Seems like the in thing today from a national perspective. I guess they're tired of pumping up how good the Lions have been, how exciting they've been, how talented and deep they are or have been anyway, and how Dan Campbell and his coaching staff have almost transformed what has taken place in the NFL. It is more common since he has jumped on board, it's more common to go forward in the NFL. I would argue he affects in a trickle down way college football and high school football too,
from what I witnessed. I don't have the numbers to back that up. It just it's a feeling for me. But it seems more and more people are getting tired of it. More and more people feel like they know the Lions better than Dan Campbell knows the Lions. And I'm not one of those guys who feel like, well,
you can never second guess the coach. You know that, if you've watched and listened to the show, you know that there's been plenty of times where I disagree with certain moments, but you have to have a reasoning behind it.
You also have to understand that what Dan Campbell has done with Detroit, and how he has made this team believe in one another, shown the confidence in his offense when they go forward on fourth down, and shown the confidence in his defense in various other moves that well, you know what, it is a trickle down effect within that organization. They believe in one another. It does make an impact for those players. It's not always successful, we get that, but when they do go forward on fourth down,
they are more successful than just about anybody else. We've given the numbers that more teams go for it on fourth down than Detroit. It's a misnomer that they go for it far too often and that they go for it all the time, and that's just not true. But they continue with that narrative because it's hard for them to actually do some research and recognize, you know what,
I could be wrong in this sense. There are to say that just about every coach is going to make at some point during the game where you're going to question. I mean, somebody on Monday called this show, or maybe they texted the show. Yeah, they texted the show and said I knew on the very first play it was going to be a problem when they went play action the very first play. Remember Buffalo won the coin flip.
Buffalo deferred. Lions got the ball first before people have even found their seat, before some people have even entered the building, before they've been able to sit down and sip their beer or eat their hot dog. Somebody said the very first play of the game, I knew it was going to be a problem because Detroit went play action. I mean, you heard a caller earlier this morning say, you know what the two times they've lost, it's been when they've thrown over fifty times. Yes, they threw fifty
five times against Tampa. They actually ran for one hundred and fifty yards in that game. Yes, they threw fifty nine times against Buffalo, threw for four hundred and ninety five yards, and Jared Goff and that offense could not be stopped through the air because Buffalo is susceptible. There are certain times where you do have to give what the defense or take what the defense gives you. Tennessee, I mean, Tennessee's really good against the pass, so you're
going to run against them. Right in this case, Buffalo pretty good against the run, pretty stout against the run, not very good against the pass. Rams exposed that Lions have exposed that it's something that they probably should have done. That wasn't the issue. The issue was stopping Josh Allen in company. But on top of all that, and we talked about this yesterday, the big question mark people had for the game was when the game was in the third quarter. It was a ten point game, I'm sorry,
fourth quarter, ten point game, twelve minutes left. Dan Campbell goes for the on side kick. I didn't agree with it, but I do understand his line of thinking. Doesn't mean that I would have done it. The question many people need to ask themselves in sports moving forward, and maybe this is the way in life. Do you understand why they may have done that. I understand it. I wouldn't have done it. That doesn't make it wrong. You can second guess all you want. My hope is that you're
first guessing more than anything else. It's in television tern right when you are watching a game and Troy Aikman last night with Joe Buck or Dan Orlovsky, you know, with Chris Fowler on the Atlanta game, are they first guessing? Are they going to see what's going to happen or what they think should happen here or are after the play is done. Why it should or should not have happened after the play is over is second guessing before
it's first guessing. That's what you would like, So ask yourself, are you first guessing? When the Lions get to within ten and Jay Bates is teeing it up? Are you saying right here, I would on sidekick or I wouldn't on sidekick instead of after the play. The national media last week was all over and we ridiculed that national mantra all over Dan Campbell for going forward on fourth down. No longer should this Lions team have to go forward on fourth down. The Lions are good enough to get
past this stop with the gimmicky stuff anymore. You can be better than this, and so on and so forth, like they know better than Dan Campbell, like they know better than what should be going on. And again, I'm not one of those guys who doesn't question coaching. You can question Brian Dable all you want. With the New York Giants, they've only got two wins, Go ahead and do it. This team going into the game against Buffalo, they're twelve and one, and you're ridiculing that this guy,
he doesn't belong on the sidelines. Think about that. For a second team's won twelve of its last thirteen games. He's got more wins, He's got a better winning percentage, not more wins, a better winning percentage than any coach in this franchise's history. He's in the discussion for Coach of the Year. His team is responding to him. His team is not just responding to him and not the energy that he provides and the postgame speeches and all
that other stuff. They're responding to the way he does things so much so that they had won eleven games in a row, a franchise record, a franchise it's been around a while man nineteen thirty four, So they know exactly who their coach is. They respect that, they love playing for him. Free agents want to come here. There's not many negatives associated with Dan Campbell, unless you want to nitpick and say he shouldn't have gone forward on fourth down because this team was in a bad position.
