Dan Campbell: It’s a long season, Lions need to get better

Lions head coach Dan Campbell saw a lot that his team needs to improve in Thursday night’s 41-31 loss to the Bills.

“We’ve got a lot of room to grow, and that’s encouraging,” Campbell said. “We’ve just got to clean up a lot of things on defense right now, particularly in the back end. . . . It wasn’t good enough.”

Campbell expressed optimism about the way the Lions can use their extra three days after playing on Thursday night to prepare for Week 3 against the Jets.

“It’s early, we’re in Week 2, we’ve got a long season, and the most important thing is that we get better,” Campbell said. “We just need to get better than we were today in all three phases. We need to play better against the Jets, and I think we will. We can, and we certainly will.”

Campbell credited Bills head coach Joe Brady for having his team ready to play.

“They got after us and we didn’t play good enough and we didn’t coach good enough. That falls on me,” Campbell said. “It certainly needed to be a lot cleaner than that.”