OC: Lions not 'in panic mode' after Week 1 dud

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- Leaving Lambeau Field aft an 0-1 commencement Sunday, wasn't a pleasurable acquisition for caller Detroit Lions violative coordinator John Morton.

But adjacent aft losing the opener astatine Green Bay 27-13, Morton said "nobody's successful panic mode" wrong the Lions' building.

Entering the Week 2 location contention against the Chicago Bears, Detroit volition effort to debar going 0-2 for the archetypal clip since 2021, successful Dan Campbell's archetypal play arsenic the Lions' caput coach.

However, Bears caput manager Ben Johnson -- who spent the erstwhile 3 seasons arsenic Detroit's violative coordinator -- volition beryllium lasting successful the mode during his much-anticipated instrumentality to Ford Field connected Sept. 13.

"The bottommost enactment is, this is astir execution and the details of everything and past taking a small spot less, truthful guys are playing a small spot faster, truthful everybody knows precisely what to do," Morton said. "But I'm encouraged, determination were immoderate encouraging things successful the game, obviously, and past we determination on.

"That's what we've done, large cognition by the guys, 'How bash we hole this?' Because we're successful the fix-it concern arsenic coaches."

Under Johnson, Detroit led the NFL with 33.2 points per crippled successful 2024 -- the 2nd clip successful squad past the Lions person led the league successful scoring.

Against the Packers successful Week 1, Detroit astir went a afloat crippled without scoring a touchdown until 0:55 remaining successful 4th fourth with a 13-yard item drawback by rookie wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa. The past clip the Lions failed to people a touchdown successful the archetypal 3 quarters was Week 7, 2023 versus Baltimore, but Morton sees the mistakes arsenic being correctable.

"Look, we're moving plays that these guys person done. Now, there's immoderate caller guys successful there, but the bottommost enactment is you've got to spell execute and we didn't bash that each azygous play. We conscionable didn't," Morton said.

Some of the areas of accent were fixing connection betwixt the violative line, improving successful the reddish portion and establishing the tally crippled better.

Detroit averaged 2.1 yards per unreserved against the Packers portion averaging conscionable 3.8 yards per play, which was the 2nd fewest successful immoderate crippled nether Campbell.

Lions seasoned violative tackle Taylor Decker missed a mates of practices this week with a enarthrosis injury, but Morton says they're "totally expecting Decker to play" versus Chicago.

"The missed assignments looked truly bad, but determination wasn't similar 1 guy's getting his ass kicked the full game," Decker said of the violative line. "It was conscionable a batch of things that we tin power and tin cleanable up."

Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown besides isn't amazed by the extracurricular absorption of fans and media members being captious of their lackluster violative output pursuing the Week 1 loss, but he's assured they tin get connected track.

"We've got a large radical of guys successful our locker room, guys that person been present erstwhile we were losing for a portion successful those archetypal 2 years and were capable to crook things around," St. Brown said. "So, a batch of america cognize what it feels to beryllium connected the different broadside of things truthful we're resilient, guys that volition ne'er springiness up and we person a clump of bully players connected our roster. We're going to fig retired a mode to marque things shake."