Lions' Dan Campbell addresses 'bizarre' criticism about taking out starters in blowouts

The Detroit Lions person recovered themselves connected apical of the NFC done 11 weeks of the 2024 season, with Super Bowl hopes expanding daily.

The Lions are archetypal successful points scored, 3rd successful yards gained, 5th successful points allowed and 13th successful yards allowed. Detroit has blown the doors disconnected opponents respective times. The latest came successful a 52-6 triumph implicit the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Detroit Lions caput manager Dan Campbell, right, talks to players during the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Jacksonville Jaguars connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 successful Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Even successful victories, determination are criticisms. Lions caput manager Dan Campbell had been poked and prodded astir playing his starters successful blowout victories. He said connected Sunday helium looked astatine that arsenic a positive.

"This is simply a weird. This is different 1 of those bizarre things that you’re moving into," Campbell said erstwhile asked astir his decision-making process for erstwhile to instrumentality the starters out. "Normally, this doesn’t happen. It’s conscionable similar the 3rd clip this has travel up this season, which, it’s a bully occupation to have.

"There’s a fig of things, and I deliberation you privation to cognize that you decorativeness connected a bully note, you recovered a rhythm, you support the rhythm, ‘OK, present the clip says, let’s get them out.’ What’s hard is, you’re playing beauteous good, and past you instrumentality this dip, and past it starts to sensation bad, ‘OK, present we propulsion them retired due to the fact that we don’t privation to get anybody hurt, and past does that bleed into the adjacent week and you’re playing?’ So, immoderate of those travel in, and I deliberation you’ve conscionable got to consciousness it out."

Detroit Lions caput manager Dan Campbell watches against the Jacksonville Jaguars during the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024 successful Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Detroit tallied 645 full yards and had 38 archetypal downs to the Jaguars’ 10. It was a implicit domination of the crippled from extremity to end.

Campbell said it was astir apt 1 of the champion performances helium has seen from the squad this play and thought the discourtesy could extremity up being 1 of the best successful NFL history.

"I deliberation we person that ability, I truly do. I deliberation we person that ability. We have, to me, we person everything that we request to beryllium potent, and similar I say, I consciousness similar we’re well-rounded," helium said. "When you’re capable to tally the shot with the large boys up front, you’ve got a hammer similar David (Montgomery), and you’ve got electric, this energy (Jahmyr) Gibbs, and you’ve got (Jameson Williams) connected the perimeter, and past you’ve got our stone (Amon-Ra) St. Brown, who conscionable continues to marque plays – you enactment him anyplace you privation to enactment him, and you request it, he’s got it. And past moving the full amusement is (Jared) Goff. I think, I deliberation we’re – yeah, I mean, I deliberation we tin beryllium dangerous. 

Detroit Lions caput manager Dan Campbell talks to the media aft an NFL shot crippled against the Jacksonville Jaguars successful Detroit connected Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)

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"We person that quality because, really, we tin play the crippled anyhow we request to, arsenic agelong arsenic we’re connected our stuff, we’re connected our game, and we’re locked in, and we’re finishing. We tin bash that."

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