Even though they went they converted four or five on four thousand and I actually won the game against Green Bay because of that fourth down call. Now, because of what has taken place against Buffalo and the on side kick you have national members of the media like Emmanuel Atcho of FS one saying things like this.
To me, it's no longer aggressive what Dan Campbell is doing. It's just as nine. It is crazy, it is reckless, it's disrespectful, it's not aggressive. I questioned Dan Campbell's decision when he went for it, and it worked. So I'm not the one that flip flops based upon the result. You scored on offense your last two possessions. The last time the Bills got the ball, they were held to.
A field goal.
It was a ten point game. If you hold the Bills to a field goal again, it's still just a two possession game. Now you go get a touchdown. Now it's a one possession game. Maybe it's a seven point game or six point game with eight or so minutes left. I mean, you would scored at will offensively. So to me, it was just dumb because you're putting your team in a position to lose. He's either smarter than everybody else that is currently coaching, calling, and analyzing the game of football,
or he is making decisions that are dumb. And I do not suggest that he is the smartest person walking the plane.
Well, you can have your opinion. There's no doubt about that. Detroit was having a hard time stopping Buffalo. Actually, Detroit's offense was very good. I don't disregard any of that because I said the same thing yesterday. I said it in a different way, And I sure didn't say it in the sense that it's reckless and disrespectful. How is it disrespectful just out of curiosity? Like if you think it's crazy, okay, if you think it's reckless, I think
that's a little much. And to say that he's not the smartest person, it's interesting that you know he hasn't said or did he say, any of these things while Detroit was reeling awf eleven wins in a row, that he's not a good coach. Like when you go into Houston and you overcome five interceptions by your quarterback? Does that make you stupid? Does that make you reckless? Should you have not been as aggressive as they were during
those games? How about all the other games, Like when they're down ten to nothing to Minnesota early on in a really loud environment and he keeps his team together. You think he had to be smart to beat that team. You think he had to beat green Bay twice, including once at lambeau Field, and he wasn't smart. Suddenly he becomes an unintelligent person because he goes for an on
side kick. How is it disrespectful to either his team or the game of football in when Dan Campbell chooses a decision like that knowing full well that his defense is shorthanded and it has struggled to stop Buffalo. You know what the biggest problem for the Lions was on Sunday. It wasn't Dan Campbell's decision making. It was stopping josh Ama, a guy who throw threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more. Point I don't know if it's easily,
but he's probably gonna win it. He's probably the front runner. I mean, I said yesterday, Lamar Jackson has a better completion percentage, has thrown more yards and thrown more touchdowns and fewer interceptions coming off a five touchdown game. So it's a good debate, I mean, both of them. It's a really good argument for Jackson and or Allen. I think they've separated themselves. But that's neither here nor there. The problem is that we've got members of the national
medium and I've said this at nauseum. But I'm going to continue to bang this drum. We see twenty four hour sports and people have to fill content. So what are you gonna do today? I'll tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get emotional. I'm gonna look at the camera and I'm gonna be spitting mad, and I'm going to say something that not a lot of people have said before, even though last week some people were saying, I want to be the first one on this bandwagon.
