The first time Dan Campbell became a head coach, he was named interim head coach of the Dolphins in 2015. The Dolphins won their first game under Campbell by a score of 38-10. It was clear that Campbell had brought fresh energy to his team.<\/p>\n
Now Campbell is head coach of the Lions, and he\u2019s preparing to play a Giants team that just played its first game under interim head coach Mike Kafka. And Campbell says he sees a lot of that interim-coach energy when watching tape of the Giants\u2019 game against the Packers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there was some fresh energy last week when you watched them against Green Bay. Sometimes it\u2019s just that newness,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cJust the change itself, something a little different or a little new can spark you. There was a little bit of that. They\u2019ve always played hard, watch the tape, these guys played hard in September, October, early November. But there\u2019s probably a little bit of that, and they had a chance to beat Green Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lions are 10-point favorites against the Giants on Sunday, but Campbell knows an interim head coach can bring a fresh energy to a team that isn\u2019t expected to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first time Dan Campbell became a head coach, he was named interim head coach of the Dolphins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-303144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}