Lions HC Dan Campbell Offers Pat McAfee A Coaching Job.

joining us now is a man who took the world by storm with one press conference man who was introduced as the head coach of the detroit lions sent the world into a tizzy what is this man talking about gnawing kneecaps getting back up doing it again a man that has since that day put together an incredible coaching staff made some moves revitalized in energy in a city for a team that was potentially dying off joining us right now head coach of the lions mcdc dan [Applause] what's going on guys pleasure to be here coach you're electrifying you know it i know it the world now knows it thank you so much for joining us shane leckler good friend of mine sent me a text immediately following your opening press conference in said uh hey dan was my roommate in college he is electric he's a big fan as is the world um before we get started we normally have a guy that is our producer and i think we're the only show that he's listened to in the all 50 states that has a detroit lions die hard fan as a member of our show he's on vacation this week when he heard you were coming on the show he was so heartbroken he made a video i'd like to lead off with his question dan if that's okay yeah let's do it nice foxy yeah foxy oh my god he is gonna hey he loved it he just lost it right there please run that don't sleep on the lions in this pat car been a weird year why not the lions this year one day will be our euro someday that's why we're still here they're still gonna go ten and six and one player again this draft this is the turning point ten and six i'm gonna play off game this is the year i get to see a playoff win pat uh we're going to go 10 and 6 in a play now until the first game i have hope 10-6 playoff win [Music] coach it's an absolute honor to be speaking with you i think a lot of lions fans want to know just how this one's going to be different all right it seems like every three four years the lions get a new head coach it seems like the rebuilding process has been happening my entire life 26 years old and i've never seen a playoff win for the detroit lions so i want to know how you and your coaching staff plans to make this one different so that someday i get to see my lions go ten and six and win a point uh coach obviously i assume you hear that a lot and i feel like in your press conference you were speaking to those people but what is how do you turn that place into a winning you know organization coach yeah look first of all i think i love foxy man i tell you what i love the optimism that he brings um look i i would say this to me the short answer is is sheila fordham if you want hope she's the one who's bringing the hope because this all started with her you know she took over ownership in in the summer and she she knew exactly what she wanted she wanted uh she wanted a collaborative effort starting at the top and and ultimately man in the in the simplest terms you would say she wanted us to work as a team up top like a legitimate team up top between her and rodwood the president myself brad holmes and man let's let's do this thing together where everybody knows we're all in the same boat we're all wrong the same way um and knowing that those players downstairs they'll they will feed off of that and they'll understand that and they'll fall right in line like one of the things that it always bothered me as next player uh was at times where you're being preached to about being a team and it's all about being unselfish and working as one and no egos and yet it's not happening at the top and man that's the biggest killer of any team is when it's not working at the top and you got ownership telling you what you got to do and you can't do this you got a president telling you you can't do this you can't spend this money you can't and and and that and then having a gm and a head coach or not on the same page well that this thing has started exactly where it should start to have success that started with sheila she wants this to be teamwork she wants us all working together she set the tone she made the hires and here we are man so that's that's the starting point you're 100 right by the way you can always uh you're probably getting a call from the gm right now you guys are probably making a play probably get off of mcafee i was sent a message by the way uh last night about things i i literally you're not allowed to talk about and i was basically in the message was like uh please do not put him in a position to kind of break an nfl rule in this entire thing but whenever you think about a gm and a head coach being on on different pages you can kind of tell by the way an organization operates from the outside you might not be able to hear it from behind the scenes you might not know what's going on behind the scenes but watching an organization you can tell whether or not everybody's on the same page you were asked about that literally just two days ago and you dropped another gem it was another a true alpha knows when to concede for the betterment of the group your mindset in coaching have you always been this way that true alpha have you grown through that like through miami and new orleans and how have you become this human with this mindset that you have right now well no look i think that um i think being a good leader involves being a good listener you got to be able to listen to other other people's opinions and you got to take it for what it is and you know what you may not agree with it and it may not be the right answer but you take it in any way and you listen to it and at the end of the day you make your decision off of that and you don't always agree with them and you you'll do things that are going to upset people because you're making a decision they don't agree with but it's my job and i always felt like if i was able to get in this seat man that was one of the most important things is man have trust in me have faith in me that if you hire me i'm gonna listen i'm gonna listen to everybody man i'm listening to brad when you're talking about personnel i'm listening to ray agnew i'm listening to john dorsey man these guys that's what they do that's that's those are the things that they really excel at that's their superpowers man and so for me why would i not listen to them even if it's my coaches maybe feel a little bit the other way well you know what i need to flesh that out i need to know why you know what are the reasons why am i not seeing this correctly and look the alpha comment was really i wasn't directing that just it myself i was saying that that's brad too brad's an alpha that's our coaching staff i mean let me say this about our coaching staff one of the reasons i made the hires that i did with these guys i know you'll probably end up asking this was because just coming out of this covet i wanted to make sure we had more flexibility with the roster and if these coaches need to play maybe a couple of games so you know not everybody's thinking that way [Laughter] you are the best okay i'll tell you antoine randall well he can get out there and swing the ball i mean he can do whatever you need him to do did