ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions aren’t sounding the alarms over some of their recent offensive struggles. But they know the offensive line play has to improve for them to be able to do what they want.

When asked about the worst part of watching the loss to the Minnesota Vikings back, offensive coordinator John Morton pointed to the protection.

“The protection, that was the biggest thing. I mean, we draw up all these plays we want, it doesn’t matter. That was the biggest thing,” Morton said on Thursday. “Winning our one-on-one matchups, that was big. That set us back -- second-and-long, third-and-long. We had a lot of third-and-longs.

“But when we did things right, we did really well. That was the biggest thing. It just -- clogging the middle up, protection. You can’t do a lot of stuff w

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