ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Leaving Lambeau Subject after an 0-1 begin Sunday, wasn’t a pleasurable expertise for brand spanking new Detroit Lions offensive coordinator John Morton.
However even after dropping the opener at Inexperienced Bay 27-13, Morton stated “no person’s in panic mode” contained in the Lions’ constructing.
Getting into the Week 2 dwelling contest towards the Chicago Bears, Detroit will attempt to keep away from going 0-2 for the primary time since 2021, in Dan Campbell’s first season because the Lions’ head coach.
Nonetheless, Bears head coach Ben Johnson — who spent the earlier three seasons as Detroit’s offensive coordinator — can be standing in the best way throughout his much-anticipated return to Ford Subject on Sept. 13.
“The underside line is, that is about execution and the small print of all the pieces after which taking slightly bit much less, so guys are taking part in slightly bit sooner, so everyone is aware of precisely what to do,” Morton stated. “However I am inspired, there have been some encouraging issues within the sport, clearly, after which we transfer on.
“That is what we have accomplished, nice angle by the fellows, ‘How will we repair this?’ As a result of we’re within the fix-it enterprise as coaches.”
Underneath Johnson, Detroit led the NFL with 33.2 factors per sport in 2024 — the second time in crew historical past the Lions have led the league in scoring.
Towards the Packers in Week 1, Detroit practically went a full sport with out scoring a landing till 0:55 remaining in fourth quarter with a 13-yard spotlight catch by rookie broad receiver Isaac TeSlaa. The final time the Lions failed to attain a landing within the first three quarters was Week 7, 2023 versus Baltimore, however Morton sees the errors as being correctable.
“Look, we’re working performs that these guys have accomplished. Now, there’s some new guys in there, however the backside line is you have to go execute and we did not do that each single play. We simply did not,” Morton stated.
A number of the areas of emphasis had been fixing communication between the offensive line, enhancing within the purple zone and establishing the run sport higher.
Detroit averaged 2.1 yards per rush towards the Packers whereas averaging simply 3.8 yards per play, which was the second fewest in any sport below Campbell.
Lions veteran offensive deal with Taylor Decker missed a few practices this week with a shoulder damage, however Morton says they’re “completely anticipating Decker to play” versus Chicago.
“The missed assignments seemed actually unhealthy, however there wasn’t like one man’s getting his ass kicked the entire sport,” Decker stated of the offensive line. “It was simply lots of issues that we will management and might clear up.”
Lions broad receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown additionally is not shocked by the skin response of followers and media members being important of their lackluster offensive output following the Week 1 loss, however he is assured they’ll get on observe.
“We have got an awesome group of fellows in our locker room, guys which have been right here once we had been dropping for some time in these first two years and had been in a position to flip issues round,” St. Brown stated. “So, lots of us know what it feels to be on the opposite facet of issues so we’re resilient, guys that may by no means hand over and we have now a bunch of excellent gamers on our roster. We will determine a approach to make issues shake.”