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Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Lions reporter Colton Pouncy talks Dan Campbell, NFC North expectations

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Purple Insider - a Minnesota Vikings and NFL podcast

Sports, Nfl Team, Nfl, Nfl Draft, Football, Minnesota, Vikings

4.7958 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Athletic's Colton Pouncy talks about how the Lions are responding to expectations, how wide their window is and what that means in the NFC North Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

and Every Hey everybody welcome to another episode of Purple Insider Matthew Collard here and

0:29.7

joining me today on the show is Colton Pouncey.

0:33.4

He covers the Detroit Lions for the athletic.

0:36.9

First time on the show.

0:38.8

Colton, how is training camp treating you buddy?

0:41.6

Yeah, it's been pretty good man just

0:43.7

won it down yesterday I think was the last open day they had a team scrimmage so yeah like I said

0:48.6

I'm ready to get back in like the regular season flow of things you know I'm ready

0:51.8

for the season start at this point. It's been a long long a training camp here, but ready to get going again for sure.

0:57.3

Where I want to start with you, Colton, is with Dan Campbell. I am very interested because Campbell's M.O. is being the

1:06.0

motivational head coach, the guy who brings all the energy, and I think that that

1:10.9

really worked very well for him,

1:13.2

taking over a team that was at the very bottom

1:16.6

and had been down with Matt Patricia for quite a while.

1:19.4

But now, Dan Gamble has to morph himself

1:22.4

into something a little bit different which is a guy that is

1:26.0

handling expectations for his team as they go into this year with Super Bowl expectations. They're one of the Super Bowl favorites. So tell me how Dan

1:35.8

Campbell has changed or how he is handling a very different vibe now instead of, hey let's take the next step let's take the next

1:45.4

step and pushing his players that way to now it's kind of super bowl or bust for them.

1:51.1

Yeah you know I think Dan's always cognizant of like expectations and how that's affecting

1:56.5

his players and you know I think on the first day training camp he told a story about

2:01.1

when he was a player with the New York Giants.

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