Week Fifteen: Buffalo Bills (10-3) @ Detroit Lions (12-1)

[TP_Fan]

You just had to call a timeout there.  The 40 secs was just too valuable.  Campbell has had a bad day.   

[MichiganCardinal]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:36 AM, TP_Fan said:

You just had to call a timeout there.  The 40 secs was just too valuable.  Campbell has had a bad day.   

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No. You score without calling a timeout, you onside kick, and if you don’t get it back, you use them on the hopeful three-and-out.

Otherwise you’re required to recover the onside kick.

[TP_Fan]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:38 AM, MichiganCardinal said:

No. You score without calling a timeout, you onside kick, and if you don’t get it back, you use them on the hopeful three-and-out.

Otherwise you’re required to recover the onside kick.

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That’s asking a lot.  That means you have to score in at least 60 secs without using a TD to give yourself a real chance.   If that’s the case then make it even more challenging. Score a TD before the 2 min warning. In this case the time was more valuable.  

[MichiganCardinal]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:40 AM, TP_Fan said:

That’s asking a lot.  That means you have to score in at least 60 secs without using a TD to give yourself a real chance.   If that’s the case then make it even more challenging. Score a TD before the 2 min warning. In this case the time was more valuable.  

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It is asking a lot, but you’re down 10 (soon to be 13) with 2:45 left. It’s going to take a lot.

[lordstanley]

You need to start throwing near the end zone. 

[TP_Fan]

Would’ve been nice to have 40 more secs. 

[TP_Fan]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:41 AM, MichiganCardinal said:

It is asking a lot, but you’re down 10 (soon to be 13) with 2:45 left. It’s going to take a lot.

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Which is why you need the 40 secs and not one timeout. It was the wrong call. 

[MichiganCardinal]

No offense in the league is going to win a game when your defense plays as poorly as this was today.

It falls on Glenn, but it’s a top to bottom failure.

[MichiganCardinal]

You CANNOT call that timeout there. Unacceptable.

[TP_Fan]

Not taking the timeout earlier made this impossible. It was wrong in the moment and proved to be worse after the fact.  There should be 1:05 left with 2 timeouts. You were always going to need an onside kick.  The 3 timeouts wasn’t the added value. Campbell has to learn from this. 

[MichiganCardinal]

484 yards and five TDs for Goff and the defense couldn’t stop a THING,

[lordstanley]

3 plays to victory: recover onside kick. Sideline pass to pick up 10 yards. Catch Hail Mary. 

[TP_Fan]

Imagine if there was 52 secs left.  

[MichiganCardinal]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:49 AM, TP_Fan said:

Not taking the timeout earlier made this impossible. It was wrong in the moment and proved to be worse after the fact.  There should be 1:05 left with 2 timeouts. You were always going to need an onside kick.  The 3 timeouts wasn’t the added value. Campbell has to learn from this. 

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1:05 and two timeouts is game over.

[TP_Fan]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:50 AM, MichiganCardinal said:

1:05 and two timeouts is game over.

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No.  You had to get an onside kick either way. You weren’t stopping Buffalo. The timeouts didn’t matter. 

[MichiganCardinal]

Hell of a kick by Bates. That’s as close as you’ll come in 2024.

[lordstanley]

That’s about as much as you can expect from an onside kick. Loose ball, no flags, scrum, wait for refs’ call. Wouldn’t that have been wild. 

[Motown Bombers]

That why I say you kick it right at them. 

[MichiganCardinal]

I don’t think the Lions lose another game before at least February.

[TP_Fan]

And couldn’t get the ball on a great onside kick.  Failure from the coaching staff today.  No one is gonna hire Aaron Glenn now.  

[number20]

Those 2 early TDs. Damn

 

[TP_Fan]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:54 AM, MichiganCardinal said:

I don’t think the Lions lose another game before at least February.

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Bears next week.  In Chicago. 

[NYLion]

Meh, win the last 3 and you get the #1 seed. 

I think a game like this might actually be good for the Lions, first real adversity of the season on the field (not including injuries) so this could be a launching point for them to correct mistakes and perhaps get humbled.

Edited December 16, 2024 by NYLion

[TP_Fan]

  On 12/16/2024 at 12:55 AM, NYLion said:

Meh, win the last 3 and you get the #1 seed. 

I think a game like this might actually be good for the Lions, first real adversity of the season on the field (not including injuries) so this could be a launching point for them to correct mistakes and perhaps get humbled.

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They were humbled against Chicago and that didn’t really help.  

[holygoat]

The first 3-and-out was the ballgame. Damn.