{"id":178317,"date":"2025-07-03T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/178317\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:35:12","slug":"lions-news-dan-campbell-is-a-development-wizard-in-madden-nfl-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/178317\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions News: Dan Campbell is a \u2018development wizard\u2019 in Madden NFL 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"WMQVBN\">It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideofdetroit.com\/2021\/8\/12\/22622019\/dan-campbell-madden-22-early-access-preview-placeholder-generic-model-detroit-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madden video game franchise didn\u2019t even have an accurate depiction of Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell<\/a>\u2014leaving us with a figure we dubbed \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/btlZiL94JZk?si=_MBbm-yBCdm9sgt8&amp;t=288\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Crimble<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"dXLzq4\">Now, it appears EA Sports is overcompensating for the missed time. <\/p>\n<p id=\"MpzZga\">On Wednesday, they released the latest trailer for Madden NFL 26\u2014focusing on Franchise Mode, and they promise \u201cthe most meaningful update in over a decade.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"OOdJ5Z\">One of those updates is a new customization of your head coach in Franchise Mode. And that\u2019s where Campbell comes in. To start selecting your head coach style, you are given four \u201carchetype\u201d choices: offensive guru, defensive genius, development wizard, or real-life NFL coach. Each selection has its own strengths and weakness, and during the selection process, each choice has the face of a current NFL coach to represent that kind of archetype. Andy Reid is the offensive guru, Todd Bowles is the defensive genius, and there\u2019s Dan Campbell representing the development wizard: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"   alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-upload-width=\"844\" width=\"844\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot_2025_07_03_at_6.29.01_AM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"pDv7FJ\">While some may take offense that Campbell is not being credited with his offensive scheme knowledge here, this is overall a pretty nice compliment, as well. Campbell has rightfully earned a reputation for getting the most out of his players as both an expert motivator and by knowing the limits of his team. <\/p>\n<p id=\"0XZZup\">You can view the entire trailer below. Madden NFL 26 drops on August 14. <\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Hassanein can apparently break dance. Learn more about the Lions rookie defensive end here, including his very appropriate choice for walk-up music: <\/p>\n<p>Do you follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/prideofdetroit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@prideofdetroit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>? If not, you\u2019re missing out on YouTube and PODcast clips like this: <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t all that long ago that the Madden video game franchise didn\u2019t even have an accurate depiction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2329,1125,3663,3743,146,153,4391,9679,7,29,723,142,147,773,88,6,152,151,39227],"class_list":{"0":"post-178317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-campbell","10":"tag-category-daily-links","11":"tag-dan","12":"tag-detroit","13":"tag-detroit-lions-news","14":"tag-detroit-lions-notes","15":"tag-development","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-front-page","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-is","20":"tag-lions","21":"tag-madden","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-of","25":"tag-pride","26":"tag-wizard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114789569674690536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}