Eric Woodyard, ESPN
BALTIMORE — There have been deny excuses made as Detroit Lions head professor Dan Campbell described his group’s 38-6 blowout loss to the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday.
“They kicked our ass,” Campbell mentioned bluntly in defeat.
The Lions’ hiccup at Baltimore was once their first highway lack of the season, because the protection allowed essentially the most issues in a recreation this season, with MVP candidate Lamar Jackson serving to the Ravens submit 503 overall yards of offense.
Winners of 4 directly video games, the Lions entered Baltimore fix for the NFL’s absolute best document via Day 6, however Campbell mentioned “we probably needed” the loss as a fact test to stick on the right track.
“You don’t want these to happen, but when it does, it recenters you, it refocuses you. And that’s all I know. I don’t want it to happen. Nobody wants it to happen,” Campbell mentioned. “Nobody likes to look over there and watch them having a great time because they kicked our ass. Nobody thinks that’s fun, but I know that motivates me for next week, it motivates our team. You’ll do any and everything you can not to have that feeling again. That’s all I mean by that.”
Detroit had an extraordinary alternative to start out the season 6-1 or higher for the primary life since 1956 however allowed the Ravens to attain a landing on every in their first 4 drives to dig itself a 28-0 hollow at halftime that the Lions by no means recovered from.
Jackson ruled the Lions, going 21-for-27 for 357 passing yards, the second one maximum in one recreation in his occupation. He additionally completed with 3 passing touchdowns and a dashing landing.
“Lamar beat us. He hammered us with his arm. He threw the ball extremely well, he ran when he needed to, and we did not handle it well,” Campbell mentioned. “Our energy was good, which is crazy when you come out of a game like that and look at the score … our energy was good, but our detail and discipline, which has been so good over the last four or five weeks was not good enough, so self-induced.
“That was once a mix of a quantity of various issues, and identical to we win as a group, we lose as a group. That was once a kind of.”
One of the few bright spots for Detroit was rookie running back Jahmyr Gibbs returning from a two-game absence because of a hamstring injury to score his first NFL touchdown off a 21-yard gain at 13:59 in the fourth. With veteran running back David Montgomery (ribs) out, he carried the bulk of the workload with 126 yards from scrimmage — catching nine passes for 58 yards while rushing 11 times for 68 yards.
However, Gibbs says the loss to Baltimore shows the Lions that “we’re no longer invincible.”
“I believe it raises the depth within the store room, realizing that we’re no longer invincible,” Gibbs said. “We’re no longer invincible so everyone’s taking to be extra tuned in on their main points and what they’ve were given to do to be extra disciplined.”
The Lions (5-2) will look to bounce back in their “Monday Night time Soccer” recreation at Ford Farmland in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders on Oct. 30.
Offensive take on Taylor Decker described the Baltimore loss as “embarrassing,” while quarterback Jared Goff, who failed to throw a touchdown pass for the first time this season, called it “deny a laugh” as the Lions failed to execute the way they know they’re capable of against the Ravens. Goff shouldered the blame for the loss as he wants to lead his team the right way going forward based off past experiences.
“We’ve been via a complete quantity worse than this,” Goff said. “This was once a difficult recreation, we were given our butts kicked, however this workforce has had a quantity of unhappiness, and this is more or less our first style of having kicked within the tooth this week and we wish to reply the proper means.”
