Miami was without speedy wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle for the team periods Wednesday, which obviously makes Miami’s offense a lot less explosive, but it shouldn’t take away from just how dominant Detroit’s defense was.<\/p>\n
The Lions generated consistent pressure, produced takeaways, and generally made things very difficult for the Dolphins’ offense. There was a team red-zone period in the middle of practice where Miami’s offense took over 15 plays to find the end zone.<\/p>\n
This defense was decimated by injuries last season with nearly two dozen players landing on injured reserve before it was all said and done, including core players like Aidan Hutchinson<\/a>, Derrick Barnes<\/a>, Alim McNeill and countless others.<\/p>\n The players on that side of the football have always had the confidence that when healthy, they can play with any offense in this league and that’s certainly been the case throughout training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami was without speedy wide receivers Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle for the team periods Wednesday, which obviously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[1817,6291,1518,9165,1524,317,6016,146,113,2506,7,416,16688,3220,147,6017,415,31439,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-287314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-aidan-hutchinson","9":"tag-alex-anzalone","10":"tag-alim-mcneill","11":"tag-amik-robertson","12":"tag-brian-branch","13":"tag-d-j-reed","14":"tag-derrick-barnes","15":"tag-detroit","16":"tag-detroit-lions","17":"tag-detroitlions","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-homepage-centerpiece-package","20":"tag-jack-campbell","21":"tag-kerby-joseph","22":"tag-lions","23":"tag-marcus-davenport","24":"tag-news-twentyman","25":"tag-news-training-camp","26":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115026926397652601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287314","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=287314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}