Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell may live to regret the comments he made to Kevin O'Connell after the Los Angeles Rams dumped the Minnesota Vikings out of the playoffs on Monday night

The Rams hung a photo of Dan Campbell’s “two weeks” message to Kevin O’Connell in their locker room, using it as motivation for Monday

Dan Campbell's message to Kevin O'Connell after the NFL's regular-season finale will not come through after the Rams end Minnesota's season

He was prescient. Because the Detroit Lions did indeed motivate the Los Angeles Rams to beat the Minnesota Vikings, all because he told Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell “I’ll see you in two weeks” after their Week 18 game. That meant Campbell assumed the Vikings would beat the Rams.

The Rams have plenty of bulletin board material for Monday's playoff game, but none of it has come from the Vikings.

The Vikings are coming off of a 31-9 loss at the hands of the Detroit Lions that gave Detroit the NFC North title, sealing coach O'Connell's team's round one playoff fate. On Friday, it was revealed that the Rams are using a postgame quote from Lions coach Dan Campbell as motivation ahead of their showdown with the Vikings.

The Lions were built well enough that Goff didn't need to be the best quarterback in the league for them to advance. But even this kind of a Maserati needs a driver who won’t plow into traffic.

There has been a rumor going around in recent days that suggests Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell and former offensive coordinator Ben Johnson may have had some friction before his exit. Johnson addressed that on Thursday.

"It’s humbling," Holmes said of the playoff loss, "but I won’t allow it to discredit all of the positives that we were able to accomplish this season."

Lions QB Jared Goff bristled last January at suggestions he was a product of Ben Johnson's offense, joking, 'I'm just the luckiest guy in the world.'

After putting up MVP-caliber numbers in three seasons with Ben Johnson, Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions are facing a new challenge going into 2025 having