{"id":89437,"date":"2022-10-07T03:08:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T03:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aidan-hutchinson-says-his-childhood-new-england-patriots-fandom-no-good-ahead-of-matchup\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T03:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T03:08:43","slug":"aidan-hutchinson-says-his-childhood-new-england-patriots-fandom-no-good-ahead-of-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aidan-hutchinson-says-his-childhood-new-england-patriots-fandom-no-good-ahead-of-matchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Hutchinson says his childhood New England Patriots fandom &#8216;no good&#8217; ahead of matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-10-07T00:29:12Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">8:29 PM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Eric Woodyard<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>ALLEN PARK, MI.  &#8212; No.  2 overall pick Aidan Hutchinson won&#8217;t be facing fellow Michigan Wolverines alum Tom Brady anytime soon, as the Detroit Lions aren&#8217;t scheduled to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/1006\/r1071636_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2022\/0919\/r1064021_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But as the Lions (1-3) head to Brady&#8217;s old headquarters in Foxborough to face the New England Patriots (1-3) on Sunday, the Detroit rookie says he welcomes a Michigan versus Michigan clash someday.<\/p>\n<p>He grew up idolizing Brady during his time with the Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just liked Tom Brady. Every kid loves Tom Brady,&#8221; Hutchinson said following Thursday&#8217;s practice.  &#8220;Hopefully, one of these days I&#8217;ll get the chance to hit Tom, but we&#8217;ll see. I would say that Patriots fandom that you referenced is no good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson anticipates the experience of playing at New England being &#8220;fun,&#8221; as Detroit is looking to clean up its defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions are the only team since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to lead the NFL in points per game (35.0) and rank last in points per game allowed (35.3) through the first four weeks of a season, according to Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson is confident that the defense can turn it around.  The Lions coaching staff are considering personnel changes, including a possible switch from a three-point stance to a two-point stance after Hutchinson had success in college with the same switch at Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every week, he&#8217;s getting a little bit better,&#8221; Lions head coach Dan Campbell said of Hutchinson.  &#8220;I think he&#8217;s one of the players that I think we need to look long and hard about, &#8216;Do we need to move him in some different spots? Do we need to see if we can give him an opportunity to have more success?&#8217;  But look, I think he did a lot of good things in the run game [versus the Seattle Seahawks]and look, I think he&#8217;s kind of where our defense is right now, where we&#8217;ve just got to improve, I mean get a little bit better, and I think we can all help each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, who dressed up as Brady for Halloween as a child, wasn&#8217;t alive for Brady&#8217;s senior season at Michigan in 1999, but this wasn&#8217;t the first time he&#8217;s stated that Brady would be on his hit list of who he&#8217;d like to sack most in the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growing up, seeing Tom play there in those cold-ass games, so hopefully it gets a little cold,&#8221; Hutchinson said of playing at Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8:29 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN ALLEN PARK, MI. &#8212; No. 2 overall pick Aidan Hutchinson won&#8217;t be facing fellow Michigan Wolverines alum Tom Brady anytime soon, as the Detroit Lions aren&#8217;t scheduled to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this season. 1 Related But as the Lions (1-3) head to Brady&#8217;s old headquarters in Foxborough to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aidan-hutchinson-says-his-childhood-new-england-patriots-fandom-no-good-ahead-of-matchup\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aidan Hutchinson says his childhood New England Patriots fandom &#8216;no good&#8217; ahead of matchup<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[21833,392,47,7029,1823,7312,423,4967,9998],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44203,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/detroit-lions-aidan-hutchinson-a-menace-in-backfield-in-debut\/","url_meta":{"origin":89437,"position":0},"title":"Detroit Lions&#8217; Aidan Hutchinson a menace in backfield in debut","date":"August 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Two plays. 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