ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) coach Dan Campbell stepped on a riser and stood behind a new, at the team's training facility.This is a huge podium, Campbell said Monday before the team's first training camp practice.Expectations are big for the Lions, too. is coming off its best season in generations, earning two playoff victories in one postseason for the first time since winning the 1957 NFL title.ADVERTISEMENT The Lions are one of that haven't reached the Super Bowl, but they're No. 4 among favorites to reach the championship Alex Verdugo Jersey game, according to .It's easy to see what oddsmakers like about Detroit.The Lions have won 20 of their last 27 games in the regular season and are coming off a closely contested lo s in the at San Francisco after leading the 49ers by 17 points in the third quarter.General manager Brad Holmes made many moves to improve the team's chances of taking another step, strengthening weakne ses on both sides of the ball in , a and the . Holmes also cut down potential distractions by giving quarterback , receiver and offensive tackle Penei Sewell new contracts.We know we can win a Super Bowl, said. "We have the team. We have the coaches. We have everything we need in this building Craig Kimbrel Jersey to win a Super Bowl. Thats our goal. Thats our focus."Everything we do from here out moving forward is to get that Super Bowl.If a Lions player said that a couple years ago, the response would've likely been laughter.Campbell's first team lost 13 games in 2021 a fourth straight season with double-digit lo ses and had setbacks in six of the first seven games the following year.Soon after Lions owner refused to panic during the rough start in 2022, Kevin Plawecki Jersey insisting she was confident in Holmes and Campbell, a franchise that has struggled to get it right for decades found a groove.Detroit closed that season with eight wins in 10 games, narrowly mi sing the playoffs, and picked up where it left off last year by matching a team record with 12 wins.The Lions won a division title for the first time since 1993, beat David Ortiz Jersey the Matthew Stafford-led Los Angeles Rams for their first playoff victory in three-plus decades and eliminated Tampa Bay before falling one game short of the Super Bowl.Were fortunate to have the succe s, but we know what came before that," said offensive tackle Taylor Decker, who endured a lot of losing after being drafted by Detroit in 2016. " It was the work that came before that when no one cared what the Lions were doing.When the Lions kicked off training camp last year, to stand up, turn around and look toward the back of the full-team meeting room. They saw the team hadn't won a playoff game since 1992, a division title since 1993 and a league championship since 1957.After finally winning the division and a playoff game, Rusney Castillo Jersey offensive guard Graham Glasgow said the display was updated by someone who wrote 2023 on pieces of white, athletic tape.Those are still up there and theres still tape through it with old-school tape," Campbell said. "It just looks better that way.But weve checked the box on two and weve got one more to check.___ at ___AP NFL: