Detroit Lions prioritizing rest and work from home for bye week after 5-2 start
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Detroit Lions prioritizing rest and work from home for bye week after 5-2 start
""I think it's important that they get away," Campbell said on Tuesday. "I do, man. This'll be the last chance we get a little bit of time to -- no different than the players. There are things I'm going to do, I'm going to continue to work through. I'll do some things at home. But some of that -- work's never done. So, we keep going. Where can we improve and get a little bit better in areas, and set our players up in certain areas to have a little more success, across the board? "So, that'll be the bye.""
""Things we're going to clean up and easily correctable, will be corrected," the Lions coach said. "We've got good guys in that room, and they're prideful, and we'll be better. "And we're 5-2 at the bye, and when we come back, we've got to continue to improve. We've got to evolve and improve, and we're in a"
Dan Campbell and the coaching staff will head home during the bye week while assigning specific tasks to work on individually. Players will not practice, giving everyone a chance to rest and recover. The Lions enter the bye at 5-2 after a signature win and expect some injured pieces to return in the coming month. A 10-game stretch begins against the Vikings, then the Commanders and Eagles. The defense is performing strongly behind a makeshift secondary and aggressive pass rush, while the offense remains explosive. The team plans to correct easily fixable issues and continue improving.
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