“Something that I think I want to do better at, and I think we can control is just having fun out there,” Hutchinson said. “It’s a simple thing. Football in the NFL is a business, but you have to treat it like a fun game that you love in order for you to get the results.”
It seems like such a simple thing but it’s easy when adversity mounts to start pressing. Players try to do too much in search of the big play and don’t just focus on doing their job. That’s when things can go south rather quickly. We’ve seen some of that with Detroit’s defense over the last month.
“I feel like the defenses I’ve been on whenever we are out there having fun, not just doing your job and executing, but you are having fun, you are celebrating together, you’re jumping around. That energy is very infectious, and we just have to get back to that,” Hutchinson said. “I think if we’re doing that, having fun, celebrating, making big plays, like that’s going to be big for us.”