You may have noticed from our organized team activities and minicamp observations that the Detroit Lions are spending a large portion of each practice devoted to critical situations in football. They’ve practiced two-minute drills, one-minute drills, end-of-half drives, fourth-down plays, and even a few desperate situations like driving 81 yards in less than 40 seconds or driving down two scores with two minutes left.
This is by design. Lions head coach Dan Campbell felt this was something Detroit struggled with during the season, in part because they practiced these kinds of situations a little too late in the process of last year’s offseason program.