Before Dan Campbell arrived in Detroit, a 9-8 record was considered a great season for the Lions. But Campbell has raised expectations significantly, which means this year\u2019s 9-8 finish is a disappointment.<\/p>\n
Still, Campbell thinks his team is generally on the right track, even as he prepares to make some minor changes in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still believe the nucleus of this team is right, but we\u2019ve got to make a few changes,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to work through some things to get the best version of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Campbell said that by beating the NFC North champion Bears in Chicago on Sunday, the Lions showed what kind of team they\u2019re capable of being.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood win by the guys. Proud of them. That\u2019s the way to finish. I didn\u2019t expect anything different out of them, just knowing the guys we have,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cOur guys fought.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now Campbell needs to figure out how to get those guys to fight more consistently than they did in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before Dan Campbell arrived in Detroit, a 9-8 record was considered a great season for the Lions. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-389301","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\/389301","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=389301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}