Breaking Down The Miraculous Comeback Win

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00:00There's a couple things in that game that were almost like from a screenplay.

00:07Like you couldn't script it.

00:09When they played the tape of Dan Campbell at halftime talking about needing to create

00:13turnovers and Carlton Davis picks off a pass with that as the soundtrack, Campbell saying

00:19we need to get turnovers, it's just a coincidence.

00:23Like I get, and it's no surprise, I'm sure a lot of coaches would have been preaching

00:27we need to get turnovers, but they got one as the sound bites playing.

00:36It's almost like Dan Campbell didn't need the legend of Dan Campbell boosted anymore

00:42in this town, but that happens.

00:44Are you kidding me?

00:47You couldn't, you couldn't script it and that happened A and B at the end of the game, if

00:55you had said, all right, how are we going to do this?

00:57Um, what are we going to, what are we going to make this the most dramatic football movie

01:01ever?

01:02That's about a kicker.

01:03Uh, we'll have, have him.

01:05He's a rookie.

01:06We'll have him in his hometown where he had some average everyday job and we all know

01:12what it is now.

01:13And then one year later he's back and he scrapes the right upright, upright to tie it.

01:22Like this stuff is it's movie stuff.

01:28Are you kidding me?

01:30It's great.

01:31It's so great.

01:32I love this movie.

01:33I want to watch it over and over again.

01:36I hope it ends with a really happy ending here.

01:38It's it's, it's every little thing about this team makes you smile even a little more, you

01:44know, and going through the adversity they went through on Sunday night and come away

01:47on top.

01:48Great.

01:49And it's, it's, it's look, watching the players develop as they have, you know, it's seen

01:54Pascoe back out there.

01:56Dan Campbell's right.

01:57You know, he's talking about Pascoe and saying, and we got Pascoe back and he played well.

02:00He did play well.

02:01Yep.

02:02It was good to see him playing well.

02:04You're seeing Jack Campbell out there and he's becoming more of a force this year than

02:08what he was last year.

02:09I had a pretty good rookie season, but he's, he stepped it up a little bit this year.

02:12Uh, but then you're seeing other guys.

02:14I'm sure you did it too.

02:15Who the hell?

02:16What dude?

02:17Okay.

02:18Neiman's out there making plays that you're like, why is Neiman, why is Neiman even seeing

02:22the field?

02:23I'm never going to question it because whatever works works.

02:28And then there was a play where Jamarco Jones, they, we had a Jamarco Jones sighting.

02:31I'm like, I didn't, I thought that he was, was he off the team?

02:35I didn't think they brought him back to the practice squad.

02:37Was he a practice squad guy?

02:38I don't remember that.

02:39Well, you saw how they used him too.

02:41Yes.

02:42It was the, he played the Dan Skipper role.

02:44He went in motion.

02:47Did you need, did you see this Kang?

02:49He goes in motion, lines up as a wing on the end of the left end of the line, chips a guy

02:55and goes out for a pass.

02:57Brilliant.

02:58I don't think the play worked, but it was, but it's just the fact that they don't stop.

03:04This is what they do.

03:06They make you think every time they're putting it all out there on film, you, you don't know

03:10what to expect with the lions offense.

03:13And their roster is chock full of guys that they get a chance to play on Sunday.

03:18There's always somebody that you're like, I don't know who the hell this guy is and

03:20what does he do?

03:21Oh, he's making a play is what he's doing.

03:23Okay, good.

03:24Good for him.

03:25Nice.

03:26I swear to God, I thought they're going to run the hook and ladder to get that first

03:30on the end of the game to put them in fuel range.

03:32Like I, I'm like this, he's going to pull something out.

03:35Ben Johnson's like, he's a sick bastard.

03:37And you remember the green Bay game, they did it with St. Brown and Deandre Swift, you

03:41know?

03:42And I thought, all right, here it comes.

03:43Here it comes.

03:44Like you have to be prepared for anything in any moment when you play the lions and

03:48you talk about being scripted, Doug, how that game was scripted and everything that's just

03:51like, it was like, like you, someone wrote this in a movie.

