Man who keeps it real is Dan Campbell. There’s no doubt about that. When Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell appeared on 97.1 The Ticket on Tuesday, he became a little impatient with the hosts and asked them both to share whatever was going through their heads.
During the team’s two-point conversion attempts at the end of the Dallas game, Campbell declared he wouldn’t alter a thing, and he adhered to that decision this week.
Jim Costa, host of Detroit’s 97.1 The Ticket, previously referred to the two-point conversions as a “lunatic decision.”
Dan Campbell lost his cool
When Campbell appeared on Costa’s show on Tuesday, these plays became a hot topic of conversation.
“I told our offense we were going for the win. ‘We’re going to go down, we’re going to score and we’re going for two, and I wasn’t coming off of that,” Campbell told Costa. He noted that he would have kicked if the Lions had been moved outside of the 10-yard-line, but “we work inside the 10 every week, good on good, O vs D.”
This is when Campbell lost it .
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“I think from the 7 it’s a low-percentage play,” said Costa. “I think your chances of winning are lower than if you kick the extra point.”
“No, say it like you would say it to anybody else,” said Campbell. “I’m on the radio, say it like you want to say it.”
“I thought it was a reckless decision,” responded Costa.
“Thank you!” said Campbell, who reiterated that he did not regret going for two.
“If they play a certain coverage that is the last place it will go, and that was the exact coverage we got,” Campbell said. “You’re not thinking that’s going to be the first thing that’s going to pop. You’re hoping that (Sam) LaPorta is going to pop and he ended up creating a rub. So while Goff’s waiting for it, you realize, god, I gotta pull the trigger here, and it just didn’t work out, man.”
The Lions’ first two-point attempt was successful, but Taylor Decker, an offensive lineman, was called for unlawful touching even though the video seemed to show that he was eligible.
The Lions had a third shot from the 4 but Jared Goff was unable to find his tight end with a throw after the Cowboys were saved by an offsides call on the second two-point attempt. With a chance to choose their own fate for the No. 2 seed and, with some assistance, a chance at No. 1, the Detroit Lions took a plane to Dallas. The reason that is no longer likely is Brad Allen.