With the Lions knotted up with the Packers and facing a fourth-and-1 from well inside field goal range, knowing full well most other coaches would simply kick the go-ahead field goal and leave Jordan Love 40 seconds left on the clock, Dan Campbell did what he always does and stayed aggressive. A stumbling Jared Goff only delayed the inevitability of David Montgomery breaking through the line with a run that allowed Detroit to send Jake Bates out to win the game as time expired. It was an unconventional decision but it actually would have been more bizarre if Campbell had settled for three without taking a swing for the jugular.
This time it worked out. Heck, four out of five times on Thursday it worked out to keep Detroit's offense on the field. Campbell seems to understand better than 99 percent of coaches that their team should do the exact thing the opponent doesn't want them to do.
