By A to Z Sports,Mike Payton

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After the Detroit Lions’ loss to the Green Bay Packers in Week 1, it was clear that the Lions’ offensive line struggled mightily in that game. There were a ton of missed assignments and communication errors, and a lot of it stemmed from the fact that the younger players on the line simply couldn’t hear the calls because Lambeau Field was too loud.On Sunday, the Lions flat-out beat the heck out of the Chicago Bears, and the offensive line looked significantly better. But there is a big difference between playing on the road and playing at home. You don’t have giant video boards requesting that the crowd be quiet when you’re on offense on another team’s field. So what do the Lions plan to do to be ready for a crazy crowd in Baltimore on Monday night?

The Lions plan to avoid communication issues against the Ravens

For starters, there’s a simple plan here that a lot of teams utilize. Make it annoyingly loud at your practice facility. “We bring out 38 speakers,” Lions head coach Dan Campbell said on 97.1 The Ticket on Wednesday morning. “And we park them about 10 feet behind us, and then on the sides and way in the back, and so you can’t hear, and so you force that environment anyway…” Beyond that, the plan is to relentlessly drill. Campbell said that if there is any inkling that there are communication issues, they’re going to start the drill over again and just keep doing that until they get it right. On top of that, there was a lot of talk about putting too much on the plate of the younger guys in Week 1. Campbell also noted that Lions coaches are thinking a lot about that, too. “…We’ll make sure that we’re good, you know, and it’s on us as coaches to make sure that this plan, we have enough ammo, but yet we don’t overload our guys or put too much on their plate to where we’re actually creating a problem as coaches.” At the end of the day, it’s a pretty solid plan. Make it loud, make sure you’re not blowing past the issues in practice, and keep things basic. It’s a big difference from the offensive line that you’re used to, but even those guys took some time to grow together. It’s Week 3. But at the end of the year, you hope that the guys on the line can just read each other to the point where verbal communication is secondary, because these guys just know what needs to be done and what the other guy is going to do. That takes time, though.