BREAKING NEWS: Head Coach Explain Lions As Legitimate Contenders

Head Coach Explain Lions As Legitimate Contenders

ALLEN PARK  The Detroit lion have lived up to lofty expectations, looking like a super bowl contender I feel like we can beat anybody in the league,” coach Dan Campbell said Monday. Detroit is 7-1 for the first time since 1956 despite its defense missing eight key players, including Aidan Hutchinson. The Lions have won six in a row for the first time since 1995.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The defending NFC North championlead the conference and have beaten division rivals Green bay  and Minnesota on the road. We’re in a good place right now,” Campbell said The Lions, though, desperately need an edge rusher or two after losing Hutchinson, Marcus Davenport and John  Cominsky  to injuries and Josh Paschal to an i

Campbell said it was hard to say how likely it was that Detroit general manager Brad Holmes would make a deal ahead of the NFL trade deadline on Tuesday. I don’t think it’s entirely up to us,” Campbell said. “I can tell you that we’re trying. Brad’s trying. We’ve looked at everything, we really have, made a ton of calls, and he’s been rolling on it. So, we’ll see, we still have a little bit of time here.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If Holmes decides the price for a defensive end is more than he wants to give up, Campbell shared the team’s plan.

“If something doesn’t get done, we’ll start poaching some of these other practice squads,” Campbell said. “See if we can find some guys that we really liked when they were coming out (of college) that have some ability, see if they can grow, and then we’ll continue to give our guys here on this roster a shot.”