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Too much experimentation led to down season for Detroit's Larry Warford

Published Jun. 3, 2015 2:27 p.m. ET

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Detroit Lions right guard Larry Warford had a tremendous rookie season in 2013, setting the stage for a strong sophomore campaign. Instead, his performance slumped in the early part of the 2014 season.

Warford thinks tinkering with his technique birthed his inconsistencies, according to Justin Rogers of MLive.com.

"Last offseason, my whole theme was, how am I going to get better, what am I going to change to improve?" Warford told MLive.com. "It got to a point where I was trying so many new things out that I lost my core values, my core technique."

It took half the season for Warford to regain his old form, according to MLive.com. And when he finally did, the guard suffered a knee injury that sidelined him for nearly a month.

Heading into his third NFL season, Warford has narrowed his focus in an attempt to avoid the struggles he experienced last year.

"I don't have to do all these other things," Warford told MLive.com about excess experimentation. "People don't expect me to do certain things, they expect consistency. It sounds silly, but everybody has their thing and mine is consistency."

(h/t MLive.com)

Photo Credit: Tim Fuller/USA TODAY Sports

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