While being an NFL family certainly has it’s pros, Holly Campbell knows it also about navigating some cons, especially in the context of a marriage. The wife of Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell joined the Sunday Sports Club Podcast, where she dove into some of the obstacles the family has faced throughout Dan’s career. She […] While being an NFL family certainly has it’s pros, Holly Campbell knows it also about navigating some cons, especially in the context of a marriage. The wife of Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell joined the Sunday Sports Club Podcast, where she dove into some of the obstacles the family has faced throughout Dan’s career. She began by emphasizing just how much she loves Detroit. “We loved it when Dan played here. We love it now. The people are great. The excitement — being in the building, you just feel good, but it really does start from the top. Sheila is an amazing owner,” she said. But when it comes down to it, Holly says the fans are the best part. “They are so loyal. When you’re winning — and right now, a lot of the teams are successful, not just the Lions, like the Pistons and the Tigers, and I think the Red Wings are doing pretty well too … you can feel the excitement in the city, and Detroit deserves it,” she said. But this football season wasn’t what many Lions fans had hoped for. The pair touched on the disappointment that comes with not making the playoffs and how they navigate that together. She says sometimes it’s just not your year—an answer Dan wouldn’t like. “My husband would be like, ‘You don’t make excuses’, but from the wife who watches him busting his butt and feels so bad for him, there are excuses,” she said, laughing. “There are things that happened. … When you lose an entire position pretty much, it’s harder. You have a gaping hole in one of your most important units that you didn’t know you were gonna have until the last second.” She said Dan still wouldn’t go for that—that there were chances to win in every game the Lions played, but she likes to defend him anyway. Another part of their relationship, she says, is gauging what he needs after a loss. She emphasized Dan would never be outwardly angry, but she can feel when he’s upset. “Normally after a loss we’ll talk a little bit if he feels like it and then he sits down at the kitchen table and starts watching film,” she said. Truly a football guy. Holly goes on to touch on a number of other subjects, including how moving from city to city has affected their two kids. You can watch the full episode below. And onto the rest of your notes. Great piece from Will Burchfield on 97.1 on Roy Lopez’s love for the Lions and desire to come back. Alex Anzalone becomes a three-time father. Congrats to No. 34 and his wife! Amon-Ra St. Brown is back in Los Angeles, near where he grew up, with a strong take that L.A. has the best food in the U.S. Some input from NFL analyst Lindsay Rhodes on the possibility of Mike McDaniel becoming the Lions’ next offensive coordinator. Speaking of, here’s a compilation of clips of McDaniel breaking down some of the things he’s learned over the years that’s pretty neat. The Lions are hosting a Girls Flag Football Coaching Clinic on March 14 at Ford Field. It’s okay if you skip this one. Former Lion D’Andre Swift talks about former Lion Matthew Stafford as they gear up to face off in the playoffs this weekend. See More:

A.J. Brown asked for a trade numerous times this past season (as early as after the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Los Angeles Rams in Week 3), multiple sources confirmed to Bleeding Green Nation. Brown is coming off his worst season as a pro since 2021, when he caught a career-lows with 63 passes for 869 […] A.J. Brown asked for a trade numerous times this past season (as early as after the Philadelphia Eagles beat the Los Angeles Rams in Week 3), multiple sources confirmed to Bleeding Green Nation. Brown is coming off his worst season as a pro since 2021, when he caught a career-lows with 63 passes for 869 yards and five touchdowns. This season, he caught 78 passes for 1,003 yards, his lowest output since 2021. When asked about the possibility of trading Brown this offseason on Thursday at the Eagles’ year-end press conference, Eagles’ general manager Howie Roseman said, “It is hard to find great players in the NFL, and A.J. is a great player. I think from my perspective, that’s what we’re going out and looking for when we go out here in free agency, in the draft, just trying to find great players who love football, and he’s that guy.” Brown may not be that guy any longer. He has been disgruntled all season. He does not have the speed to create separation from a defender anymore, and despite his complaining about getting the ball, he suffered from a spate of drops this season that were highly uncharacteristic of him. A bold case in point came in the Eagles’ 23-19 Wild Card round playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday. Brown dropped a pass down the middle on a third-and-five at the Eagles’ 40 with 2:21 left to play. The ball went right through his hands. Brown was targeted seven times in the game, catching three passes for mere 25 yards—and he looked old, and