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Lions fans: it’s okay to be pissed off.

We should have an empathetic attitude to those who have been repeatedly screwed over when we have heard “this is the year” for years. You can’t be upset with Lions fans who are 30 game minutes away from a Super Bowl(which has NEVER happened before) and they lead by 17 points. The team blows the lead by the highest of any championship game margin. We have a right to be mad. Let us be mad online rather than taking it out on someone or something.

We all know Ben Johnson is gone so we may have lost our window.

I want to stress again. It wasn’t that the Lions lost, it is HOW they lost that gets me upset.

• Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

• 20 people with 20 different reasons why they lost

• shell shocked fans wondering what the hell happened

• coaches making questionable decisions that impact the outcome

craig11152 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:13 am

SOL is back from vacation.

• Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

• 20 people with 20 different reasons why they lost

• shell shocked fans wondering what the hell happened

• coaches making questionable decisions that impact the outcome

SOL to me was never just about losing seasons. It is about the ways they find to lose that make fans slap their collective heads.
Blowing a 17 point lead with 30 minutes to the Super Bowl is an SOL thing to do. It's just that the bar has gotten higher.

Desperate to extend the game, Campbell could have — should have — done one of two things as his team drove down the field down 10 with under two minutes to go. He could have gone for a field goal when there were still about 80 seconds left, still armed with all his timeouts. He didn’t. On third-and-goal, he chose a running play, meaning he had to burn a timeout. The Lions scored but couldn’t execute the onside kick.

And that was that.

MWmetalhead wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:32 pm

BMW touched on this already, but here's what the NY Post had to say about Campbell's clock management and decision making in desperation time:

Desperate to extend the game, Campbell could have — should have — done one of two things as his team drove down the field down 10 with under two minutes to go. He could have gone for a field goal when there were still about 80 seconds left, still armed with all his timeouts. He didn’t. On third-and-goal, he chose a running play, meaning he had to burn a timeout. The Lions scored but couldn’t execute the onside kick.

And that was that.

Honeyman wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:05 am

bmw wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:03 am

I get it, and I don't have a problem with them going for 4th downs frequently. But situation matters. And Campbell seems to lack situational awareness at times with regards to 3 points being very beneficial relative to the risk of not converting on 4th down. And tonight's 3rd quarter decision was one of those times. Being up 17 was as good as being up 21 at that point in the game, but being up only 14 and giving SF the ball with good field position was too risky. Not to mention, it puts you right back to where you were at halftime, except now half of the 3rd quarter is gone too.

It was the wrong decision. But he hasn't trusted his kicker in 2 years. He wasn't gonna change now.

“If we don’t win the last game of the series, they’ll dismiss us. I know these guys, I know the way they think, and they will erase us.” – Billy Beane