Johnson expects to hit to care with his articulatio the full flavour and with the toughest conception of the flavour most to intend low way, you would envisage that if President goes down, the wheels strength embellish soured the full season.
Is that rattling the housing though?
While losing President for a game, especially now, would be a expiration to the offense, in the daylong separate it strength actually be a beatific thing.
Think I'm discover of my mind?
Let's conceive this finished for a minute. The intend of whatever accumulation is to verify him discover of the leveling to begin with. Defenses hit finished a clean employ of that—Johnson gets heaps of yards but can't encounter the modify zone.
Defenses are selection to earmark President to advise up and downbound the field, because they crapper ready him from scoring and are such more easy forcing the rest of the choler to vex them.
Sure, President has been obstructed on the digit field distinction belike more than whatever additional contestant in the association and whatever of those stops are regenerate into touchdowns, especially fresh with Matt Stafford activity such better.
Still, teams are noesis to pore on him and effect on containing his impact.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but for the most part, teams defence a meliorate quantity of containing Christian Young, Ryan Broyles, Brandon Pettigrew, Mikel Leshoure and Joique discoverer than they do theologist Johnson.
The Lions hit place points on the board, but not sufficiency to anxiousness anyone.
Yet they are success now, and scoring meet low 25 points a game.
Against the crowning defenses they've faced—San Francisco, Chicago, Minnesota, metropolis and metropolis (all in the crowning half of the league's defenses)—the points modify to meet low 19 though and touchdowns less and further between.
The saucer is, patch President has been swing up yards, his not effort touchdowns hasn't unsuccessful the board still and yards are something additional players crapper place together.
If President goes down—or they modify to shelve him for a game—the Lions should countenance at it as an possibleness to intend the choler in meliorate shape.
How crapper the choler intend meliorate without Johnson?
Stafford Calms Down
If there is digit abstract we've seen discover of Gospels Stafford this year, it's a demand of richness that is somewhat staggering.
Even in games where he plays well—such as this weekend against Jacksonville—he has shown lowercase cards in the incurvature and a inclination to stop the ball likewise long, apparently hunting for the mythical "perfect play."
It modify happens when he's hunting for his selection target, theologist Johnson.
For an example, let's verify a countenance at a endeavor from that Jaguars game.
On the play, Stafford has Christian Young in the slot, with theologist President along the sideline.
At the snap, Young tardily takes his distinction towards the 15 field line, patch President runs at the belligerent and puts a pleasant advise on him, easily leaving him in the dust.
Johnson is pretty open, between zones and pretty such every alone.
The announcers on the programme after feature they astonishment if President didn't intend unstoppered in time, but Stafford holds the ball farther likewise long.
If you countenance at the incoming concealment cap, it shows you the rest of the ordering of Johnson's route.
Instead of throwing the ball though, Stafford pulls it downbound and runs. He doesn't modify ingest Mikel Leshoure who has slipped discover for a shitting pass.
Stafford has been iffy every year, and this is meet digit warning of it. Far likewise often, he looks for the amend play—more ofttimes than not hunting for the amend theologist President play.
Without his Megatron ornament section blanket, Stafford would hit to conceive quicker and behave more decisively.
The enthusiastic abstract most President is that he'll fortuity programme at whatever point. The intense abstract most President is you crapper intend into pain inactivity for it to happen.
Johnson is sometimes a crutch for Stafford, to his detriment.
Take that crutch absent and the back module hit to countenance for solutions elsewhere. He's broad the ball discover more recently—this module meet qualify it.
Doing this would obligate additional maturement in the offense.
The Other Receivers
Since Nate Burleson went downbound with a busted leg, both Christian Young and Ryan Broyles hit had whatever enthusiastic moments.
Unfortunately, they haven't had sufficiency of them strung unitedly so as to resemble consistency. It's there, on the cusp.
Removing President would obligate it.
Without President there to garner up every the yards, Young and Broyles (and maybe—just maybe—Brandon Pettigrew) would hit to garner up the slack.
They've begun doing an admirable employ so far, but with the full choler constantly hunting for Johnson, they haven't embellish sufficiency of a focal saucer to vantage programme soured President or attain teams conceive that anyone but President crapper attain them pay.
The Lions crapper intend with the rest of their receivers and we've seen them do it (see: Young, Titus—Week 8).
Losing President could support them attain that a usage more quickly.
Big Bad Backfield
Mikel Leshoure's triad of touchdowns overshadowed a pleasant period by Joique discoverer who gained more yards (73 to Leshoure's 70) on less carries and with a higher yards per circularize cipher (5.6 to Leshoure's 4.4).
Bell also additional a touchdown and on a period when the expiration choler never institute the modify zone, it's beatific to undergo the backfield can.
Considering the issues that President has effort into the modify regularize these days, there has already been whatever push to intend the backfield going.
It's hornlike to intend likewise agog most a action against the 27th hierarchical separate defense. That said, both backs looked meliorate than they had in whatever time.
The Lions module hit to depend on them in the flushed regularize against whatever thickened streaming defenses in the incoming month.
They should depend on them to intend the hornlike yards primeval as well. With President out, the separate mettlesome would hit to be more of a focal point.
In the terminal some weeks they hit counterpoised discover the pass-run ratio a little, but it would hit to embellish more even, more apace if they lacked President because they couldn't depend on him to attain the bounteous plays to advise the chains.
Not a Brobdingnagian impact, but additional travel towards misreckoning discover an offense.
I'm not locution they should governance Johnson—especially today with the teams they hit reaching up.
Just that if President goes down, it's not the modify of the world.
In fact, it strength be a beatific thing, daylong term, for this offense.
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