FUNDAMENTALS, DISCIPLINE & DETAILS
With such a strong offensive opponent coming to town Thursday, Campbell knows he’s going to need a more consistent performance from his defense than he’s gotten the last couple weeks against the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers.
In the overtime win over New York Week 12 and the loss on Thanksgiving to Green Bay, Detroit’s defense has allowed 633 passing yards with seven touchdowns and just one interception by safety Thomas Harper vs. the Giants.
In that same two-game stretch, Detroit recorded just one sack and nine quarterback hits with six of those hits coming from edge rusher Aidan Hutchinson.
“Got to be a little bit better. And fundamentally, this is a little bit like what I told the defense, we just, man, details and discipline, and really fundamentally, we’ve got to get better,” Campbell said. “We’ve got to get better.
“It can’t just be you’re going to win off talent or things of that nature. It was really more about pointing out all the things that have nothing to do with talent, which really are the details, the discipline and the fundamentals. So, we’ve just got to be a little more on point there. We can, everybody’s got to do their job. And that’ll help, that’ll go a long way.”
Detroit’s been hit on some big plays in the passing game the last couple weeks and have to get back to better marrying their rush and cover defensively starting Thursday against a really good Cowboys passing attack.
