their playoff hopes getting dangerously thin<\/a>, the Lions know they\u2019ve got to right the ship in a hurry, and it starts this week.<\/p>\n\u201cOur margin for error is very small right now,\u201d Lions coach Dan Campbell told the media on Sunday. \u201cSo, of course, we\u2019ve got to find a way to win, and we want to win. And I think, I go back to this, we just lost one. We\u2019ve got to find a way to win this next one in front of us. And yeah, I mean, time\u2019s running out. It\u2019s all about finding a way to win the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019ve also been in these (spots) before, where we got counted out when I was a player (2002). We lost two in a row, and we were almost mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. That was all the writing, and then we won out and got in. So, you just, man, you find a way to win the one in front of you and don\u2019t get caught up in the rest of this stuff. That\u2019s the bottom line. We\u2019re in this business to win, we\u2019re trying to win, we\u2019ve got to win.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cowboys\u2019 offense is rolling right now, averaging 29.3 points per game (third in the NFL), and they\u2019ve scored 31, 24, and 33 points in their last three games. They also head to Detroit, possibly seeking some retribution after the Lions went into Dallas last season and smacked them around 47-9.<\/p>\n
While Campbell isn\u2019t so sure they\u2019ll be out for revenge, he also knows that Dallas\u2019 chances at a playoff run would go a long way if they could go into Detroit and get another big win.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think every team\u2019s different, every year\u2019s different,\u201d Campbell said about the Cowboys looking for revenge. \u201cBut I know this, they want to win this game. I know that. Because I know we want to win this game. So, they\u2019re playing good football. They\u2019re very much in that division race over there right now and playoff race. We\u2019re an NFC opponent, and I know that they want to beat us. But we want to win, too. And we need to win. So, that\u2019s where this game\u2019s at.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Lions (7-5) and Dallas Cowboys (6-5-1) will square off in a Week 14 NFC showdown at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,36251,36252],"class_list":["post-72543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-detroit-lions-gambling-odds","tag-detroit-lions-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}