in your opening press conference um by the way hey hey hey listen best of all time i i there is or none there is no close second okay there is no close second it was the best press conference of all time now you pissed off a lot of people that i assume have not liked you for your entire life so you just kind of expected that happens to me as well but in your opening press conference you said a lot of things that i was like kind of listening to and trying to latch on to learn as much as i could about you you said you know at the dolphins you had a chance to learn those mistakes you make as a rookie head coach or whatever what were some of those and do they involve running oklahoma drills on wednesdays and thursdays with professional athletes [Laughter] but in clarification it was never the oklahoma drill it was one-on-ones with all the teammates watching that's all it was oh one-on-ones hey that got mis-marketed then because absolutely all of us ex-players were like [ __ ] that guy absolutely it was not oklahoma it was simply 101 pass rush versus a an offensive tackle pass protecting it was a receiver 101 running around the red zone versus the quarterback that happens every day teams surround them yeah that was all listen we didn't ever get oklahoma drill okay good news uh what did you learn we could we would what did you learn what were some of the mistakes you think and what do people not expect whenever they become a head coach you hear like chuck pagano for instance he was one of the best player coaches uh probably that he had ever seen baltimore he was at the u he'd been around and then he said you become a head coach and it's just like you you barely it's like not even a part of it anymore what were some of those rookie mistakes you got a chance to get out of the way in miami that now you know and can adjust for going into detroit yeah well look i think the first thing is just uh managing your time that was hard for me um because when you it's just what what chuck said i got a lot of respect for chuck by the way um he he's a hell of a coach but but just the fact that man you you sit down and you're like here we go man i'm gonna dive into this opponent offensively defensively special teams you know dig my teeth into this and all of a sudden you're like hey man you got your media session right now all right all right you know you go run down there and then the next thing you know hey listen we need to work on this chart for the plane we need to make sure we got the guys sitting where you want them first class who's right all right i got it i got it all right hey listen can you make this call uh you know just there's a couple of these sponsors that'd be good if we reached out all right got and so by the end of the day you're sitting down it's 10 o'clock at night you're just about to start on the opponent you know and uh that was one it's just man being able to make sure that you make the most of your time two was this got hard for me is man not to micromanage you feel like you're trying to do everything or you want to do everything and you just can't do it and that's why now it was different because i've gotten hired as the interim and so you're taking this over uh whereas like this time around i'm able to hire my coaches and so that's why i made the hires i did because these people i can trust these guys you know these are my hires and i know exactly who i'm hiring i know what they're capable of i know that you know like i i have all the confidence in the world that anthony lynn is going to he's going to put a good game plan together he's going to have the offensive role and ag is gonna have the defense role and dave phipps special teams and then i'll be able to just kind of go in and implement what i want and kind of any any little tweaks i want to do to it but i don't have to be involved in trying to hey how do we how do i really build this game plan and those things uh but i'll tell you this is the one that haunts me this day that i'll never forget is we were playing at buffalo and uh and and it was right before halftime we're getting beat and it's one of those where man if we can score particularly a touchdown you're going to feel much better going in at halftime give you a little momentum and uh it was one of those man we dump it down to lamar miller and he's running you know you'd love for him to go down and you know but but he didn't he's trying to make a play and he goes and he runs he runs he gets tackled and the clock's still running we have a timeout in our pocket we actually have two timeouts in our pocket and we're playing rex ryan buffalo and so i knew boy he loved zero blitz and down in the red zone and i just didn't even want to give him that chance the problem was i had never told my freaking coaching staff that hey we may just go hurry up to the line back in the red zone and see if we can catch them off guard yeah so they're all waiting for a timeout and i'm yelling hurry up and so we're trying to get to a play tannehill's trying to get to the best option where's the mic what are we doing you know and it was a freaking cluster man and long story short we ended up going for it on fourth and one got stuff we go in with no points at halftime we get our ass kicked and i i put that on me that was my fault man 100 you learn a lesson man so whenever you're talking about those situations like situational football right we've all everybody that's never been in the nfl knows that the media always goes hey patriot way okay the patriot way good situational football knowing what to do in right times working hard and everything like that situational football i do believe is a massive part of the head coaching like requirements now we got i think and i'm gonna say something i i assume you're gonna agree with me i'm not sure though i think a lot of people they have the stats as an excuse right i think a lot of head coaches almost and you don't have to say this i'll say this but the stats or the data told us that we should go for it so if it doesn't work it's not the person it's the data really but with the data you can make much more informed decisions how will you manage that because it feels like the nfl is becoming a fully analytics world i'm not sure you're that type of guy just by looking outside in but you seem like a guy who's definitely going to take that information how will you make those decisions and you see yourself being more of an aggressive person or kind of a uh a neutral gut i don't strike you as the numbers guys right no yeah yeah i just whenever i heard you i was just like you know what i'm not 100 sure this guy is just going to be listening strictly to the analytics guy i just kind of feel like i got through addition and subtraction no it it's funny that you bring that up first of all if you're if you want to know how i'm going to handle one of those when if i go for it on fourth and we get stuff then they say man you know you regret that decision i'm going to be like well f yeah i mean we didn't get it what do you want me to say had i not maybe so it's easy hindsight to go back and say my god man i wish i wish i wouldn't have gone for that