Hutch rule: Aidan Hutchinson has been so dominant for most of Lions training camp that head coach Dan Campbell sometimes has to adopt the Hutch rule at practice. The Hutch rule is when Hutchinson beats his man and likely has a sack on a play but they don’t blow the whistle and continue the rep so the offense can get their work in during team periods.
“If you can’t block Hutch and he’s going to blow every practice up, then that’s not good either,” Campbell said Wednesday.
Situational football: I led with the Hutchinson observation because it factored into one of the big situational periods of the day. The offense was given the ball down 24-14 with 3:41 on the clock in the fourth quarter at their own 31-yard line. The offense was able to navigate down the field and score with a little over a minute to go but Hutchinson had a third-down sack that the offense was allowed to play through that would have made a fourth and long situation very hard to get. Safety Kerby Joseph also likely had a sack on a blitz and Campbell let the offense continue through.
Amon-Ra St. Brown got a touchdown for the offense with a little over a minute on the clock. The second part of the drill was simulating a three-and-out by the defense and the offense getting the ball back at their own 20-yard line with 56 seconds left, down three, with no timeouts. Hutchinson had a deflected pass on first down and veteran defensive back Avonte Maddox ended up winning the drill for the defense when a ball bounced off wide receiver Jameson Williams and into Maddox’s hands for the interception.
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