The Detroit Lions practiced on Wednesday in Allen Park, before then departing to Atlanta for Friday night’s preseason game with the Falcons.
The Lions offense has struggled most of training camp against the Detroit defense, and today was no exceptions.
Despite the early struggles, head coach Dan Campbell believes his offense is very close to turning the corner.
“I do believe our defense is – we’re playing pretty good right now, we’re practicing well, we’re running pretty efficient. So I think they’re a handful right now and then offensively, certainly we want to be clicking a little bit better, but I also know we’re like this far away.” said Campbell.
“And it’s just that’s how it works with offense, especially early, it’s one guy here, one guy here, one guy here and it’s just the little minute details. They’re all correctable, that’s what’s awesome. So, we’re growing, we’re getting better, I love the fact that we’re being challenged on both sides, we really are. I feel like we’re challenging each other.”
Campbell has not decided how many of his starters, if any, will play in Friday’s game, but he did say that he is considering playing the teams first two draft picks, DL Tyleik Williams and OL Tate Ratledge.
“Yeah, I’m thinking about that. I would like to get them going this game, but I’m not 100 percent set on that yet.” said Campbell.