{"id":489203,"date":"2024-12-31T08:50:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=489203"},"modified":"2024-12-31T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:51:11","slug":"campbell-defends-his-choice-to-use-lions-starters-vs-49ers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/campbell-defends-his-choice-to-use-lions-starters-vs-49ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell defends his choice to use Lions starters vs. 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the right thing to do? Or he made a mistake?<\/p>\n<p>Entering the MNF clash vs. the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions manager Dan Campbell weighed whether he should rest or play the best footballers in the team.<\/p>\n<p>After thinking a lot about that, Campbell decided to use the starters in a rematch of the 2023 NFC Championship Game as Detroit defeated the 49ers 40-34 in California and avoided any major injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a doubt, I thought about that. I did it before the beginning of the match and even before going to sleep last night,\u201d Dan revealed. \u201cI discussed it with my team, but in the end, I decided that the right thing to do was to trust the starters because we owed it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lions?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Lions<\/a> HC Dan Campbell admitted he considered resting starters after the Vikings won yesterday, but ultimately decided to play the guys who prepared all week. He called it a tough decision but added, &quot;We love it hard.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wH9w3W8wbS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wH9w3W8wbS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1873954905922429339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Campbell claimed that Detroit was playing for the victory, although the match didn\u2019t have postseason implications. However, the Lions&#8217; pride was on the line after blowing a 17-point halftime lead to the 49ers in the last playoffs to fall 1 match shy of advancing to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>That elimination still hurts the players that were on the field that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the right thing to do? Or he made a mistake? Entering the MNF clash vs. the San Francisco 49ers, Detroit Lions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":489204,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22764,16776,17324],"news_category":[16703,16715],"gn_keywords":[22766,18736,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The head coach used his best players to defeat San Francisco.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489205,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/489203\/revisions\/489205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489203"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=489203"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=489203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}