Dan Campbell alludes to a reliability problem with best defensive players
Sunday was really not a good time for the Detroit Lions defense. They got worked over at an expert level with some of the most ordinary concepts out there. The Seahawks pretty much just did the same thing over and over again and the Lions couldn't stop it. After hearing from Lions Head Coach Dan […]
Sunday was really not a good time for the Detroit Lions defense. They got worked over at an expert level with some of the most ordinary concepts out there. The Seahawks pretty much just did the same thing over and over again and the Lions couldn't stop it.
After hearing from Lions Head Coach Dan Campbell on Monday, there might be some more problems brewing with the Lions defense right now. And it might be with the best players on that side of the ball.
"The other thing I think just defensively is man we need our most reliable players to be reliable." Campbell said. When asked to elaborate on that statement he said this: "I just expect more. I expect more reliability out of those guys. They know who they are and you know we just, we hold them to high standards."
Between that comment and the humble pie comment from Sunday night, you have to wonder if the Lions were beginning to buy into their own hype after Week 1 and a summers worth of hype. It's easy to let that happen to you. It's even easier to believe that you've proved your good enough that should be all you need going forward.
Maybe this is something that this Lions team needed. Sometimes a beating is all a team needs to remind themselves that they still have to work for it and it's not going to be handed to them. Maybe this is the kind of thing that puts a chip on their shoulders.
I don't think this a thing where Dan Campbell is losing his team. That just couldn't be farther from the truth. I think it's a wake up call for everyone in the building. This can either haunt you, or you can use to go out and get things done. We'll see soon enough which side of the coin it will be for the Lions.
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