{"id":871657,"date":"2026-10-05T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871657\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:18:09","slug":"dan-campbell-im-not-talking-about-firing-kelvin-sheppard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871657\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Campbell: I’m not talking about firing Kelvin Sheppard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lions defense was unimpressive in the first three weeks of the 2026 season and things didn\u2019t get any better in Sunday night\u2019s loss to the Panthers. <\/p>\n

Carolina rolled up 445 yards in a 32-26 win that marked the third time in four weeks that the Lions allowed at least 30 points to their opponents. It\u2019s the first time that they\u2019ve done that in the first four weeks of a season since they went 0-16 in 2008 and that unsurprisingly made potential changes the focus of head coach Dan Campbell\u2019s postgame press conference. <\/p>\n

Campbell was specifically asked about whether he is considering firing defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard. Campbell said he believes that the team has to find ways to improve with what\u2019s already in house. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not talking about<\/a> all that,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI\u2019m talking about getting better right now with what we got and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going do. We\u2019re going to find a way to get better with what we got.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campbell said that the Lions have \u201ctweaked\u201d things each week and that there are still other things to address as the Lions \u201cexhaust everything here\u201d in an attempt to find a way to improve on defense. Some of those tweaks will need to start paying off soon if Campbell wants to avoid shaking up his staff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions defense was unimpressive in the first three weeks of the 2026 season and things didn\u2019t get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-871657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871657","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=871657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}