The two Lions competing to be Jared Goff\u2019s backup turned in poor performances in the Hall of Fame Game, and coach Dan Campbell says both want to show they can be better.<\/p>\n
Campbell said Hendon Hooker will start this week\u2019s preseason game against the Falcons and play the first half, and Kyle Allen will play the second half. That reverses their roles from the Hall of Fame Game, when Allen started, Hooker entered in the second half, and neither played well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see Hooker starting this first half versus Atlanta, and then Kyle will take the back half,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cBoth of those guys are \u2014 it goes without saying they\u2019re frustrated with the way that went, and they both want to improve and get better, and they will.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lions have Super Bowl aspirations, and a good season from Goff could get them there. But they\u2019d also like to think they could stay in contention if Goff gets injured and has to miss time, and they\u2019ll need Hooker or Allen to play well to do that. The Lions certainly need a backup quarterback who can play better than Hooker and Allen did in the preseason opener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two Lions competing to be Jared Goff\u2019s backup turned in poor performances in the Hall of Fame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-57793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57793","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=57793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}