The Detroit Lions are off to their best start in years. They are coming off of a big Sunday night victory on the road against the Houston Texans and now will take on the 2-8 Jacksonville Jaguars in Detroit on Sunday. While the Lions are two touchdown favorites in the game, Detroit’s Offensive Coordinator Ben Johnson knows that this is not a team to take lightly.
In 6 of the 8 Jaguar losses, they either led or had the ball down by a touchdown or less in the fourth quarter. Johnson talked about the importance of keeping up the intensity against Jacksonville.
On how the Jacksonville defense is starting to click
Ben: Yeah, I think you’re seeing the coverage starting to tighten up. This is an aggressive press defense whether they’re in single-high or two-high, they like to get up in your grill and challenge. They had some coverage breakdowns early in the year, you probably saw it in the Miami game. Miami got half their yardage off of two plays. So, they’ve given up some explosive [plays] but they limited that to a larger degree last week and they played good red zone defense. Talented, talented unit. I’ve got a lot of respect for their defensive coordinator…You gotta take the rankings with a little bit of a grain of salt because if you fall asleep on a team like this, they’ll come out and embarrass you in a hurry.
