable fourth downs.