It’s been a very long time since we’ve been able to talk about the Detroit Lions’ offense in a historical sense that wasn’t a historically negative sense, but these are not the same old Lions. A revamped run game that has every defense on edge, in which Detroit is successfully deploying just about every run scheme known to man, sets the tone for quarterback Jared Goff — who, all of a sudden, is pretty fierce when using play-action.
Not that you need a great run game to successfully use play-action — there are far too many examples to the contrary to bend to that old canard on a no-matter-what basis — but the Lions’ case, it’s working like a charm.
