{"id":38985,"date":"2025-12-03T23:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=38985"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:39:32","slug":"lions-star-addresses-growing-criticism-before-cowboys-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=38985","title":{"rendered":"Lions Star Addresses Growing Criticism Before Cowboys Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2170897350-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2170897350-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2170897350-1.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2170897350-1.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Lions Star Addresses Growing Criticism Before Cowboys Game\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Detroit Lions pretty much have to win out the remainder of their season, now that they\u2019re a 7-5 team and in a division with strong contenders. As much as it\u2019s painful to say, the Chicago Bears are shoo-ins to make the playoffs and sitting at No. 1 in the NFC North and entire NFC. The Green Bay Packers, who the Lions lost to this season, are No. 2 in the NFC North.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions are coming up on an important game against the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys on Thursday, December 4, and heading into the event, there\u2019s plenty of finger-pointing going on. It\u2019s never nice to point fingers, but when teams are losing, especially in strange ways like the Lions, it\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>By \u201cstrange ways,\u201d this author means the excessive fourth-down calls. Addressing those after the team\u2019s loss to the Packers, Lions head coach Dan Campbell said he doesn\u2019t plan to stop the aggressive play-calling. \u201cNo, a lot of it depends on where the game is at, too,\u201d he said. \u201cWhere the game\u2019s at, the opponent, how your defense is playing. Do you feel like you have a really good handle on what you\u2019re going to get from that defense. Who you\u2019re going to and all of those things.\u201d He continued, \u201cGoing into it we liked those plays. So no, I wouldn\u2019t say necessarily that\u2019s going to have an effect on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Detroit Lions Player Opens Up About Dropped Play<\/h2>\n<p>One of the most talked-about plays of the Lions and Packers game was when on fourth-down in the second-half, Lions quarterback Jared Goff threw to wide receiver Jameson Williams. The pass was dropped, and that was pretty much the end of Detroit\u2019s chances to win.<\/p>\n<p>While some pointed fingers at Goff, Williams is taking the heat. He opened up about the incident on Monday, December 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, that\u2019s a drop. That\u2019s why I did all that after the play,\u201d he said. \u201cNo matter where the ball\u2019s at, as a receiver, you\u2019ve got to make plays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s where he stood up for Goff, stating, \u201cThe blame doesn\u2019t go on the quarterback. It goes to us. I\u2019m saying it\u2019s my fault because I dropped the ball. He gave me the opportunity. I\u2019ve just got to make the best of the opportunity and move the sticks for us. I move the sticks right there, it could be a whole different game for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Detroit Lions Talk Facing the Dallas Cowboys<\/h2>\n<p>Williams also said that he and the Lions are prepared for the Cowboys. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen these guys two of my first three years in the league. We know what they can do and know these defensive back\u2019s tendencies. We know how to attack them. That\u2019s a huge shout-out to the coaches. They put in extra work for us and tell us what they see and we do extra work, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s heartwarming that Williams wants to take the blame and take some slack off Goff. He really has no reason to apologize, of course. He\u2019s notched 706 yards and six touchdowns this season, according to ESPN research, and is a lifeline for the team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions are fielding criticism after their loss to the Packers, and ahead of their Dallas Cowboys game, they&#8217;re addressing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit-lions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lions Star Addresses Growing Criticism Before Cowboys Game - Breaking News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=38985\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lions Star Addresses Growing Criticism Before Cowboys Game - 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