With his Detroit Lions trailing the Buffalo Bills by 10 points and 12 minutes remaining in regulation, Dan Campbell made the unusual choice to attempt an onside kick to skip that whole pesky "playing defense" portion of the game. The gamble did not pay off as Buffalo's Mack Hollins high-pointed the ball and raced it down near the goal line. A few seconds later Buffalo had once again pushed their advantage to 17 points. Even though this was not a turning point in the game and the outcome was etched into wet cement hours ago when a devastated Lions defensive unit tried and failed to stop Allen over and over again, it's still being discussed as a turning point.
By and large the discussion has been pretty reasonable. Many pundits have been able to realize that a very bad thing was happening to the Lions and, quite honestly, they were probably going to lose if they recovered the kick because Allen would have forced them to attempt another one after casually strolling into the end zone again. Emmanuel Acho, though, is here to offer the harshest take on the kick and Campbell's trademark aggressiveness.
