Social Media Erupts as Detroit Dan Campbell Costs Team Shot at Big Game
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 28: Head coach Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers hugs Head coach Dan Campbell of the Detroit Lions following the NFC Championship Game at Levi's Stadium on January 28, 2024 in Santa Clara, California. San Francisco defeated Detroit 34-31.
Move over Atlanta, Detroit is here to hold your beer.
In what will go down as one of the most inexplicable in-game collapses in NFL history, Detroit head coach Dan Campbell was roasted online for not kicking a pair of field goals that could have kept his team’s Big Game chances alive.
The trouble started midway through the third quarter with Detroit leading San Francisco 24-10. Detroit faced a fourth and two at the San Fran 30-yard line. A field goal would have made it a three-possession game at 27-10. Instead, Campbell opted to go for it, and the decision backfired when Jared Goff’s pass was incomplete.
It quickly imploded from there for Detroit. San Francisco scored a touchdown on its next drive to cut the deficit to seven. After the kick-off, Detroit running back Jahmyr Gibbs fumbled the ball right back to San Fran, setting up shop nicely at the Detroit 24-yard line.
Three plays later Christian McCaffery rolled into the end zone for the game-tying score.
Detroit got one last shot to make up for the collapse. Goff had the offense moving efficiently into San Francisco territory before the drive stalled once again at the 30. And once again, instead of kicking a field goal that would have tied the game at 27, Campbell elected to go for it.
You know the rest of the story.
Social Media was aghast.
San Fran heads to the Big Game in Las Vegas on February 11 against Kansas City in a rematch of the Big Show from four years ago.
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Michael Cohen is the News and Sports Director at Fox Sports Radio New Jersey and Magic 98.3 FM, as well as a radio production assistant with Fox and Magic in New Jersey. He started his career in Somerset in 2018 initially as a news fill-in at WCTC 1450 AM, and soon moved up to higher responsibilities in the ensuing years, assuming News & Sports Director title in 2021Prior to his time with Fox Sports New Jersey, Michael was play-by-play voice for New Jersey Jackals baseball, and as well as play-by-play and color for the College of Staten Island basketball (men and women), softball and baseball. Michael began his career as a news and sportswriter with the Jersey Journal of Hudson County.
