When a young team doesn’t play complementary football you get what you saw last night. An offense that doesn’t sustain drives or score points puts the defense on the field too often. Which leads to fatigue and missed tackles particularly at this stage of pre-season. Let’s take a look:
– I’ll give credit to the staff for changing up the QB rotation but Christian Hackenberg was overwhelmed. He faced the standard defense a DC will throw against a young QB and couldn’t produce. DET stacked the box against the run and sat on all short routes and dared Hackenberg to do something.