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What impressed Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell most about Sunday’s win?

What impressed Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell most about Sunday's win?


Has Holmes come to Campbell with a trade proposal?

“Yeah, could be,” he said with the same grin on his face.

We’ll just have to wait and see what the next 24 to 48 hours brings in terms of the trade news cycle.

What did Campbell think of the debut of outside linebacker Al-Quadin Muhammad?

Speaking of that Lions pass rush, Muhammad led the Lions with six quarterback hurries in Sunday’s contest, but didn’t record an official statistic.

“He was active,” Campbell said. “He was aggressive. He was physical. He went in there and really gave us a good day’s work.”

Campbell said there’s some things they have to clean up mentally that showed up Sunday from Muhammad, and was confident he will, and said it was a performance to build off moving forward.

How much does Campbell appreciate the job special teams coordinator Dave Fipp does?

It was great to see Detroit’s special teams perform the way they did Sunday and play a big part in that convincing win for the Lions.

Raymond had five punt returns for 190 yards (38.0 avg.) and one touchdown, which came on a 90-yard return and became the first player in franchise history to record a punt return and receiving touchdown in the same game.

Fox punted five times for 305 yards (61.0 gross, 56.2 net), making it the first time in NFL history a punter has averaged at least 60.0 gross yards per punt and 55.0 net yards per punt in a game with at least five punts.

Bates converted a 51-yard field goal and was 7-for-7 on extra points. He has now made each of the first 11 field goal attempts of his NFL career, the most field goal conversions a Lions player has had to start their tenure with the team.

Dorsey had a 72-yard kickoff return that set up a short touchdown drive for the offense.

“So much of the attention goes to Ben (Johnson) and AG (Aaron Glenn) because of what they’ve been able to do and that’s where most of the plays go to in a game, but man, Fipp is every bit as important as those guys are,” Campbell said.

“From the time I was able to get him here and get him signed out of Philly, I was fortunate. It just worked out. Everything lined right because Fipp is a hell of a coach. The guy loves football, and he coaches it with passion. He always has a damn good plan for the opponent. He’s crystal clear what he’s looking for and what he thinks is going to work. The guys believe it and buy in…

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