Glenn, in the days before his return to his former Ford Field home from 2021-24 to play the Lions, said of Smith’s early approach: “I think the thing he’s doing a good job of is ‘I’m going to see it, if it’s there, I’m going to take it, if it’s not there, I can get it down to one of these skill players and then get explosive plays by catch-and-run opportunities.’ “<\/p>\n
Detroit could be an opportunity to get that downfield game going. The Lions have yielded 6 passing touchdowns in the first two games, tied for second-most in the league, 6 passes of 25-plus yards, also tied for second, and 33 passing first downs, most in the league.<\/p>\n
But as Smith and Glenn know, they also have edge Aidan Hutchinson to apply the pressure and separate Smith from the football if possible and former Jets ballhawk and top-tackling corner D.J. Reed among the weapons in their arsenal. Smith knows another Sunday challenge is in store for the Green & White offense.<\/p>\n
He also trusts his defense to keep the Lions’ explosive offense under as much control as possible. And he trusts in his offense to continue its upward trajectory.<\/p>\n
“I think we have great potential, but it’s all about the work we put in,” Smith said. “It’s Week 3 now. We’re developing chemistry with one another. We’ve gone through training camp, preseason games with one another, and now two games into the season. I believe in the potential of this team and this offense because of the type of guys we have and the work we put in. I believe we have the pieces here. It just have to continue to blossom.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenn, in the days before his return to his former Ford Field home from 2021-24 to play the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7640,85,9,11,10,12,12130],"class_list":["post-355065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-geno-smith","tag-latest-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-randy-lange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}