Defensive breakdowns, offensive breakdowns, turnovers, and some bad playcalling. This was losing ugly to the max. Roll the ugliness, defense first. Look at King (red) and White (yellow) as ball is snapped, just before that screen play for the Lions TD:
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They are both in position to protect against a ballcarrier or catch in the flats, right? But no. King shoots up inside and gets blocked out, and White gets faked out by Stafford's initial move to his left, before dumping off the screen to his right. And White stumbles and falls. And Johnson (blue) takes the ball with a WIDE OPEN FIELD ahead of him for the TD. You just cannot leave lanes like this wide open.
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They are both in position to protect against a ballcarrier or catch in the flats, right? But no. King shoots up inside and gets blocked out, and White gets faked out by Stafford's initial move to his left, before dumping off the screen to his right. And White stumbles and falls. And Johnson (blue) takes the ball with a WIDE OPEN FIELD ahead of him for the TD. You just cannot leave lanes like this wide open.
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