Much has been made about the Detroit Lions and their changing scheme on defense. While the 3-4 vs. 4-3 stuff has likely been overhyped by the media—as the coaching staff continues to emphasize—the other philosophical change could be just as impactful, if not more.
The Lions will now have a more attacking defensive front. On Thursday, head coach Dan Campbell gave a nice explanation of what exactly that means.
“I just call it much more ‘Hitting the blocks,’” Campbell said. “I don’t want to say we were catching (blocks), and it wasn’t two-gap, we just were a little more, ‘Play at the line of scrimmage,’ where now we really want to play more on their side of the line of scrimmage.