Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell talked Wednesday morning about the defense’s progression through the first couple weeks of training camp.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I mean, it’s a good barometer to try to figure out exactly where you’re at and I think you take it for what it is,” Campbell said of the defense being a little ahead of the offense. “I do believe our defense is, we’re playing pretty good right now, we’re practicing well, we’re running pretty efficient, (Kelvin Sheppard) Shep’s doing a nice job over there.<\/p>\n
“We’re pretty versatile in coverage and pressure, we’ve got the front to handle the run right now and then we’re pretty sticky on the back end, that’s a good combination. We can crush the pocket. That’s versus our offense. I do see that.”<\/p>\n
Wednesday was another banner day for the defense, winning multiple team periods and coming up with a takeaway. The defense is certainly not a finished product and there’s plenty to improve upon, but it’s been tangible how much better they’ve looked from this time last year to start camp, especially in the secondary. This might be the best secondary the Lions have assembled in Campbell and GM Brad Holmes’ tenure in Detroit and it’s showing every day in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell talked Wednesday morning about the defense’s progression through the first couple weeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[6016,146,113,2506,2878,7,416,44346,147,415,31439,6,31910],"class_list":{"0":"post-267053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-derrick-barnes","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-dominic-lovett","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","15":"tag-jamarco-jones","16":"tag-lions","17":"tag-news-twentyman","18":"tag-news-training-camp","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-pat-oconnor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114983334513867625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}