Back in 2022, then Detroit Lions linebackers coach Kelvin Sheppard was asked about utilizing his linebackers in a QB spy role. If you don’t know, a QB spy is basically a defender who is asked to mirror to quarterback on a play in order to prevent them from scrambling for a big game.

At the time, Sheppard made it loud and clear he wasn’t a fan of the strategy.

“You show me tape where the spy stuff works,” Sheppard said. “What you do is you waste a defender when you operate like that, and you’re playing prevent defense in a sense. Show me where a spy has tackled Hurts, Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray in open space. So, to each his own. Whatever you believe in, but I’ve seen that get torched on the college level and the NFL level.”

Yet on Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens, the Lions ut

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