{"id":368191,"date":"2025-11-10T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/368191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:16:11","slug":"dan-campbell-took-over-lions-play-calling-lets-try-something-a-little-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/368191\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Campbell took over Lions&#8217; play calling: &#8220;Let&#8217;s try something a little different&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lions head coach Dan Campbell was the primary offensive play caller in today\u2019s 44-22 win over the Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell said after the game that he took over for offensive coordinator John Morton because he thought the Lions\u2019 offense needed a spark, but that Morton remained an integral part of the offensive decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s try something a little different,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cI know what I want to do, I know how I want to do it. That being said, this is a collaborative effort. I was taking input from John Morton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most notable difference for the Lions\u2019 offense today was that wide receiver Jameson Williams had his best game of the season, with six catches for 119 yards. Morton acknowledged two weeks ago that he <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/lions-oc-john-morton-ive-failed-jameson-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">failed to get Williams involved enough<\/a> in the offense. That wasn\u2019t a problem today, with Campbell calling the plays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lions head coach Dan Campbell was the primary offensive play caller in today\u2019s 44-22 win over the Commanders.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":368192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-368191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115522999653680802","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}