{"id":15447,"date":"2024-12-29T04:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T04:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2024-12-29T04:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T04:15:13","slug":"george-kittle-has-nothing-but-respect-for-dan-campbell-ahead-of-49ers-lions-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15447","title":{"rendered":"George Kittle Has Nothing But Respect for Dan Campbell Ahead of 49ers-Lions Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers will go head to head for\u00a0Monday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0this week, but tight end George Kittle is kicking things off with nothing but love, at least as it relates to Lions coach Dan Campbell.<\/p>\n

Asked for his impression on Campbell’s style of coaching, the Pro-Bowler offered a really admirable and extensive take.<\/p>\n

“I think when you have a head coach who had played and the way that he played, too\u2014he was a very gritty, kind of a nasty player but it was beloved by all of his teammates\u2014I think it’s really easy to play for guys like that,” Kittle told\u00a049ers on SI<\/em>‘s Grant Cohn. “He seems like a guy who they have hard practices, makes ’em grind, makes ’em earn every second. But you want people that like to hold you to a standard and that’s a standard that they’ve created and he’s created since they’ve been there and it’s very awesome to see that the Lions have gotten to that. But it’s our job to, you know, take ’em down a little bit.”<\/p>\n

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