Dan Campbell Feels 'Indebted' to Sheila Hamp

As a result, Campbell expressed his appreciation for Hamp and Chris Spielman for selecting him following their interview.

"I’ve had about seven of these, I’ve had like seven head coaching interviews and they all start the same way, ‘We’re looking for a leader of men. We don’t care about this or this, we want a leader of men. We want somebody that can stand in front of the room, they can command respect. They’re good dudes off the field and they play hard on the field.’ All this stuff, and at the end of the day I’m like, and it’s no disrespect to anybody who’s been hired because they’re good men too," Campbell said. "But there’s so many times like, ‘No, you’re not hiring what you’re talking about. What you’ve got is an unbelievable offensive coordinator.’ And he’s probably gonna be a head coach, but you’re going off of X’s and O’s, or offense or defense or whatever, and you’re not going off of what you’re saying you’re going off of. And Sheila, to a T, she knew what she was looking for and she took a shot on me.”

Movie clip inspires defense

Campbell's pre-game speech ahead of the Lions' Thursday Night Football showdown with the Green Bay Packers has made its waves. In the video, which circulated during Jared Goff's appearance in 'Quarterback,' the head coach is shown imploring his offense to be ready to go for it on every fourth-down.

During his conversation with Liucci, Campbell noted that the week leading up to that Packers showdown also featured a movie clip that he thought would epitomize Detroit's defensive effort.

The clip, from the 1992 film 'Last of the Mohicans', showcases the Huron tribe ambushing the British forces. The nature of their attack, paired with the relentlessness of the tribe, is how Campbell wanted his defense to play.

“The Huron come out of nowhere with the tomahawks. I shouwed them that and I said, ‘Defense, this is what I want it to look like. I don’t give a s**t, you just come out with the tomahawks and just swing and hit whatever you can as long as you can," Campbell said. "That’s all that is required, that’s it. You just give them hell for 60 minutes and make them hurt if they do get something. Offense, you’ve got to go win this game, the onus is on you. If it doesn’t work out like we want it to, then you’ve got to pull the slack for us, you’ve got to tighten the rope here. So they knew that I wanted to be aggressive."

Campbell's love for movies and rock music has been well-documented, and the Packers game was just one example of him utilizing a clip or a song to motivate his team.