03:54Yep.

03:55I thought that was the perfect game for the lions.

03:57Of course it works out perfect game because they end up winning the game, but they needed

04:01a wake up call.

04:02Like when they were getting spanked in the first half and I didn't know what the outcome

04:06was going to be.

04:07It didn't look good at that moment.

04:08And I thought to myself, the positive out of this was they were cruising too much, right?

04:11Everyone was giving them their flowers every single week, top of the power rankings.

04:15Everyone just saying how great Ben Johnson is, how great this team is.

04:18Sometimes you need this in the middle of the year to just be like, Hey, remember this can

04:22turn at any moment.

04:23You got to stay on top of it.

04:25They took their lumps, came back and won the game.

04:28And I think now that we know, Hey, they, you know, things are always, you always can work

04:32on something in this league, right?

04:34There's no given wins any, any given Sunday, like they always say.

04:37So I think it was perfect for this team where they're at.

04:39There was one thing that I questioned at the end of the game.

04:42I don't know if you guys had the same thing.

04:45It's third and seven with about 40 seconds to go and the clock is ticking.

04:52It's third down.

04:53You've got two timeouts left.

04:55I was surprised they didn't run another play to see if they can get closer, but they thought

04:5952 yards is good.

05:01We don't need to get another, any, any more yardage.

05:03I just thought that was strange.

05:05I don't know how many teams in a league would say 52 is good enough.

05:10So here's the thing.

05:12I thought about it in the moment too.

05:15And the conclusion I came to is 52.

05:19They are very comfortable with, and you always run the risk of a TFL holding.

05:25And if you back it up 10 yards, now you've, you've created, you go, okay, now we're on

05:30the brink of makeable field goal range.

05:33We should have, should have just let it run, run down.

05:38So I think they, I think that what the message I got, and you know, Dan Campbell talked about

05:43how they ran this end of game scenario with Jake Bates and Thursday's practices.

05:48They know he's going to make it from 52 way more often than not.

05:52And so why risk running another play that could be a negative play?

05:57Which gets back to the point of how many other teams would do this?

06:00How many other teams feel that confident in their kicker?

06:02And because it feels like, okay, you and I bring this up all the time, 50 yard field

06:07goals are going in all over the place.

06:09Everybody's kicking except for Jake Moody.

06:13I think we all thought the same thing.

06:14Why not run another play?

06:15Get a few more yards, but 52 is the new 42, man.

06:19You know what I'm saying?

06:20Like it's, it's Hey, 52, no problem.

06:24That's that's the entire league for the most part.

06:26Although they had the roof open, but the elements aren't, aren't going to play a role in it.

06:29I mean, I understood it to a point.

06:32It's just, it's not what I would have done and doesn't matter.

06:36What matters is what Dan Campbell's going to do.

06:38I thought it was a little strange.

06:39It didn't run an extra play, but they have that much confidence in the kicker.

06:43And to your point, Doug, look, they don't want to take a negative play.

06:46They certainly don't want to take a penalty.

06:48Even if they did though, they'd still have a chance to make that up because if I, if

06:51I heard this correctly last night during the Monday night game, Josh Cardi, the kicker

06:55for the Rams was standing over a 55 yarder, which was going to be a career long.

07:00And I think, I think Joe Buck said that now from beyond 50, when he, as he was there,

07:07did you hear this by chance?

07:08He said, he said, kickers are now at 71% from beyond 50 yards.

07:15And so I think it's, I think you're right.

07:1852 is the new 42.

07:19And obviously they, they, they were right too.

07:22Even if it just shaved through the goalpost, I swear that hit the flag that the last kick,

07:28but Houston's kicker had made like 1150 plus yarders.

07:32So it's not like this is normal, man.

07:35And then he, well, he missed the 58 yard.

07:38You're going to miss some point.

07:39Was Tariqo, it was a Tariqo or Collins where they had the line.

07:42Like if there was an extra coat of paint on that, that's not going in.

07:46My son said to me, if the laces had been turned directly towards, they might've clicked.

07:50It might've hit the goalpost, but unbelievable.

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