The Detroit Lions Cinderella season has finally come to an end after surrendering a 17 point comeback to the San Francisco 49ers and losing in the NFC Championship. Head Coach Dan Campbell was just as aggressive in this game as he has always been going for it on two crucial 4th down conversions instead of opting to take the field goals. In hind sight, kicking those field goals would have probably won them the game and a birth to the Super Bowl.
Detroit Lions’ Dan Campbell Getting Ripped In The Media
While the coach is getting ripped by fans and media alike for the super aggressive play calling in the NFC Championship. While that may be deserving to some extent, that is only fair in hind sight. If they get those conversions, they win the game and we are all praising the coach for his ballsy play calling.
Campbell stuck to what he always did and to what got the Lions to this position in the first place. While I think it is Ludacris to not kick the first field goal to go up by three scores again, and it was also pretty crazy to not try to tie the game with the way things were going, this is exactly what Campbell has established as their culture. When you have a strong culture like they do you have to stick to it no matter the cost and no matter what people will say about you.
The Detroit Lions Were The Best Team Going For It On 4th Down
This team was the best and most aggressive team this season going for it on fourth down, and that cost them at times but was overall a very successful team doing that. With analytics playing a much bigger role in the NFL, many more teams have been going for it on fourth down and this team was the best at it.
The Lions attempted the most 4th down attempts in the NFL with 20 this season, far more than any other team, and they converted on 17 of them! That is also the most by far of any team. They did it at a legendary level and that is what gave Campbell the trust to be doing exactly that when all the chips are on the table. they had an 85% success rate which was the second in the NFL but only behind a team that barely went for it.
The fact that they established their culture to be like this and had such amazing success doing it means of course they would stick with that mindset when the stakes are highest. Of course as fans we can all rip on the coach for being so aggressive, but if they got those conversions, which they easily could have, they would be in the Super Bowl and we would be praising Campbell.
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