{"id":896470,"date":"2026-09-18T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896470\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:18:10","slug":"dan-campbell-its-a-long-season-lions-need-to-get-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/896470\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Campbell: It&#8217;s a long season, Lions need to get better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions head coach Dan Campbell saw a lot that his team needs to improve in Thursday night\u2019s 41-31 loss to the Bills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of room to grow, and that\u2019s encouraging,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to clean up a lot of things on defense right now, particularly in the back end. . . . It wasn\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campbell expressed optimism about the way the Lions can use their extra three days after playing on Thursday night to prepare for Week 3 against the Jets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s early, we\u2019re in Week 2, we\u2019ve got a long season, and the most important thing is that we get better,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe just need to get better than we were today in all three phases. We need to play better against the Jets, and I think we will. We can, and we certainly will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campbell credited Bills head coach Joe Brady for having his team ready to play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got after us and we didn\u2019t play good enough and we didn\u2019t coach good enough. That falls on me,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cIt certainly needed to be a lot cleaner than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions head coach Dan Campbell saw a lot that his team needs to improve in Thursday night\u2019s 41-31&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-896470","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\/896470","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=896470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}