Heard a stat today that makes me cut Dan Campbell a little bit of slack for his fourth down decisions. His field goal kicker misses twenty five percent of the time between forty and forty nine yards. Of course, that's his decision to have that kicker. But it makes going for it on fourth down In longer field goal situations more favorable.

10 hours ago, MJAlltheWay24 said:

As long as you have plenty of total studs.

Which he clearly has. I think a lot of quarterbacks would do well with the rest on that offense.

12 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Heard a stat today that makes me cut Dan Campbell a little bit of slack for his fourth down decisions. His field goal kicker misses twenty five percent of the time between forty and forty nine yards. Of course, that's his decision to have that kicker. But it makes going for it on fourth down In longer field goal situations more favorable.

That and you just don’t know how things will turn out. A lot of times settling for field goals gets you beat against good teams especially if you don’t make the field goal. I’m definitely cutting him more slack 48 hours later than I was in the moment. The way the 49ers were playing I don’t know that overtime on the road would have worked out either.

I am not going to say much regarding Campbell's decision to go for it on fourth downs last Sunday or other decisions he's made throughout the year. I am not sure they are analytically driven, either, just his gut instinct, bravado, or whatever you want to call it. For this Lions' team, you can say it worked. I will say, over time I would not bet on that proposition paying off. For every 2023 Dan Campbell there is a 2023 Brandon Staley who had this stuff blow up in his face countless times.