CINCINNATI – Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell preaches every week the impact takeaways have on winning football games in the NFL. It's why the first set of drills after stretching every practice during the season are takeaway drills for the defense and ball protection drills for the offense.

Detroit came into Sunday ranked in the top 10 in the league in takeaways and added three more in Sunday's 37-24 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.

"When you really start getting good at them, you start hunting for them," Campbell said after the game about Detroit's eight takeaways in five games. "Our guys are hunting for them. They become contagious and this is the first time since I've been here, I feel like we're getting them in bunches early in the year. I feel like there's blood in the water.

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