creaky doing it. Brown and Jalen Hurts may be in a “good, great place” right now, they may both agree Hurts may not be the quarterback for him at this stage of his career. When asked in November about the possibility of Brown being traded, Roseman said, “I think that when you’re trying to be a great team, it’s hard to trade great players, and A.J. Brown is a great player. He wears a ‘C’ for a reason. He’s an important part of this team, of this organization. He cares about winning, he cares about his teammates, and I think when you’re a team like ours that is looking forward to an opportunity to compete for a championship, you just don’t get rid of guys like that.” Of course, Roseman said that. He also said that about Carson Wentz in January 2021. “When you have players like that, they’re like fingers on your hands,” Roseman said. “You can’t even imagine that they’re not a part of you, that they’re not here. That’s how we feel about Carson.” Roseman traded Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts on March 17, 2021. See More: Philadelphia Eagles News

The Eagles didn’t waste time moving on from Kevin Patullo at offensive coordinator, but as the coaches and players echoed throughout the back-half of the season, the struggles weren’t the result of just one person. Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni met with reporters to cap off the 2025 season and spoke about Jalen Hurts’ role […] The Eagles didn’t waste time moving on from Kevin Patullo at offensive coordinator, but as the coaches and players echoed throughout the back-half of the season, the struggles weren’t the result of just one person. Howie Roseman and Nick Sirianni met with reporters to cap off the 2025 season and spoke about Jalen Hurts’ role in their issues. “Sirianni: Throughout the year, there were a lot of questions on Kevin, and like I’ve said to you guys, we all had a hand in our offense this year. Good, bad, you name it, we all had a hand in it. That’s every coach, every player, myself obviously at the front of that list. Again, I love Jalen Hurts. I love everything that he brings to the table. Every time you step on the field, you feel very confident that you can win any game that you’re going to play when you have him as your quarterback. He has shown that to this organization, to myself, to Howie, to the city, that he’s a winner and he is able to do many different things at a very high level. But again, whether it was winning the games or whether it was us not playing up to our [standard] on offense, we all have our hands in that.” Roseman shared similar sentiments, saying that everyone within the organization needs to look within and see what they can do better. The GM lamented that it was a disappointing season, but now they have an opportunity to evaluate the issues as a whole, rather than looking at things week-to-week in-season. “Roseman: I think what Coach has said, we have won a lot of games with Jalen as our quarterback. We’ve won a world championship with him as an MVP in that game, so I think obviously he’s done a tremendous job as our starting quarterback.” The head coach later also defended Hurts and his willingness to do new or different things depending on whoever they bring in as a coordinator or coach – as reports earlier in the season suggested the QB restricted the offense due to his preferences. “Sirianni: I think you saw this year that he’s open to do a bunch. We were under-center probably more than we have been. Different motions, different things like that. Here’s what I’ll say, Jalen always wants to do– Jalen’s proved this to everybody, that he’ll do whatever it takes to win football games. Sometimes that’s throwing it a bunch, sometimes that’s running it a bunch, sometimes it’s him handing it off a bunch. He’ll do whatever it takes to win. All I’ve ever felt from Jalen and all [I’ve] ever [known] from Jalen is that the man will do anything he can do to win football games. He pushes himself to do new things. He pushes himself to excel at the things that he has already done so well, and he’s proven to everybody year-in, year-out, all he cares about is winning and all he cares about is being able to hold that trophy up at the end of the year.” Suggestions that Hurts wasn’t willing to be coached seemed in stark contrast to everything the QB has shown since he’s been in the NFL. As the son of a high school football coach, Hurts’ desire to improve and learn is well-documented, so to think he would suddenly put limitations on what he was willing to do, didn’t add up. Sirianni also said that they will get insight from Hurts throughout the process to hire a new offensive coordinator, and while the head coach will ultimately make that decision, he’d be remiss not to include the QB. See More:

Eagles Question of the Day: Head over to The Feed and weigh in with your answer and explanation! Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles news and links … After this season’s flop, the Eagles’ wounded offense needs much more than a Band-Aid – The AthleticThis is especially true when it’s juxtaposed against a sense inside […] Eagles Question of the Day: Head over to The Feed and weigh in with your answer and explanation! Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles news and links … After this season’s flop, the Eagles’ wounded offense needs much more than a Band-Aid – The Athletic This is especially true when it’s juxtaposed against a sense inside the locker room that the Eagles’ powerbrokers (Sirianni, general manager Howie Roseman and owner Jeffrey Lurie) are reluctant to criticize Hurts. For all that the quarterback has accomplished, including two standout performances on the sport’s biggest stage (one of which earned him Super Bowl MVP honors), he has been the source of much internal frustration, including from teammates other than Brown. Hurts, who has an endorsement deal with Michael Jordan’s brand within the Nike subdivision, fashions himself as the NFL’s “MJ” — witness his hallway pose with a cigar and the Lombardi Trophy last February — and some in the organization take that personally. Jordan, at times, could be abrasive and biting while relentlessly prodding his teammates to push themselves to excellence. He was also, in the opinion of many, the greatest basketball player of all time, as well as the dude you absolutely wanted with the ball in his hands and everything on the line. Hurts had that chance last Sunday, and his performance wasn’t exactly Jordanesque. And although that single failure doesn’t disqualify him from being able to lead, some of his other qualities — obsessive perfectionism, hyper-focus that can come off as aloofness, a tendency to go his own way — aren’t always serving him well in tense moments such as this one. Source: Eagles showed interest in Charlie Weis Jr. before their season was over – BGN As soon as the final seconds ticked away on the Eagles’ Wild Card round loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, it was obvious the Eagles would be parting ways with offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo. Bleeding Green Nation has learned that the Eagles were inquiring about then-Ole Miss/now-LSU offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, Jr. weeks before the season was over. And though the Eagles “officially” announced Patullo would no longer be the team’s offensive coordinator in an announcement by Nick Sirianni on Tuesday, multiple SEC sources confirmed the Eagles were serious about Weis, Jr. before the announcement was public, enough to make arrangements for him to fly into Philadelphia to interview at the NovaCare Complex possibly as soon as next week. The Great Nick Sirianni Debate With BLG!!! – Go Birds Podcast Brandon Lee Gowton joins the podcast to discuss the Eagles’ dismissal of Kevin Patullo and what the future holds for Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts with a new coach coming in. ‘Making sacrifices:’ Roseman warns that once again Eagles can’t keep everyone – NBCSP We watched last offseason as the Eagles lost Josh Sweat, Milton Williams, Isaiah Rodgers and several other key free agents from the Super Bowl championship team. Should we expect more of the same this offseason? Howie Roseman warned Thursday that for the Eagles to continue retaining their best players they’re going to have to move on from valuable but lesser players. That’s just life in a salary cap world. The cap just doesn’t allow you to pay everybody or keep everybody. The challenge is to stay competitive while dealing with the inevitable free agency losses. So far, Roseman has managed to do this five years in a row. “As you get better, you have a natural arc of the team,” Roseman said. “I think that when you look at our team, we drafted a lot of offensive players, we resigned a lot of offensive players, (then) we drafted a lot of defensive players that were young on rookie contracts. There’s natural transition in what we do. I’m not making an excuse or anything, but there’s a national transition in that in terms of what you’re paying your guys, which side of the ball you’re paying guys who are coming up.” Takeaways from Nick Sirianni’s and Howie Roseman’s year-end press conference – PhillyVoice JimmySays: The Eagles changed defensive coordinators during the 2023 season, and the defense proceeded to get even worse. Still, a play-calling change might’ve at least made the offense somewhat less predictable. Then again, the Eagles’ delusional staff didn’t think they were predictable, so… Bowen: You Say You Want an Evolution? Eagles’ Nick Sirianni says he agrees in year-end news conference – PHLY Another popular opinion is that Hurts is resistant to change, or that the team has to work within his limitations as a passer. “I think you saw this year that he’s open to do a bunch,” Sirianni said. “We were under center probably more than we have been. Different motions, different things like that. … Jalen’s proved this to everybody, that he’ll do whatever it takes to win football games. “Sometimes that’s throwing it a bunch, sometimes that’s running it a bunch, sometimes it’s him handing it off a bunch. He’ll do whatever it takes to win. … He pushes himself to do new things. He pushes himself to excel at the things that he has already done so well, and he’s proven to everybody, year-in, year-out, all he cares about is winning, and all he cares about is being able to hold that trophy up at the end of the year.” As season wrapups go, this one was not revelatory. But it did seem energetic, and optimistic, two things that weren’t always in evidence during the Eagles’ 2025 struggles. Three free agents that could fit Washington Commanders offensive coordinator David Blough – Hogs Haven Following a dismal season, and a brief period of reflection, the

Given the time of the year and the sad fact that the Detroit Lions are not participating in the NFL playoffs for the first time in three seasons, most of the discussion surrounding the team is centered around the coaching staff. Shortly after the season, Lions coach Dan Campbell and former offensive coordinator John Morton […] Given the time of the year and the sad fact that the Detroit Lions are not participating in the NFL playoffs for the first time in three seasons, most of the discussion surrounding the team is centered around the coaching staff. Shortly after the season, Lions coach Dan Campbell and former offensive coordinator John Morton parted ways, clearing the way for who would fill the position for the upcoming 2026 season. And while that is certainly going to be the most pressing question of the early stages of the offseason, it got me thinking about the rest of the coaching staff in Detroit. There are always a ton of moving parts this time of the year, but even more so this season, with eight head coaching vacancies (nine prior to the news that John Harbaugh is taking the New York Giants job). Besides all of the interviews taking place for the offensive coordinator role, there has been other news surrounding various members of the coaching staff, like defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard interviewing for the Miami Dolphins’ head coaching job, and tight ends coach Tyler Roel heading back to Iowa State to take their offensive coordinator role. You can track all of this here with Jeremy and Erik’s coaching tracker. Thats brings us to our question of the day – which current Lions’ position coach would hurt the most to lose? My answer: I am going to switch it up a bit and go with running backs coach Tashard Choice. There are certainly others one could argue, like offensive line coach and running game coordinator Hank Fraley, or linebackers coach Shaun Dion Hamilton, but I believe the Lions may have something special in Choice. As a former player in the league, Choice relates well to his players, and has been a fast-riser in the coaching ranks since his first role as graduate assistant at North Texas back in 2017. On top of his well-established relationship with Lions star running back Jahmyr Gibbs, Choice has the makings of someone who could end up being an assistant head coach in Detroit in the near-future. What about you? Which current position coach for the Lions would you least like to lose to another role? Let us know in the comments below. See More:

The Eagles are getting the search for a new offensive coordinator underway, and after revealing a bit of the process in their end-of-season press conference, they will hold their first interview on Friday with Falcons OC Zac Robinson. Robinson is a former NFL quarterback, who was drafted by the Patriots in the 2010 NFL Draft […] The Eagles are getting the search for a new offensive coordinator underway, and after revealing a bit of the process in their end-of-season press conference, they will hold their first interview on Friday with Falcons OC Zac Robinson. Robinson is a former NFL quarterback, who was drafted by the Patriots in the 2010 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma State. He bounced around for a few years, spending time with the Seahawks, Lions, and Bengals, before getting a job with Rams staff in 2019 as an assistant QB coach. Robinson was credited with the early development of Jared Goff, and then went on to serve as an assistant WR coach in 2020 when Cooper Kupp and Robert Woods were both just shy of a 1,000-yard season. From 2019 to 2023, he served in different roles, including pass-game coordinator, before leaving for Atlanta in 2024. He spent two years as the Falcons offensive coordinator, and in his first year in the role, his offense ranked sixth in yards per game (369.8), fifth in passing yards per game (239.3) and 10th in rushing yards per game (130.5). Quarterback Kirk Cousins set several franchise records, and Robinson helped transition rookie QB Michael Penix Jr. into the mix. BGN’s Dave Mangel’s offered a brief note about Robinson in his article about potential candidates: “Grabbing a branch off the Sean McVay or Kyle Shanahan coaching tree will always appeal to teams, but it’s no sure thing. His predecessor in that role was Zac Robinson, who spent two years as Falcons OC with seemingly no plan B after running the same half dozen plays out of the pistol formation with two different QBs.“ Robinson appears to be the first of what should be many interviews the Eagles will conduct over the coming weeks to fill their OC job. See More:

