DETROIT -- The Detroit Lions are heading into the bye week after a big-time win at the top of the NFC’s standings.
Detroit beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24-9 on Monday Night Football. The Lions head into the bye at 5-2, and with their win, drop the Bucs to 5-2.
#### **Here are some notable quotes from the Lions and Bucs players and coaches on Monday:**
**Lions HC Dan Campbell, on not losing back-to-back games since 2022:** “Well, I hate when you guys ask that because it’s like the kiss of death is coming. We just got a special group. A special group of coaches and players. They’re competitive, they want to win, and they’re able to focus on what needs to be fixed, what cost us the loss the week before, and simply keep it in that compartment. Don’t make more of it than it needs be, don’t lose confidence, and just fix it. We just go to work and it’s always been that way. Then the lights come on and guys show up. (Amon-Ra) St. Brown showed up, that defense showed up, (Aidan Hutchinson) Hutch showed up. It’s great to get (Alim McNeill) Mac back, (Lions LB) Jack Campbell. Our guys show up. It’s just good to win.”
**Lions QB Jared Goff, on the offense’s day and high bar to meet:** “It’s an ugly 24 and we’ll take it. I think so. I think our bar is so high. We got such good players, we got such a good O-line, I like to think I do a pretty good job, we got such great skill players. We expect more of ourselves when our defense is playing that well. I say that, like of course we’re happy with the win, but getting the ball in plus territory that many times, we need to get points out of it and we weren’t good enough in that section today.”
**Bucs HC Todd Bowles, on what the Lions did to put Baker Mayfield off his game:** “Thought Detroit did a good job keeping him in the pocket and they kept him in the pocket and they got pressure from within. So that’s important. We got to block it better. We got to protect him better, but we got to get open downfield as well.”
**Mayfield, on the officiating:** “Still pretty damn confused about the double review. A lot of things in that game that were a little questionable but a lot of frustration at the end of that, might be displaced on John Hussey in the moment ... But I work my ass off and I put a lot into this game. So when things that I don’t see (as) being fair, I’m gonna let somebody know and that’s good, bad, indifferent.”
**NFL pool report with VP of instant replay Mark Butterworth, on the double review:** “So when a team challenges or the replay official stops the game, by rule all reviewable aspects of the play are under review.”
**Mayfield, on what the Lions did to the Bucs offense:** “I mean, they’re really physical. It didn’t matter who they had down there at the secondary. You know, some plays could have had some illegal contact downfield and some holding calls. But it’s no excuse for the ones that were there that I should have hit them on. So it’s a little give and take.”
**Lions CB Amik Robertson, on new faces stepping up in the secondary:** “I told those guys after the game how proud I was of them. Every last single one of them - (Nick) Whiteside, (Thomas Harper) Harp, all of them. All I thought about when I was out there is playing for those guys. And I told them even though this may be y’all first opportunity, show the world because we heard the noise. We heard all the noise, ‘Secondary, whatever, whatever.’ But those guys went out there and played their hearts out and I had no doubt in them. I just wanted them to - let’s go out there and show everybody instead of talking about it. And then that’s what I felt like they did tonight.”
**Goff, on the big day from Jahmyr Gibbs:** “Those really long ones are fun to watch and I feel like I got the best seat in the house just to like see him hit the hole and then just like take off. I don’t know how many safeties in the league could catch him. So as soon as he gets there, it’s over. He’s gone. It felt like last year, the Titans run, the 70-yard run, it was very similar where it’s just like him on the safety and then it’s over. But it’s pretty cool. He’s dang fast and it’s fun to watch.”
**Campbell, on his confidence in Lions DC Kelvin Sheppard: On having confidence in Lions Defensive Coordinator Kelvin Sheppard:** “Listen, I just think Shep has gotten better and better and better. I think he’s gotten more and more comfortable as he’s gone. I feel like he’s got a really good feel of our personnel, what the opponent is trying to do. He’s got a really good staff with him, those are some really good coaches, too. All of those guys work really well together, but he’s the leader over there. He knows how to communicate, he understands how to really give them the picture of what we are looking at. I am really proud of him, but I’m not shocked either. This is what I expected out of Kelvin Sheppard, man. This isn’t surprising. It’s a really good job.”
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