have signed news to look forward to 2024 season.

Given that Detroit was only thirty minutes away from representing the NFC in that game had they not played their worst half of football in the second half of the NFC Championship Game, it was likely difficult for some Lions fans to watch the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

But with the 2023 season now in the books, Lions fans can turn their full attention to 2024, which has a chance to be a special season in Detroit – one that hopefully ends with them playing in the last football game of the year in New Orleans.

Detroit offers plenty of reasons to be excited. The Lions should make it back to the NFC Championship Game the following season, and perhaps even sooner, for the following five reasons:

1. Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes

Acquiring talent and developing talent. That’s the core of any consistently good organization establishing their roster the right way. Both Holmes and Campbell have demonstrated proficient in those areas.

Just take a look at some of the young talent that Holmes has added to this football squad over the last three cycles via the NFL Draft, and who now form its core: Pene Sewell, Alim McNeill, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jameson Williams, Alidian Hutchinson, Kerby Joseph, Sam LaPorta, Brian Branch, and Jahmir Gibbs.

Shrewd free-agency acquisitions by Holmes included linebacker Alex Anzalone, running back David Montgomery, center Graham Glasgow, and defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson.

Over the past three off seasons, Holmes has hit a lot more than he has missed, which should pique the interest of Lions supporters in what he will provide to the team in the upcoming three months.

Campbell is a wonderful fit for this team and city, having drastically transformed Detroit’s culture. These players will run through a brick wall for him, and it shouldn’t be taken lightly. He’s put together a terrific staff that’s proven they can develop young players.

The GM-HC connection is the most crucial in the organization and Holmes and Campbell are in lockstep about what they want this team to be, and what they need to get there.