It’s not often after a win that a head coach praises a punter as being the key to victory, but not every head coach is Detroit’s Dan Campbell. And not every punter is Jack Fox of the Lions.
Fox had an outstanding game in the Lions’ Week 3 win over the Cardinals. Just ask Campbell, which happened in the coach’s Monday media session.
“Fox was – I don’t know how you play any better than Fox did as a punter,” Campbell enthused. “Five punts, first one, touchback, 68 yards and there’s a penalty on it so they start at the 10. Then he has a 61-yarder, they start at the two-yard line – great job by (CB Khalil Dorsey) Dorse getting down there.
Then he puts them on the 12, then he puts them on the nine, then he puts them on the seven, so their average start line was the eight-yard line after five punts – big time, man, Fox just continues to raise his level of play. And we had no penalties in the special teams unit, so I thought he and Dorsey really excelled on teams. That was really the story of the game.”
For the game, Fox punted five times with a net of 49.4 yards, with four of those punts being downed inside the Cardinals 20-yard line. Arizona return man Greg Dortch made two fair catches and did not attempt a return.