'You guys are unbelievable': Watch the Lions' locker room celebration after win vs. Bucs
Another playoff win means another Detroit Lions postgame victory locker room speech from Dan Campbell.
The Lions knocked out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 31-23, at home in the divisional round of the playoffs to advance to the NFC championship game against the San Francisco 49ers. Following the win, Campbell went through the full gauntlet of emotions as he congratulated his squad on knocking off another hot team and coming two games closer to the ultimate goal of winning a Super Bowl Trophy.
"This started a long time ago, you're built for this," Campbell said while holding back tears. "You're (expletive) built for this, man. And look at what you guys did, you went out there, and it's another (expletive) hot team that we knocked off. It's the next hot team that you knock off.
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"You know how hard it is to win in this (expletive) league in the playoffs? Do you understand what you're doing right now, what you're capable of? That's two, all right, that's two. We got two to go."
Do you understand what we're capable of?#AllGrit pic.twitter.com/ZvFbs7Crwi
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 22, 2024
Penei Sewell, the Lions' immovable object on the offensive line, also had a postgame video of him running down the tunnel to the locker room screaming, and saying the Lions still have two more games to win.
YEAH DETROIT pic.twitter.com/qFjTVfKUCl
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 22, 2024
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Derrick Barnes and Josh Reynolds, two of Detroit's heroes on Sunday, also provided a breakdown of their big plays during the game. Reynolds talked through his opening touchdown that gave the Lions a 10-3 lead early, while Barnes broke down the game-winning interception on a Baker Mayfield pass, allowing the Lions to kneel out the clock. Barnes said his interception, the first of his NFL career, was the result of good coaching. His game-winning play, along with four tackles, earned him the team's Player of the Game honor.
"Coach called a great play — executing," the Lions linebacker said with a smile. "All week he was (saying) 'pack them seams, pack them seams, man'. This is crazy. First NFL interception, this is wild."
Reynolds also had a lot of praise for his coordinator, Ben Johnson, who he said schemed up the wide-open touchdown.
"You know that boy Ben, he know his stuff," Reynolds said while running up the locker room. "(He) called a great play against — Woo! — that coverage and we went to work. Let's go baby."
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"Pack them seams"@derrickbarnes21 breaks down his game-winning play pic.twitter.com/ebh3oMwouS
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 22, 2024
We went to work 😤@J_Rey_11 breaks down his TD catch 🎥 pic.twitter.com/4DZr9sG6Jr
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 22, 2024
The Lions also posted a compilation of players celebrating on Ford Field after the game, captioned "What a time to be alive," which started with a Sewell scream and finished with him promising two more games to the fans.
What a time to be alive pic.twitter.com/opQzug3VwJ
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 22, 2024
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Watch Lions locker room celebration after win vs. Buccaneers