Early in the week the message from the Detroit Lions was that they planned to simplify things on defense. Thursday, Matt Patricia seemed to almost bring the defense back to square one when he said, “For the most part, I would say trying to do a little bit less overall would be good and try to get our guys to be able to play faster out on the field. That’s certainly something I think we can do, and then build as we go forward.”
If simplifying things and doing less means doing all the things the Lions should have been doing on defense from the beginning, then I urge the Lions to do even less than what they did in Jacksonville on Sunday.