The best of Dan Campbell before week 1.

0:00It's Game Week for the Detroit Lions. They opened up the season Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. Stoney, your level of fire, up and miss over this. I'm getting there. Yeah, I'm still it's slow development, but by I think Thursday, actually after seeing the season opener tomorrow night is when I'll start to get fired up for the Lions. So Dan Campbell met with the media yesterday and we like to bring you the best of what he had to say and he started with his overall vibes with this team going into game one.

1:22Okay, he mentioned last year's opener, a loss in Green Bay and by NFL standards, a pretty decisive loss losing by 14 points. Is there any concern about them breaking out all their weapons, golf, Jameer Gibbs, Penne Sule, Aiden Hutchinson, all these guys that were shelved during the preseason getting off to slow starts. I don't think so. I think teams who rest their guys, which is most of the national football league, they don't have that maybe rusty for a series or two, but that's about it. I think they're ready to go. So I don't have concern about that. Yeah, Coach Campbell mentioned last year, unless it was a weird start to the season. I know they lost

2:26the Green Bay and it was kind of a shocker to a lot of fans, but they end up after five weeks, four and one. Week two, they scored 52, a put up a 50 burger against the Bears. So and then we all know what happened at the end of the season though. They didn't make the playoffs and are last in the division. So I don't know what to take moving forward. I just hope that no matter what happens week one and week two, week three, four is you learn from your right and you get to learn your team more. You learn from your mistakes. So I think, you know, everyone kind of feels pretty good heading to week one, but we really just don't know. Okay. So one of the huge questions is what is drew Petsing going to be like as an offensive coordinator? Here was Dan Campbell's analysis of how Petsing and Goff are doing so far working together.

3:34I think that's a good thing. I just, I think that's fine. You know, once they still, then continue to grow and do it before quarterback days. To be able to continue to test, to, to be able to continue to test, to, to be able to continue to test. So sometimes you learn from your failures. I think the failure of John Morton last year, helped them zero in on exactly what they wanted for his replacement. And you could sense early on

4:36and we talked about it on the air. This John Morton thing might not be working. What they do before a game is played is probably about 5% of the job is to get ready for the season because once the game starting, he starts calling plays, I feel like in that 5%, this has been a home run. It's, look, it's comforting to hear him say that and it's comforting to know that you think this thing's going to work. I would be remiss though and not mentioning, I wonder if the same question was asked about John Morton at this time last year and if his response was similar. Yeah, I agree, Stoney. And then even go back further with did he say the same things about Anthony Lynn, you know, and so no, but my point is to me, this is just me personally, it's all talk right now. And they say all the same things about the new hires. Hey, we like the words headed. We like the relationship, but we all know it only matters on game day. Ken Drew Petsing get the team to execute what he's been trying to get him to do in practice on game day. And look, Jared golf is coming off

5:36three straight seasons, 4500 yards, 30 touchdowns, only quarterback in the NFL to do that. Jared golf has a ton of credibility. I, you know, if Jared golf approves, I don't know, there's any reason anybody else shouldn't. But on game day, yeah, this is where, you know, this offense needs to be Campbell Petsing and golf's offense. No doubt. All right, next up, somebody forced their way onto the roster. Was it showed too much grit, too much battle. And they had to keep them. Here's who Dan Campbell said it was. He had to make plays every day. He had to judge our eye every day. And he did that every day. But there was special team defense. He did something every day that there's not a coach on

6:40game day. He gave a very good sign saying something about our game. On game day, on this, on game day, on this, you can't ignore it that. So he's the most obvious rookie free agent that can come to the air. It's awesome. For what that. And that's, and he's a special team player too, by the way, getting play special teams, man. But he's going to be able to give us survival reps and a couple of teams. So, um, and when I'm talking about the defense, you know, other things. Okay, Ericko Niels fascinating journey to the NFL, including three years as a long Island university shark. Yes. And then he went with Sagnetti, right? Or did he know? Sagnetti was gone. He joined Bob Chesney at James Madison played there for a year, transferred to Rutgers, which, which he did do that. But an undrafted free agent. And I feel like the

7:46Lions and Brad Holmes do a pretty good job of unearthing guys like this. Well, see, we'll see if he makes a difference. I know. Um, but it's a fun story. Uh, I final thing from Dan Campbell, RB two. Everybody talks about the what they saw to Jacob sailors in the preseason. But he want to throw in another name. Everybody just plays. They think he seems like a real physical short yardage back. Valky. Yeah. I mean, he could be.

8:49He's, he's kind of built like a fire. He's got a, he doesn't have a lot of, you know, he's been around for a long time. And if he think how many carries does he have not many seven in his, uh, two previous years, he's got three receptions on three targets. Gang that's your guy. Yeah. It's, it's comforting for me to hear it because that's my guy. Like you said, I was a little worried about his roster spot because he's just always injured. But the thing is, I think you just mentioned how little we've seen of him, Doug. When we did see him, though, I think people forgot. He had some shake to him. And he actually could make some people miss. Remember, his rookie season, the preseason, we kind of got excited. I hate we might have something here as a backup. He's really good on special teams, of course, because he used to play safety in college so we can tackle and he can do a lot of, I think, you know, Fib can use him a lot of different ways when they're punting to like, he's always a possible threat out of that backfield for trick plays and things like that. But this year with the injury to Pacheco, he might be asked to step up a little more and Campbell didn't mention pass pro. If you can pass protect, you'll get yourself onto the field. So maybe he hasn't led leg up there. So we will see a little bit

9:50of Valky looks like. And that is the best of what Dan Campbell had to say to the media. Yesterday, game week for the Detroit Lions, it take on New Orleans this coming Sunday in the season opener. 248, 539, 97, 97. If you want to keep talking Lions, you want to keep talking Michigan, want to keep talking Michigan state. We've taken calls on both the Wolverines and the Spartans today. All that straight ahead here on Carson Anderson 97 one.