{"id":221388,"date":"2025-10-17T23:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221388\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:40:13","slug":"jack-campbell-on-nfls-punch-out-crackdown-im-going-to-keep-punching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221388\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Campbell on NFL&#8217;s punch-out crackdown: I&#8217;m going to keep punching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions linebacker Jack Campbell said he will not change the way he plays.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nfl-sent-a-memo-warning-defenders-about-punch-out-plays-using-jack-campbell-as-an-example\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NFL highlighted Campbell<\/a> in a memo it sent to teams about punch-outs, warning defenders to avoid punching the ball carrier when trying to punch the ball out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how many people have played in an NFL game, but when you\u2019re going full speed and you\u2019re trying to get the ball out, punch-outs are hard to come by. So, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/971theticket\/sports\/detroit-lions\/detroit-lions-jack-campbell-brushes-off-warning-from-nfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I don\u2019t really care<\/a>,\u201d Campbell said Friday, via Will Burchfield of 97.1 The Ticket. \u201cI\u2019m going to keep punching, and if I miss it, \u2018f\u2019 it. Screw it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campbell said the NFL intends to call personal fouls on punch-outs that miss the football and instead hit the ball carrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I\u2019ll probably have 150 personal fouls by the end of the year, so that\u2019ll be fun,\u201d Campbell said.<\/p>\n<p>The punch-out was made popular by former defensive back Charles Tillman, with his \u201cPeanut Punch\u201d helping him to a ridiculous 44 forced fumbles in 13 NFL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions have forced seven fumbles this season, one off the NFL lead. Campbell had a strip-sack of Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson and a punch-out against Bengals running back Chase Brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just got mad at me for punching somebody,\u201d Campbell said of the NFL highlighting him in the memo. \u201cBut, I mean, they got pads on. If anything, it hurt my hand more than the other guy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions linebacker Jack Campbell said he will not change the way he plays. The NFL highlighted Campbell in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-221388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}