As soon as the final seconds ticked away on the Eagles’ Wild Card round loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, it was obvious the Eagles would be parting ways with offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo. Bleeding Green Nation has learned that the Eagles were inquiring about then-Ole Miss/now-LSU offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, Jr. weeks […] As soon as the final seconds ticked away on the Eagles’ Wild Card round loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, it was obvious the Eagles would be parting ways with offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo. Bleeding Green Nation has learned that the Eagles were inquiring about then-Ole Miss/now-LSU offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, Jr. weeks before the season was over. And though the Eagles “officially” announced Patullo would no longer be the team’s offensive coordinator in an announcement by Nick Sirianni on Tuesday, multiple SEC sources confirmed the Eagles were serious about Weis, Jr. before the announcement was public, enough to make arrangements for him to fly into Philadelphia to interview at the NovaCare Complex possibly as soon as next week. Weis is 32 years old and is the son of former Notre Dame head coach and New England Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis. Weis, Jr. is credited for developing Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart when he played for Ole Miss. This season, Weis, Jr. engineered the most proficient passing offense in college football, producing 4,700 yards (most in the nation), while averaging 489.7 yards a game in total offense, which was No. 2 in college football. Weis, Jr. has done wonders with Rebels’ quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, a backup who led Ferris State to the Division II national championship in 2024 and Ole Miss to the national semifinals this season after taking over for starter Austin Simmons, who was injured in Week 2 against Kentucky. Weis, Jr. was an offensive assistant coach with the 2017 Atlanta Falcons, who lost to the eventual Super Bowl LII champion Eagles, 15-10, in the Divisional Round of the playoffs. He also worked at Alabama in 2015 and 2016, where he met Lane Kiffin, who left Ole Miss this season to take the LSU job. Weis, Jr. could fit because he brings some innovation to what has turned into a stale Eagles’ offense, which grew more to reliant on talent to win 50-50 balls than scheming receivers open. Patullo has proven to be a quality NFL coach. He would not have lasted 17 years in the NFL if he was not. He was just not a very good NFL play caller as an offensive coordinator, which may have not been entirely his fault. The NFL is not a place to learn on the job, and that is the position Patullo was placed in the unenviable spot of doing this season. According to numerous sources and multiple reports, Patullo is well liked, and well respected, and can associate well with others if he remains on Sirianni’s staff when they hire a new OC. The revelation here is that no matter what the Eagles did this postseason, management apparently wanted Patullo out before the season ended, and general manager Howie Roseman is about being proactive, not about to wait before fixing what was an obvious problem. The Eagles have strong ties to the SEC. The Eagles also like to poach college football’s shiny new toy (see Chip Kelly), and right now, that is Weis, Jr., who merits NFL consideration and apparently is getting it. The Eagles have inquired to the Ole Miss coaching staff about Weis, Jr., numerous SEC sources have confirmed, and he is as much a viable candidate for the job as is Kevin Stefanski, former Cleveland Browns head coach and two-time Coach of the Year who is from Philadelphia, a graduate of St. Joe’s Prep and Penn, and former Eagles’ intern. Stefanski will most likely get one of the eight available NFL head coaching jobs left. Todd Monken, former Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator, is another possibility, but he will more than likely join John Harbaugh with the New York Giants and the chance to work with Dart. The Eagles have liked Kliff Kingsbury, the former Washington Commanders offensive coordinator, in the past. He was a candidate for the Eagles’ vacant OC job in 2024, a job eventually given to Kellen Moore, when Shane Steichen left to be the Indianapolis Colts’ head coach. Brian Daboll, former Giants’ head coach, has a history with Jalen Hurts at Alabama and is credited with the development of Buffalo Bills’ star Josh Allen. Daboll also coached Daniel Jones, who was a flop in his system, yet flourished once he got to Indianapolis under Steichen. Daboll also worked with Sirianni, when he was just starting out in Kansas City. Sirianni also worked with Charlie Weis, Sr. in Kansas City in 2010. Daboll also coached Saquon Barkley, when he was with the Giants, and DeVonta Smith, when he was at Alabama. Daboll may be the best fit, if the Eagles are looking for longevity at OC. After the Giants’ debacle, no one else may be willing to look at him as an NFL head coach again. Mike McDaniel, the former Miami Dolphins head coach, is considered a prime offensive mind, although he may not have gone to bat for Vic Fangio when he was the Dolphins’ defensive coordinator in 2023, after Dolphins’ players complained Fangio was coaching them too hard. Could Fangio and McDaniel co-exist in the same work environment? Roseman will undoubtedly go to Fangio for input how McDaniel ran things in Miami. See More: Philadelphia Eagles News