Now you're not. Okay, I'm going to start to second guest Dan Campbell. A lot of coaches been second guests, all right. Hard to believe that you're getting second guest to twelve and two. Hard to believe that you're forgetting some of the other things that this guy has done and this team has done so far this year. I didn't see the second guessing after an impressive road win in Arizona. Where was the second guessing when they opened up a proverbial can on Seattle and did the same
thing in Dallas, humiliating them time and time again. In fact, mighty people at the time said, good for Dan Campbell. He's making a statement. He's pushing it. He's still firing on all cylinders against Dallas, making Dallas stop them. Let's
see what you can do about that. Where was the second guessing when they came back from ten to nothing down at Minnesota, or blowing out Tennessee, or winning at Green Bay, always a difficult place to win, coming back in the second half and holding Houston scoreless and beating the Texans time and time again. We can use examples. But suddenly it's the one decision in a loss that's gonna suddenly make you go, you know what, this guy can't coach. You want to second guess a coach. That's fine.
That happens all the time, and it should happen right. Coaches understand that when they sign their name on the dotted line of that contract, when they take over a franchise, they understand they are going to get second guests on a regular basis. I don't care if you're at the collegiate level or the professional level. I don't care if it's football, basketball, hockey, whatever, okay, baseball, second guest all the time. I ask for consistency more than anything else.
Don't be jumping on a proverbial bandwagon now, and thinking that Dan Campbell isn't smart. Did you think he was smart enough to get them to twelve and four and the NFC Championship Game a year ago? Did you think they were smart enough to win eleven straight games of franchise record this year and lead not only the division but the NFC right now if the season ended today,
Detroit's the one seat. Do you think it's a stupid person in charge of fifty three men who are trying to fight for their lives every single Sunday and their careers and they're going to follow a stupid man. Honestly, you played the game. You're the idiot, You're the simpleton. You're the one who's just looking for some type of extra accolades. So people start playing and talking about it,
and maybe we fell into that trap. But saying that he's not the smartest guy on the planet, why because he was a former tight end and because he doesn't come out there with all these great sayings. Instead, it's more emotion than anything else. You should know better than anybody else if this is the case, If you think he's not the smartest guy walking the planet, if you don't think he's smart enough to be a head coach. What does that say about your league? What's it say
about the National Football League? The dumb guy can lead a team to a twelve and two record a year after winning the division, making it to the NFC Championship Game, having the most expectations of reaching the Super Bowl, and being the number one seed in the NFC through fifteen weeks. What does it say about the National Football League that a dumb guy can accomplish all that? Where is why do you have to be smart?
Then?
Why do you have to be a smart football coach? You think he just does this with players who are talented. There's plenty of tech. Green Bay's got talent, Minnesota's got talent, Houston's got talent, and Detroit took care of business against all of them under a dumb guy. According to Emmanuel Atchel, we could use his last name in a different phrase. If you get my point. The phone number on the Myron hot line eight six six eight three forty eight
forty three, listen. I don't say this as a Lions fan. It's okay to second guest coaches. It's the whole desire to go after a man's character and to call it disrespectful. What an idiot who thinks it's disrespectful. It's disrespectful, disrespectful to have an onside kick. I'll tell you what's disrespectful.
The NFL acting like we're idiots. The NFL making it one of these situations where you've got to tell the other team that it's an onside kick, that you've taken the surprise out of the play in the first place for crying out loud. That's the reason you're so upset. If this happens and you're not telling the other team and it works, you're probably going that's a really good call. But the NFL has taken all that out. That's what's
disrespectful to the game of football, not Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell's decision may have lost the game, we don't know that, but it probably contributed. It happens coaches. It happens all the coaches he's played for. At some point they made a decision they wish they had back. Dan Campbell doesn't say he wished he had it back. Good for him. He stands by his convictions and his players stand by him. To me, that makes him a pretty smart guy, and
it makes his players smart. They believe him one another. It's a joke that we've got ex athletes out there trying to make a name for himself because nobody knows who this guy is, and he sits there and wants to tell everybody Dan Campbell's not very smart and he disrespects the game. You disrespect this business by going off on that type of tangent without having the right facts in front of you, knowing what this guy has meant to this team and the league in general.