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Bad decisions the strokes3/5/2023 ![]() This keeps happening and it needs to stop. Campbell seems too enamored with trying to make up a 13-point deficit on one play. There were opportunities to put points on the board early, to cut the lead and maybe build a little momentum. That doesn’t make it acceptable though.Ĭampbell refused to even try a field goal, makeable ones based on new kicker Michael Badgley’s history. When Campbell stands at the postgame podium and declares, “That’s 100 percent on me,” he’s 100 percent correct. ![]() Campbell and Johnson have to know that too, but they’re not showing any ability to counter the other team’s adjustments. Brown before he caught the ball - on a zero-yard route that required run-after-catch to succeed.Įveryone knows Goff will default to the easier, shorter route there. But the Patriots quickly just abandoned covering the outside option and had two defenders closing on St. Brown, they feigned a little off-coverage on No. ![]() But the Patriots baited Goff expertly here. Jared Goff rushes the snap count to try and catch the Patriots flat-footed. Midway through the third quarter, 4th-and-2 from the Patriots’ 34-yard line. I wrote about another example in the postgame takeaways, Campbell, offensive coordinator Ben Johnson and QB Jared Goff have collectively failed to adjust. The defenses have figured out what’s coming. It has at least clouded his in-game judgment. Perhaps the past success of being overly aggressive on some fourth downs has emboldened Campbell. This line appears invisible to Campbell after five weeks of 2022. There’s a line between being ambitiously aggressive and being reckless. He needs to account for the potential of failure. These are the kind of tactical errors Campbell cannot keep making. Godchaux and Barmore stuffed Jamaal Williams, and the Lions wound up going 0-for-6 on fourth down. ![]() “I feel like as a defensive lineman, it’s disrespectful.” They clearly fed off the Lions’ failure:ĭavon Godchaux said it was “very insulting” for the Lions to go for it on fourth-and-1 on their opening drive. Now look at it from the Patriots’ point of view. Zappe leads the Patriots to a confidence-building field goal when the Lions defense nicely holds up on third down in the red zone. That’s a completely unnecessary risk at that point in the game. Instead of relying on Pro Bowl punter Jack Fox to pin the Patriots deep in the shadow of their own goalposts, Campbell opts to set them up in Lions territory. New England is starting a rookie QB making his first NFL start. Right guard Logan Stenberg, mysteriously back in the starting lineup after being benched for two weeks for inept play, chooses the wrong side of the gap to block. New England shifts into a 9-man box and easily blows through the Lions line to get the stop. It’s an obvious interior run to Jamaal Williams based on formation, down/distance and tendency. ![]() The Lions bring in an extra lineman as a blocker and aligned in a tight formation. The scene: 4th-and-1 from the Detroit 45-yard line. It was vintage over-aggressive Campbell actively hurting his team with a poor decision and an even worse play call. Yet the game was gone on the very first of those six failed fourth down attempts. That lesson is one Campbell has yet to learn or embrace. Maybe after the third or fourth abject failure, stop trying the same darn thing. If at first you don’t succeed, try again. If Belichick was playing chess, Campbell was breaking his Hungry Hungry Hippos game by slamming the handles way too hard and always at the wrong time to catch those pesky marbles.Įvery single fourth-down failure, all six of them, was a simultaneous master class from Belichick and Campbell licking the frozen pole in the playground. However, Campbell’s crew made it way too easy for Belichick and the Patriots in this one. He’s in the argument for the best NFL coach of all time. In and of itself, there is no shame in being outcoached by Bill Belichick. But there is one common denominator to all those levels.ĭan Campbell was woefully outclassed by his Patriots counterparts. Sunday’s 29-0 shutout loss to the New England Patriots represented an epic failure on so many levels for the Detroit Lions. ![]()
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