Campbell is known as the aggressive guy, but when it has to be calculated decision he is not doing it ,little worried about this. Two runs each 1 yard at end when timeouts remaining, almost putting the kicker under pressure risking a 52 yard field goal. This is where you have p to be aggressive and help the kicker. Also he didn’t get the timeout where he wanted at the end 
. Also first 58 yard field goal where is your aggressive call not going on 4 th down .
I don’t know, Homie. Doesn’t feel like the kind of game where we should be saying “Goff needs to throw the ball more.”
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I didn’t like the 2pt call.
All else was good. 4 seconds, 2 seconds didn’t matter, that was on the ref for sure.
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Lol I started the thread to talk about the unneeded two points and I forgot to mention it
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Two points normally would have been a good call IMO. Puts us down by 8. But the way Goff and the o-line were playing, I would have taken the PAT.
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Agree…
I truly have no clue why the let Houston bleed it down to 2:00 from 2:46 to end the half, then we ran back to back HB dives into the teeth of the D and punted? Then we get the ball back with “12 seconds” and try a 20 yard pass and then throw a Hail Mary pick?
Where was the urgency with 2 plus minutes and 3 timeout before it was hopeless?
Either way- we won
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Wrong, wrong and wrong….they did everything right in those situations.
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Going for 2 was absolutely correct – make it, and we’re only down a TD and another 2-pt conversion.
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Most teams are pretty loyal to their sheet.
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At that point in the game if the Lions do not get that stop the game is over regardless. So I would as a coach assume we get the stop and Houston kicks the FG so we are down by 3. I would rather have timeouts and 1:50 on the clock than no timeouts and 2:30 on the clock assuming I needed to go 30-40 yards to kick the game tying FG.
I was also thinking maybe burn timeouts and stop that clock there but when thinking about it without a stop the game is over. So plan for success. Assume you get the stop and assume they kick the FG.
As far as pushing it to get a closer FG. It was for the win and not the tie. So I am fine with playing it that way. Your kicker has plenty of leg so he either puts it on goal or he doesn’t. And I totally get the closer FG gives you a larger margin of error but sometimes you just need to have faith.
I was impressed by Houston’s energy and effort. That team gave the Lions their best throat punch. But without the INTs and short field I am not sure Houston scores more than 15 for that game. So the Lions were the better team by a good margin and the longer that game went to better the Lions chances to win became.
Lions would have crushed an OT.
if it was the fourth quarter, I’d agree.
Too much time left to play for one score, unless your 2 pt play is almost a sure thing. The way we were running it, it was far from a sure thing.
We won so its all good!
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Initially, you usually see how first down goes, and maybe second down. If you gain some chunks, then you get aggerssive. We didn’t, so we wanted Houston to burn time outs, so they don’t have alot of time to score. It backfired, b/c Houston scored quickly. But i didn’t have a problem with it.
In the second scenario, why not try for a lucky 20 or 30 yarder to let Bates try from 60? In that case, you’re not thinking Houston will get it again. No problem with that, either.
We didn’t need the field goal to win if soupy didn’t try the two-point conversion
I don’t like going for two before the 4th quarter. It’s too early with too many scenarios that can play out.
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