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Friday, November 15, 2019

NOTEBOOK: Flowers stepping up his game




Thursday, Nov 14, 2019 05:27 PM
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Tim Twentyman
SENIOR WRITER

Trey Flowers has been on a roll the last month, playing the kind of football the Lions expected from him when they signed him to a big free-agent deal this offseason.

He’s the only defensive end in the NFL actively on a three-game sack streak. He’s recorded eight quarterback hurries over his last three games and notched 14 tackles, seven quarterback hits and five tackles for loss over that span.

“I feel as though I’m taking better advantage of my opportunities,” Flowers said this week. “Whether it’s watching more film and just kind of doing the extra things to being more in tune with the offensive linemen and things like that.”

Flowers missed all of training camp rehabbing a shoulder injury. He didn’t play in the preseason and was admittedly trying to knock some of the rust off when the regular season began.

“Anytime you can practice with repetition and get a source of confidence going into each week it always helps you as a player,” he said. “I feel as though anytime you start off the season shaking the rust off, you just want to continue to get better week in and week out and I think I’m continuing to work and get better each week.”

That’s certainly shown itself on the stat sheet over the last month or so.

Since 2017, only Flowers and Khalil Mack have recorded at least 155 tackles, 19.0 sacks and seven forced fumbles. Flowers has been back to being that kind of productive player.

He’ll have his work cut out for him this week against Dallas trying to keep his sack streak intact, however. The Cowboys have allowed 11 sacks all season, tops in the NFL.

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