ALLEN PARK -- The Baker Mayfield coming to Ford Field for Monday Night Football next week isn’t the same one the Detroit Lions have seen before.

He’s not the quarterback who threw that ill-timed interception to Derrick Barnes in the 2023 divisional-round game, the one that helped send the Lions to the NFC championship. Nor is he the one who guided the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 20-16 win over Detroit last season, handing the Lions one of their only two regular-season losses.

No, this version of the eight-year veteran is something new. And Lions coach Dan Campbell knows his team -- coming off a tough loss to the Kansas City Chiefs -- will have its hands full with Mayfield and the Buccaneers.

“(The Buccaneers) are playing hot football; it’s a very good team,” Campbell told reporters Tuesda

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