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Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff, left, speaks with head coach Dan Campbell during the first half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. AP<\/p>\nThis Lions season, which started with high expectations, ended with a whimper with one game left in the regular season. <\/p>\n
With a frustrating and sloppy 23-10 loss to the Vikings on Christmas Day, the Lions were officially eliminated from playoff contention. For a team that lost in the NFC title game two years ago and made the second round of the playoffs in 2024, there was a feeling around the team that they\u2019d be at least back in the postseason.<\/p>\n
Yes, the team had lost offensive and defensive coordinators \u2014 Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn, respectively \u2014 to head coaching gigs, but they had talented players on both sides of the ball that are among the best in the game.<\/p>\n
But with the loss and playoff hopes vanished, Lions head coach Dan Campbell said after the game that he would be looking at a lot of things to see what truly went wrong this season \u2014 and that includes himself.<\/p>\n
Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff, left, speaks with head coach Dan Campbell during the first half of an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025, in Minneapolis. AP<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gonna be looking at a lot. I\u2019m gonna be looking at a lot of things because I do not like being home for the playoffs,\u201d Campbell told reporters. \u201cAnd I know our guys don\u2019t either. And there again, whenever you lose, it takes a village. Everybody\u2019s involved, including myself. So, I\u2019m always gonna look at myself first.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that he and Lions general manager Brad Holmes will have plenty to discuss and figure out when they dissect the issues with the 2025 iteration of the club. <\/p>\n
\u201cBrad and I will have a lot of decisions to make, you know, a lot of things to look at,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cThe what\u2019s the whys, the how do we improve? Because we need to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lions came into the day with less than a 10 percent chance to make the playoffs, but needed the win to at least stay alive.<\/p>\n
But self-inflicted wounds in the form of six turnovers proved to be the demise of Detroit in Minnesota. Quarterback Jared Goff never got things going, as he threw two interceptions and was held to 197 passing yards.<\/p>\n
Goff didn\u2019t shy away from how he felt about missing the playoffs. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt sucks,\u201d Goff said. \u201cWe\u2019ll reflect on the whole season after next week, but yeah, it sucks.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This Lions season, which started with high expectations, ended with a whimper with one game left in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23623,2675,23624,9,11,10,22,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-81299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-dan-campbell","9":"tag-detroit-lions","10":"tag-jared-goff","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}