Dan Campbell slams ‘bogus’ report that Lions reached out and complained to the NFL about cut blocks on Aidan Hutchinson
The Lions never reached out to the NFL about cut blocks on Aidan Hutchinson
Ahead of the Baltimore Ravens game in Week 3, articles circulated claiming ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Detroit Lions had reached out to the NFL and even sent plays to the league about Aidan Hutchinson taking cut blocks from opposing offensive linemen.
The problem is that there’s no Tweet or Blusky post for this, and it apparently happened during the Monday Night Football broadcast before the game started, but nobody has any video of it. There’s just no proof it happened, and without video, it’s hard to go back and look to see if this was taken out of context. This is the quote that’s flying around.
“The Detroit Lions have taken notice, and they’ve asked the league office to monitor the plays against Aidan Hutchinson,” Schefter said. “Not that that will protect him out there, but clearly, people have noticed some of these plays, and the Lions want the league office to notice as well.”
Lions head coach Dan Campbell was asked about it on Wednesday.
Dan Campbell strongly refutes that the Lions reached out to the NFL to complain about low blocks on Aidan Hutchinson
That’s bogus. That’s a bogus report,” Campbell said. “I don’t know where that came from. Nobody from here ever did that. That’s bull… The games played a certain way. That’s the way it goes. Man, it doesn’t matter whether we’re doing it or somebody else is doing it to our guys. We know that, and we play accordingly.”
So there you go. The Lions didn’t complain to the NFL about cut blocks, and it doesn’t make much sense for them to have. This isn’t one of those scenarios where a coach might be trying to protect someone in the building.
This is just pretty normal. You hate that it’s normal, but blocks like this happen every week, and as Campbell noted, the Lions are guilty of it at times, too. At the end of the day, this might just be some bad reporting on something that someone thought they heard Schefter say, and a lot of people didn’t bother to see if he said it at all or provide proof.
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