Here is the opening statement from new Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell during his introductory news conference on Thursday in Allen Park (provided by the team):
“Hello, everybody. I’m excited to be here, beyond belief. What I’m going to have to do is make sure that I contain myself, so you may get a couple things where I’m completely out of the screen because I’m moving. I’ll do my best. But I’ll say this first, just in regards to the head coach search, how I ended up here, one of the things would be that I told my agent, Rick Smith, ‘Make sure that they think I’m Matt Campbell.