ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: After the 49ers defeat, what will happen to the Lions?
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell addressed the media.
Campbell expressed his pride in his football team’s progress this season and acknowledged that their one-game loss to the Super Bowl opened their eyes and should serve as inspiration to return stronger in 2024.
The following are the main inquiries from Campbell’s final press conference of the year:
What went wrong on Sunday during the second half?
Almost everything, in Campbell’s opinion.
The Lions led by 17 points at the half, but at one point in the second half, they gave up 27 straight points. According to Campbell, for a football game to end with a lead like that, around twelve things must go wrong in the final thirty minutes of play.
“This is what you hear about all the time – catastrophes,” he stated. “We did all 12 of those wrong in all three phases.”
All season long, Detroit has been so strong because its three units can compensate for each other’s shortcomings. However, on Sunday, during the second half, all three phases performed poorly as a unit. This season, that hasn’t happened much, and the Lions players are motivated to accomplish it against a formidable opponent like the 49ers.
After Brad Holmes, the general manager, and Campbell assembled this team’s nucleus, what comes next?
According to Campbell, the key is still to expand competition and acquire talent. They will never change that, but he also mentioned how they will keep adding like-minded people to their core.
“The whole point was to create a core that had certain standards,” he stated. “They need to be a certain manner, but they also need to be terrific players, which we have. We already own a specific identity and way of thinking, and we only need to add more like-minded components.”
No degree of talent worth bringing in, according to Campbell, is unrelated to what he and the locker room.
