The Lions took a step backward in 2025, and head coach Dan Campbell thinks moving into Tremendous Bowl rivalry in 2026 is likely to be extra about perspective than expertise.
Campbell stated the Lions will deliver in additional younger gamers this season, and he needs these gamers to be the sorts of fellows who spice issues up with their effort. He stated the sorts of gamers he envisions including to the crew may have the identical character because the gamers they added when he was increase the roster early in his tenure in Detroit.
“All people needs expertise, I’ll at all times need expertise, however it’s at all times good to have slightly little bit of saltiness to you over the expertise that lacks saltiness as a result of that’s what we had been in ’22, and part of ’23,” Campbell stated. “We had expertise, however we had some salty guys and we had been extremely aggressive. We had been keen to make it work, determine it out, so simply getting slightly little bit of that edge again. A few of that comes with youth. Now, with youth, you’re gonna have a number of the stuff that will get irritating, the psychological [mistakes], however we imagine we will get them there as a workers and with the remainder of the gamers now we have round them.”
The Lions went 9-8 final yr, which earlier than Campbell arrived was thought-about a great season in Detroit. Campbell has raised the usual to the place 9-8 was a disappointment. He needs his crew to be higher in 2026, and he thinks the crew can get higher with gamers who’re saltier.
