The Detroit Lions won’t let a loss to the Buffalo Bills or the team’s mounting injuries dampen their confidence.
In a heavyweight slugfest, the Bills came to Detroit’s Ford Field on Sunday and defeated the Lions 48-42. The Lions ended their 11-game winning streak that had allowed the most points all season.
Head coach Dan Campbell spoke passionately about the team’s condition during a local radio appearance on Tuesday.
“What happens is, you get used to eating filet mignon — and I’m talking about all of us — and everything is fine and life is great, but you forget that when you have nothing and eat (expletive) molded bread feeling,” Campbell said on 97.1 Ticket Costa and Janssen. “It’s good and it gives you everything you need. Sometimes you have to get punched in the mouth and remember what it was like before to really appreciate where you are and we’ll do that. We’ve we’ve “The tone was bad, we got kicked the other day and we lost some guys, you know, that’s what we needed.”
Led by Campbell’s brash personality and ultra-aggressive tactics, the Lions are on pace for the best record in the franchise’s 94-year history.
“We’re going to play the game any way we need to win. We still have a good offense. We have a lot of defensive players that I can go and chew them out right now. We’re going to put our best 11 out there. We’re going to be completely relaxed.” Coming down, we’re going to play with our special teams and if we have to win by one point the rest of the year, I don’t mind that, that’s what we’re going to do. I’d be happy with it,” Campbell said. “(If) we finish with 50 yards of total offense and win by one point, I guarantee you, you’ll see a smile on my face. If it was the other way around on defense and we gave up 700 yards and we won by one score, I can guarantee you you’re going to see the (expletive) smile, so we’re going to find a way and we’re going to get it done. “
Detroit’s biggest obstacle to having its best season ever and potentially reaching the NFL championship game for the first time since 1957 is injuries. There are currently 13 players out of their defensive lineup. Chief among the long list of players unable to play are Pro Bowl pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson and running back David Montgomery, who is tied for second in the NFL in rushing touchdowns over the past two seasons. Many players.
If the Lions still make it to big games despite not being healthy, they could get some reinforcements.
“I’m on track to get back to the Super Bowl,” Hutchinson said. On Taylor Lautner’s Podcast, extrusion. “So when I saw all the boys in the facility, I kept telling them, I gotta get there and I promise you, I’ll be back. My mom said, ‘But Aidan, if you don’t come back, if you can’t What should I do if I come back?” I thought at the time, there was no other way.
