The Green Bay Packers fell behind 27-3 in the first half and lost 34-20 during the first meeting against the Detroit Lions, and a key contributor to that one-sided final result was the fact that Green Bay’s offensive line was bullied.
In the Week 4 game, Jordan Love was pressured on 48 percent of his dropbacks, and many of those pressures happened fairly quickly, with edge rushers Aidan Hutchinson and John Cominsky acting as a two-man wrecking crew. When a quarterback – an inexperienced one at that – is under quick and constant pressure, it doesn’t much matter what the play call is at that point–things probably aren’t going to end well.