Dan Campbell says Lions Week 8 game film was buried

After reviewing it, and with nothing more to be gained, Lions head coach Dan Campbell said Week 8’s game film has been buried.

Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell made headlines with his “knee cap-biting” assertion during his introductory press conference, and he cried at the podium after a gut-wrenching Week 5 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

The Lions went into their bye week on the lowest of lows, a 44-6 loss to the Phiadelphia Eagles. The Eagles ran for 236 yards in the game, and Lions didn’t score until the fourth quarter on a drive that accounted for 67 of their 228 yards of offense. Sprinkle in eight penalties, and there’s nothing positive to be gleaned from that game.

Campbell has pointed to some possible changes coming out of the bye, which is a good point to conduct a review and it happened to come at a proverbial halfway point in the season. But for an 0-8 team, only so many changes can really be made at this point.

Dan Campbell says Week 8 game film has been buried

On Thursday, Dannie Rogers of Bally Sports Detroit posted a clip of her talk with Campbell for the “Lions Game Plan” show. The coach said some of the Week 8 game film has literally been buried.

Via SI.com:

“You said put behind us, it’s really bury it,” Campbell said. “As a matter of fact, that’s what AG (defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn) did this week — they watched it, and they went outside and literally buried it under the ground. It’s a good way to do it. Yeah, got it done. It needed to be. So, we learned what we needed to learn from it, and we buried it because we can’t let that happen again.”

Campbell cited defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn reviewing Week 8’s horrible showing from his unit, learning what he needed to, and actually going outside to bury the game film in the ground. It may have just been the defensive film in this specific case, but the Lions could have buried the offensive game film from Week 8 (and most of the first eight games) too.