Detroit Lions have the pieces to ‘mix it up with just about anybody’

Head coach Dan Campbell isn’t concerned with external expectations for how the Detroit Lions will fare in 2022, even though projections are mostly positive that the Lions will improve substantially over their 3-13-1 record in 2021.

What Campbell thinks, and what he wants his players to think, is another matter.

“I want them to know that I truly believe that we have the right coaching staff,” Campbell said at his press conference Wednesday morning at the start of training camp.

“I do believe we have enough pieces here to complete. I really do. When you’re a coach, you just want to know that you have enough pieces to be able to compete, and I do feel that way.”