It’s been one full year since Lions head coach Dan Campbell offered up the statement, “Football should be fun.”
A seemingly self-obvious statement, yet football was absolutely not fun for anyone in Detroit in the preceding years. The losses mounted, the players who were fun to watch kept getting exiled away and the tone around the team was essentially a dark cloud with no silver lining. Banishing the darkness that was Matt Patricia, Bob Quinn and the “Patriot Way” was a start, but bringing in a relatively unknown commodity like Campbell to lead the on-field product didn’t exactly blow the clouds away immediately.
