After four years as Ben Johnson’s boss, Lions head coach Dan Campbell is preparing to coach against Johnson on Sunday when Johnson and the Bears come to town. And one thing that Johnson became known for as offensive coordinator in Detroit was trick plays.

But Campbell said trick plays are the least of his concern as he gets ready for Johnson’s offense. Instead, Campbell said he just wants his defense to play fundamentally sound football and not worry about getting fooled.

“You’ll practice one or two things — you do for every opponent — but I don’t really care about trick plays,” Campbell said. “Let’s just handle the meat and potatoes of an offense, a defense, what we think they’re gonna hang their hat on. Let’s stop that first. Let’s worry about that, let’s make sure we’re all on point,

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