Dan Campbell, Lions and Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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Lions head coach Dan Campbell's wife, Holly Campbell, shows off a unique black and white outfit against the Buccaneers in Week 7.
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell praised his team's defense against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football. He also discussed the bye week and the progress of the team.
"That’s more grasping for straws, I shouldn’t have done that. (If) you were totally like, ‘What the hell is he doing?’ You’d be correct.”
Dan Campbell's tenure as head coach of the Lions got off to an inauspicious start in 2021 as he failed to win any of his first 11 contests. A year later his side was 1-6 and there was serious chatter about his job security. Since then he's won 40 of his last 51 regular-season games, made the playoffs twice and advanced to an NFC championship game.
Head coach Dan Campbell not surprised that Lions DC Kelvin Sheppard is doing a great job, "This is what I expected"
The defensive lineman was supposed to play limited snaps in his return but ended up with nearly double the expected workload.
Jahmyr Gibbs was productive for the Lions in the first six weeks of the 2025 season, but none of those games featured the kind of dominant performance that has lifted Gibbs to the top of the list of running backs in the league.
The Lions got a big win over the Buccaneers on MNF in Week 7 and Detroit should improve when multiple injured defensive starters return.