The Detroit Lions have a new offensive coordinator with head coach Matt Patricia now gearing up to enter his second season at the helm in the “Motor City.” With Darrell Bevell now slated to lead the offense in Detroit, the Lions appear primed to run the football — even with veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford still more than capable of slinging the rock.

“We’ll always be about running the football,” Bevell recently said, via the Detroit Free Press. “We want to be a tough, hard-nosed, physical football team. We want to be able to exert our will on our opponents.”

Bevell previously served as the offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks from 2011 to 2017 while finding multitudes of success alongside Super Bowl-winning quarterback and perennial Pro Bowler Russell Wilson. Prior to his lengthy stint in the Pacific Northwest as a member of the Seahawks organization, Bevell served as the offensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings between 2006 and 2010.

Despite just signing on in Detroit, the veteran NFL mind already has definite confidence in the Lions offense.

“It is different for the opponent,” Bevell said. “If you’re playing the Rams and the Chiefs and those teams week in and week out, they’re defending the same thing. All of a sudden you play us, there’s going to be different things to defend and they have to decide how they want to do it, if they’re going to have to personnel it different. I think it kind of gives you a little bit of an edge that way.”

Of course, the Lions still play in one of the toughest divisions in all of football. The Vikings, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears could all be quite dangerous in 2019.