because we got stuffed but i think analytics has got to be a tool and and i do think it's an important tool to use but you know as well as i do in the comment you just made that's fine it's all fine that the numbers say when to go for it when did i go for it when to go for two but tell me what part of the game we're in how's our defense plan who's the quarterback who's on the the other sideline um and and then then let's decide what we want to do so you know if everything is lined up properly and everything looks good and it's in its even teens and and you feel good about where you're at then yeah you go by the numbers you know i think there's validity in that but man to just say you're blindly going to lean on analytics it makes no sense not in this sport it just doesn't man there's there's a physical there's a mental element to this game that's different than any other and uh so it to me it's just a tool it's a tool to have in your toolbox if you need it let's talk about the mental part of the game um the leader of a team is the quarterback okay and i got the email all right so uh i got the message qb one though for a team that you're coaching all right what are you looking for out of qb one quarterback that's going to be a part of your team like are you because we all know we're in the game the quarterback is immediately the leader of the team whether he likes it or not like that is just how it is the payment structures that way he touches the ball every single game we go as you are every single play we go as you go what is your mindset with the quarterback qb1 and what do you expect out of that person to lead your team and uh this is going to be a a reload is what we called it whenever truck became as supposed to rebuild it was a reload so you guys are going to probably take some lumps here i would assume at some point through this thing but what are you looking for out of qb1 going forward yeah i would say you're looking for a guy who's a winner you're looking for a guy who's competitive i think that uh you're looking for a guy who knows how to calm the storm you know when things aren't going uh great or not going your way and uh it's just you and the other 10 in the huddle he's somebody that man can keep everybody just on an even keel keep them lined up keep them focused keep them um you know build them up with confidence man and to to let them know when they look at him in the eyes they know this guy's ready to go and he's going to do his job as long as i do my job i think those are the big things man i'm not worried about a guy that you know hey we need this guy to go out there and throw it 50 times to win the game for us to me that's not fair to a quarterback and there's very few that can do it in this league um and so i mean i i think the the guy needs to be tough and he doesn't have to be a rah-rah tough run around you know but there needs to be a quiet toughness about this guy um you know hey are you your team is going to resemble your team resembles the coach like that that's just how it goes i am so excited to see this you know what i mean you are a spark plug of energy into the coaching ranks that i don't think we've ever seen anything like you before i mean we have i guess there's been coaches that have been like this but just like it feels like with the coaching staff you're building and the moves you're making at the franchise you're at this feels like this could be something that's absolutely legendary coach what do you have ty coach you obviously had a long and successful career playing do you find that it's uh it's easier because you're still around the game every day or are there days where you're still just like oh [ __ ] i'd love to put the pads on and get out there today with the boys crack some skulls well you always have that urge [Laughter] but but reality sets in and i'll be honest with you i would say probably about five years after i retired is when i was done oh the first five years after retirement man it was real difficult very difficult because you're just like you know particularly when you get some of these young players your coach and you're like man i know i could step in right now like you get out of the way let me show exactly what you got to do you know so it was but since then reality sets in and uh you realize all right man your time is definitely passed you know um but there's always just in the back of your head here's what you never lose is that competitive spirit right that man what that drives you um and makes you who you are you know and and pretty soon what you start doing is living through your players right you you uh man you get excited for them you want to give them all the tools to put in their toolbox and to have success and and so that that competitive spirit never leaves the body leaves but not the competitive spirit i think a plane just landed on our building there coach i apologize for looking up yeah i think we might be dead here in a few moments it's been great having a good last conversation with this plane comes down here who told you you should coach did you always know you're going to get in the coach with someone because your coaching path is an interesting one i mean this is a very interesting one uh who told you to get into it did you always feel like you're going to and when did you know like okay this is going to be good for me because now you're only one of 32 in the world at what you do so congrats to that yeah i well let me say this first of all i swore up and down uh pat you can probably attest to this but man coming into the you're coming into the the locker room i know when i was with the giants been drafted i'm coming in and at 6 30 in the morning and coaches got bed head coming out of their office and sleeping there and i'm like i'd never be a coach i would never it's ridiculous you know but i'll never forget i'll tell you when i kind of caught the bug when i really caught the bug was uh i want to say it was 2000 and it was a it was a small um football camp youth football camp and it was i couldn't even tell you where it was i just know it was in pennsylvania and uh and so buddy of mine invited me you know there was a number of us from the giants that went out there and so they said hey just you know fit in where wherever you want here wherever you think you can help just kind of you know work with the kids and these were all teenagers um but man they're doing a one-on-one they're doing a one-on-one session they have tight ends and then they have kind of these outside linebackers and this tied in he was man he was your classic no talent [Laughter] i mean he had no business being out there you know he but he's gonna give everything he's got and the kid across from him is about a foot taller he's got about you know a foot of length on him with his arms uh he runs like the wind he's he's strong he's aggressive he's explosive and so their coach over there just just told him hey these 101 just get over there and him the guy don't even let him off the line but that basically you're doing one-on-one route running but so he just he never even had to cover because he just stick this kid at the line and