Peter King FMIA—Jerry Jacobs & Aidan Hutchinson

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Defensive Player of the Week Acknowledgment:

Jerry Jacobs, cornerback, Detroit. The undrafted free agent from Arkansas was big in the Lions’ 34-20 win Thursday night, picking off Jordan Love twice. He stopped a second-quarter drive with Love trying to go deep to Christian Watson . Then, in the fourth quarter, he picked off Love at the Lions’ four-yard line, ending the Pack’s last real chance with four minutes to play.

Numbers Game

If you think you’re seeing the emergence of a great edge player in the NFL in Aidan Hutchinson, you are. Comparing Hutchinson’s game-influencing plays over the past six games to NFL royalty Micah Parsons, Myles Garrett and T.J. Watt over each player’s last six games, per NextGen Stats:

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In those six games:
Sacks: Garrett 8, Watt 7.5, Hutchinson 6, Parsons 4.5.
Interceptions: Hutchinson 1, Parsons 0, Garrett 0, Watt 0.
Forced fumbles: Watt 2, Hutchinson 1, Parsons 1, Garrett 1.
Recovered fumbles: Parsons 2, Watt 2, Hutchinson 1, Garrett 0
Batted passes: Hutchinson 4, Watt 2, Parsons 1, Garrett 0

Unfortunately, we hardly knew ye:

Goat of the Week

Matt Eberflus, head coach, Chicago. Denver 28, Chicago 28, fourth-and-one for Chicago in field-goal range; Cairo Santos would have been sent out for a 35-yarder. Bears burn a timeout trying to get the Broncos to jump offside. Then Eberflus decides to go for it and bypass the 35-yard field-goal try. Bears get stopped. Turn it over on downs. Broncos score the winning field goal. Win the game. For the Bears to lose a game they led 28-7 is bad. Eberflus’ strategy: worse.

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Hutchinson Is the kind of star player the Lions have lacked for years and years along the DL. We will be thanking the Jags for many years to come.

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The Jags taking Trayvon Walker over Hutch is a reminder of what can go wrong when you overthink your decision. Walker’s physical gifts are off the charts. The game tape, however, unmistakably showed Hutch as the best DE prospect to enter the draft since Nick Bosa. I thought the Lions had built up depth so that they could rotate Hutch to keep him fresh on every snap. They don’t need to do that with him. If you put him out there for 65 of 70 defensive snaps, he will go balls to the walls on every one of them. His pass rushing gets better the more you have him out there because the OTs get worn out from blocking him. That’s the exact opposite of what is supposed to happen.

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#2 is our lucky slot. Calvin, Suh, Hutch

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I actually didn’t hate the call to go for it (for Eberflus and the Bears). What I absolutely hated was taking the ball out of Fields his hands to run it straight ahead with Herbert. First of all they absolutely should have put the game in the QB’s hands - go win it or lose it for us, franchise QB - but if they really wanted to run power, at least get Johnson or Foreman in there.

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