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Dan Campbell is 1 of those caput coaches who volition judge successful his squad nary substance what, but aft a crushing decision successful the Divisional Round to the Washington Commanders astatine location arsenic the No. 1 seed, adjacent the astir optimistic radical tin consciousness deflated.
But not Campbell, who reiterated his content that his Detroit Lions’ title model remains wide open.
"Yeah, I do," Campbell said erstwhile asked that championship-window question, via ESPN. "We speech astir that core. That halfway radical is inactive intact, and we’ve signed immoderate back, immoderate are up connected contracts, and that’ll beryllium ongoing. But, yeah, we perfectly do."
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"I deliberation the astir important happening is you privation to cognize you’ve got your culture, you’ve got your identity, and you’ve got players that acceptable into that, and we’ve got that."
A cleanable illustration was prima wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, who signed agelong word with the Lions this past offseason, texted Campbell astatine 4 a.m. aft the 45-31 nonaccomplishment to the Commanders connected Saturday night.
The nonaccomplishment was eating astatine him, but it showed Campbell that helium has bare players successful the building, particularly leaders similar St. Brown.
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"I cognize the close guys. They're our guys for a reason, and that's what volition ever springiness maine anticipation and fto maine cognize we're lone going to beryllium better.
"We're going to travel backmost stronger, we're going to larn from this, and it's conscionable much substance connected the fire, is what it is."
Campbell said each of this earlier reports surfaced that his violative coordinator, Ben Johnson, had been plucked by an NFC North rival to go their adjacent caput coach. The Chicago Bears are bringing successful Johnson to assistance crook things around, and helium evidently knows each astir the enactment aft the past 3 seasons successful his relation successful Detroit.
But this shouldn’t travel arsenic a daze to Campbell, who should hole for the nonaccomplishment of antiaircraft coordinator Aaron Glenn arsenic well. Glenn is going successful for his 2nd interrogation with the New York Jets connected Tuesday to perchance capable their caput manager vacancy arsenic well.
Campbell told ESPN that helium indispensable person a next-man-up mentality if helium were to suffer his coordinators, but winning close present doesn’t change.
"We’re not going to let that to happen," Campbell said regarding a imaginable mindset change. "Does it wounded to suffer those guys? Absolutely. They’re a portion of what we’ve been here. They’ve been present for 4 years, and they’re 1 of the large reasons wherefore we’ve been capable to get to wherever we’ve been."
Simply put, the Lions weren’t expected to beryllium reasoning astir the future, already losing their innovative violative coordinator and preparing for the offseason. With their quality to propulsion up points connected the scoreboard, they seemed astir destined to correspond the NFC successful Super Bowl LIX.
While the Lions person to spell backmost to the drafting board, their caput manager inactive believes they person the squad to get to the Super Bowl for the archetypal clip successful franchise history.
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