uh so i watch a couple of these you know and i'm like man this isn't even fair and and the kid he doesn't even know what he's doing he's raw but so i just pulled the kid aside i said listen next time this happens or he's going to line up over you and i said he's going to stick you with his outside hand he's going to stick you right in the chest and grab a hold of you he said he's already you he knows what he's going to do he knows exactly what you're going to do so here's what i want you to do i want you to step as hard as you can with your outside foot and i want you to throw your head and shoulders to the outside with that foot so violently that that you almost knock your freaking head off your shoulders all right it's whiplash i want you to do that sorry because what will happen is he's going to move that way and he's going to miss when he tries to punch you he's not be ready for it and then i want you to dip back inside rip right under him get to your route you get to the top of route 10 yards all right and i want you to break down i want you to snap your head to the inside just like i told you on the outside so hard that it almost gives you whiplash he's going to be trying to run to catch up he's going to bite on that move and he'll start running to the basic while you're breaking out and i'll be damned that kid did exactly exactly to a t what i said now we've worked on a couple of things there too i just kind of showed him what i was talking about but his next graph he went up there did exactly what i told him to do and he crushed the kid i mean he crushed him and the look on the kid's face i'll never forget it man to this day the look on the kid's face he just i mean you can't replace it it was one of the greatest feelings ever and i felt so good for him and he was like you know i can do this you know i i can do it i got something now i can work with and that kid turned out to be kyle rudolph who is a free agent currently takes me out coach uh being from pittsburgh you just remind me of bill cower so i automatically love you i just wanted to let you know that um but you talked about what you learned being the interim coach in miami but what did you learn your five years being under sean payton who's one of the best coaches in the nfl what's the one thing that you learned from sean that you're going to take into the to the alliance yeah i i would say um i would say the ability to um to put players in the best position have success uh i would say being able to use the the roster everybody that goes to the game all 53 or 55 as of last year if you're going to the game we're going to use you for what you do well like i use this term super powers man i love the avengers right so um but the super powers man what do you do well and i don't care you're a receiver and all you you're a blocking receiver and maybe you're not going to be the greatest front runner ever but yet you're tough you're physical we'll do play action pass off of that and just throw you a bone every once in a while you'll be wide open but in the meantime i want you to kick the crap out of some of these safeties and corners man that's your job that's what you do and you do it well you do it better than our number one or number two receiver well guess what we gotta roll for you you're gonna play 15 plays plus special teams you know we're going to put our half back man we're going to put you in position to have some sets you're going to run choice routes on real linebackers man we'll put you out in the slot and let you go to work if we think they're going to walk that linebacker out um you know tight end's no different but but let's let's put guys in the best position had success sean did it better than anybody else anybody that played the saints would tell you man it was a nightmare to play us because of so many personnel groups we'd roll in and out man we used it was non-stop rolling of personnel groups but yet those guys we put out on the field we asked them to do things they did very well and and very few times did we ask them do things that they weren't as good at and i i thought that was one of the best things that sean did uh just from his time and look he knows how to relate with players man he gets it 100 and then let me go back to what you said pat yeah because you kind of you kind of asked this and i and i didn't answer i'll tell you here's the other thing i learned that is important man i i would say until i got to sean as a coach i would tell you i was more conservative more of a conservative type thinker as it goes to this game much much more traditional you know you run the ball you you know you kind of i don't want to say milk the clock that yet ball control and and uh man it's third down you know you you're trying to get the first that's fourth and two we're punting and all those things um and you're trying to be smart and you're allowing the opponent to to beat themselves and look that's still a part of who i am but i'll tell you this man you your eyes get opened uh sean now was on the other spectrum he was very aggressive but i man if there's anything i did learn to from him just from from that side of it is look you you want to throw some defenses off there's a time to be aggressive man and and use your special teams and use offense and try to get these defenses on their heels but so i would tell you i became i'm a little bit more of an aggressive thinker just overall being with sean coach i can't thank you enough for your time i got one more question for you here um did you know that on this day in 1986 i'm sure you did actually metallica's master of puppets was released i've heard your die hard metallica guy is the mcdc name tag then because it's a long top ac dc do you hate it do you love it we gotta i feel like we potentially offended you after finding out you're a diode metallica guy and we call you mcdc no no no no listen i love classic rock as well i have zero problem with that yes i am a big metallic fan and uh just for just so everybody knows look i love metallica i love classic rock and i love classic country those are my genres man um but i've got zero problem with the mcdc and let me say this before you go off that all right because i had put serious thought into this since i was hiring my staff i was thinking about hiring you to see if you would like to be you know uh our special teams coach and and then i thought you know what just i know you're doing this radio it softened you up a little bit all right true alphas know when to hang them up ladies and gentlemen [Applause] hey thank you coach good luck up there man thank you you guys have a good one you too yeah he's the man best [ __ ] awesome dude mcdc bro hey i really you know you i like whenever people call me a meathead they think i don't i think he's a deep thinker i think so too i think he's a deep thinker who has like the uh the alpha mentality but i i bet you he he probably listens to rogue and i'd assume there's like a d he then he gets into i think he's a deep thinking guy i think he actually is and what if he has a little bit of success in detroit are you talking about greatest coach of all time potentially yes

