Watch Dan Campbell's postgame speech after win over the Colts (video)

It was not the kind of outwardly dominant showing they've had a few times this season, but the Detroit Lions did it a little bit differently in Sunday's 24-6 win over the Indianapolis Colts. In the second half, the Lions possessed the ball for over 22 minutes and the defense kept the Colts offense at-bay all day.

The Lions played pretty clean football, while the Colts committed 10 penalties, some if which negated big chunks of yards for their offense. The Colts had some other near-misses (drops, etc.), so the Lions let them beat themselves while grinding out a win in calculated fashion.

In the locker room after the game, head coach Dan Campbell talked about the rare air the Lions are in.

"That’s a good job. That got us to ten. That's ten. That's nine a row. How many of you guys won nine in a row here, in the NFL? Raise your hand."

"Yeah. That’s sayin’ something. It’s rare, alright?," Campbell said. "We are in rare air right now, alright? So we’re doing somethin’ special, which we knew we would."

Campbell gave game balls to linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez, punter Jack Fox and assistant head coach/running backs coach Scottie Montgomery, who was the Colts' running backs coach from 2021-2022.

Dan Campbell authors another great postgame speech

Campbell then began to reminisce back to the middle of the 2022 season, with roots in how the Lions have dramatically turned around their fortunes on the road-in line with their rise to success, not coincidentally.

"We were 2-6 … we had just beaten Green Bay at home", Campbell started. "We had not won a road game in two years,"

"We had not won a road game in like two years," Campbell said. "So, what are you gonna do? You know now the thing is about road games. We were 0-11-1. 0-11-1 on the road … And then we went to Chicago and got it. We got our first W and, since then, we’re 16-5 on the road, men, and every one of you are a part of that. That’s big, man. 16-5 on the road, alright? So we’re road warriors. We’re also --- damn good at home. Good win, man."

Jared Goff echoed Campbell's use of the term "road warriors", with a nod to how well Lions' fans travel.

"We are road warriors. We love it,” Goff said, via Eric Woodyard of ESPN.com. “We come together on the road, and we have an us-against-the-world mentality and it’s fun when we can get our own fans here. The way they show out, it’s really unbelievable. They do a hell of a job.”

With two key members of the Lions using the same term as they moved to 6-0 on the road this season, the old-school wrestling GIF was easy.

Watch the Lions' entire Week 12 postgame locker room celebration below: