Legendary Detroit Lions player Lomas Brown is seeing the city’s emotional turmoil following the team’s defeat against the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game.
Brown remarked, “We’re trying to get settled in, man, but it’s still kind of burning,” on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich.” This is the subject of every talk program on the radio and TV in this area. Everything has revolved around the Lions and some of the choices made during that game. Whom do we assign the blame to? This place has a lot going on.”
The disappointment of not making it to the Super Bowl is evident in any community that is unsuccessful, but the Lions led the San Francisco 49ers 24-7 at the half.
But the team had an incredible collapse in the second half, and everyone is talking about the decisions head coach Dan Campbell made that contributed to that collapse.
In the end, Campbell’s repeated fourth-down attempts to go for it proved to be ineffective and resulted in 49ers points in the second half. The first one came after the 49ers had started the half with a field goal drive, and Detroit was set up to make their own field goal on a fourth-and-two deep in San Francisco territory.
But throughout the regular season, that was not Campbell at all, and he was not going to quit believing in his players to maintain the motivation. However, a Jared Goff pass to Josh Reynolds struck the ground, causing the ball to be turned over on a down.
At that time, leading 24–10, a field goal would have restored the three-score advantage. Even though many have praised Campbell’s gaming Even though it was early in the half, Brown feels that the decision to go for fourth and shorts was not the right one given how the half was going.
