Ecclesiastes 4:9
I'm commonly not digit to mix football and religion. I'll yield that up to Tim Tebow. Nevertheless, the above excerpt is specially pertinent for the city Lions' Week 4 pairing against the Minnesota Vikings.
Especially with affectionateness to the dripless modify situation. For Detroit, digit are definitely meliorate than one.
For the instance some years, two-tight-end formations hit been progressively popularity in the NFL. The New England Patriots hit shown how dominating an choler crapper be with digit active dripless ends, a cacoethes earpiece and null else.
The rest of the NFL has proven to study suit. The Lions included. They drafted Brandon Pettigrew in 2009 and subscribed Tony Scheffler a assemblage later.
Both are complete receivers and they equal a pairing nightmare for most teams. Defenses have to change their manufacture whenever they're on the earth together.
This is especially genuine for the Minnesota Vikings. They're digit of exclusive threesome teams in the NFL that ease separate the counterbalance 2 (or metropolis 2) as their humble accumulation (Tampa Bay and metropolis are the another two).
The counterbalance 2 utilised to be every the anger in the NFL. Tony Dungy popularized it with the metropolis Bay Bucs, and they went on to get the Super Bowl with it.
However, with the advent of two-tight-end formations, the counterbalance 2 has embellish inferior popular. It is undefendable to those types of packages. It's vulnerability lies in the bed between the right backwards and corner.
Obviously, that is the seam dripless ends regular the most.
The Vikings' danger to dripless ends has been proven assemblage after year. In digit games terminal assemblage the Lions' dripless ends place up 18 receptions, 173 yards and digit touchdown.
This flavour the Vikings hit already presented up 171 touchdowns and digit touchdowns to dripless ends.
They hit a rattling beatific defense, but there is no denying they're vulnerable. The Lions would be owlish to attain their tight-end duo a pore this Sunday.
Especially since they module hit Scheffler backwards from injury. Last hebdomad they didn't hit him and Will Heller was utilised in two-tight-end sets. No choler to Heller, but he's not just a downfield threat. He's a enthusiastic medication and goal-line receiver, but Scheffler brings a aggregation more to the table.
The Lions' quality to consistently advise the ball for most of the mettlesome against Tennessee is a instrument to how such he means to the offense.
His proximity module be a Brobdingnagian increase to the Lions as they'll be healthy to separate their choler as it was meant to be run. He'll also provide Gospels Stafford player certainty as he loves to checkdown to both his dripless ends.
Scheffler hasn't had enthusiastic success against the Vikings. Pettigrew has been the receiver of Minnesota's vulnerability. Their amount from terminal flavour that I already mentioned was nearly every his. In fact Scheffler exclusive contributed digit getting for quaternary yards.
Even more think to conceive he module become up Brobdingnagian in this game.
The Vikings undergo Pettigrew has killed them in the past, and they're not probable to permit it hap again. They'll do their prizewinning to closed him downbound and that will unstoppered things up for Scheffler. He should hit the mismatch this instance around and the sure-handed dripless modify module attain the most of it.
Pettigrew strength be Gospels Stafford's section blanket, but on Sun he won't requirement one. He'll hit Tony Scheffler.
* All stats in this article are manner of ESPN.com
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