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Published: Wed Mar 03 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Quirky_Tzirky]

What an amazing interview.

Just got finished watching it and I'm so excited. Part of me just wants him to succeed because he's so genuine and honest. I'm excited to see how the team takes on MCDC's personality.

[u/MikeyNg]

Those "superpowers" references tells me that he gets it. He's not here to be the smartest guy in the room. He's here to put people - players AND coaches - in the best possible position for success because their success is the team's success.

He's totally okay being the "meathead" who hopefully will be laughing all the way to the Super Bowl.

Like - imagine if Detroit puts together a decent playoff run in a couple of years. You're going to have a ton of "pundits" talking about how lucky Detroit is because there's no way that someone that speaks like Coach Campbell could possibly be smarter than they are.

[u/lolwut_17]

We have the coolest coach in the NFL and it’s not even debatable.

[u/KM107]

I watched this entire interview looking for something to not like. I tried to be Carlos monarez or how ever you spell his name.

Couldn’t do it! I heard so much that I liked it was unbelievable. All I can think is this is it boys, this is the dude to turn this ship around.

[u/PlatinumMode]

That was an interesting comment about the quarterback. I guess the lions told him he’s not allowed to ask about Goff?

[u/LuckyMonth4566]

I love how all his responses are so long and in depth and Pat doesn't ever stop him. Dan commands the room so well and people cant help but listen.

[u/SharkBaitOohAhAh2]

I really like DC, he comes off as quite genuine and funny.

But I worry a bit that at the end of the day what they hire you for is what they end up firing you for.

I think if things don’t go swimmingly well for him, it has the potential to unravel really badly.

We’ll see I guess. It’s still the honeymoon period, so I am still moving forward with the notion that we shouldn’t know what to expect.

[u/JimyFatBoy]

I'm so pumped! I love Dan and I can't wait to see where he leads this team. Now if we can turn our third down bell into For Whom The Bell Tolls, we will be on our way to greatness.

[u/AWokenBeetle]

Why do I get friendly Cowher vibes from DC ??