HC Dan Campbell, DET (1 Viewer)

[Harjiran]

Last night Gibbs was carving up the WAS D almost every time he touched the ball. Yes I'm just a guy watching football on TV and I understand why these guys get paid the big bucks to coach and call plays, but for the life of me, I don't understand why you go away from Gibbs in that situation. If he gets 25-30 carries, I think DET wins that game. The Commanders had no answer for him.

 

[JohnnyU]

But I'll gladly take Dan Cambell as my head coach

OK, but he also has to realize that coaching in the playoffs is different than coaching in the regular season. Sometimes you just take the points, especially if you are the better team, which they probably were last night despite all the injuries on defense. I totally got Quinn rolling the dice all night because he knew his defense couldn't stop the Lions (only Jared Goff could). Look at Fat Andy. FG, FG, FG, FG. Win by 3. Win is a win. All season, the Lions ran the score up on teams and I think that made them overconfident going into last night. Confidence is good, but over confidence is a killer.

As as aside, I love Johnsons play calling but the Williams pass was plain foolish. If you're going to run that play at that time, maybe someone less emotional than Williams. The play wasn't there but Williams throws it anyway, into double coverage. St. Brown probably would have taken a few yards and lived to fight another play.

Some coaches only know a few ways to coach and others, like Belichick and Sean Payton in his Super Bowl victory against the Colts, know how to make the right adjustments. I believe Campbell is more of the only a few ways to coach guys.

 

[IHEARTFF]

Last night Gibbs was carving up the WAS D almost every time he touched the ball. Yes I'm just a guy watching football on TV and I understand why these guys get paid the big bucks to coach and call plays, but for the life of me, I don't understand why you go away from Gibbs in that situation. If he gets 25-30 carries, I think DET wins that game. The Commanders had no answer for him.

If they don’t get that strip sack fumble when it was 7-3 Det driving then I think if they had gone up 14-3 they lean on Gibbs more and don’t do panic throws. That flipped the game and Lions coaches and Goff panicked as they got down 10.

 

[Brunell4MVP]

Obvi there's a winner and a loser in every game. One coach/QB is going to get criticized and the other praised. Mostly it comes down to the players on the field. Particularly the DL getting pressure, and the QB handling whatever that DL sends at them. These days there's rarely a clean pocket, rarely a perfectly blocked running play, and rarely a team that isn't playing backups at several postions. It's about the players adjusting pre-snap, then again post-snap, then having the athleticism to make it happen.

I think Campbell is a very good coach. His QB had a rough game. His D is depleted. His OC loves trick plays. WAS adjusted their scheme to make Gibbs life a bit tougher. I would have still fed him the ball. Campbell/Johnson lived with the plays that got him there, and it just didn't work this particular day.

Some coaches deserve intense criticism. But if you got a top 15 coach in the NFL, you have a good coach. The bottom 3-5 should go every year if they are consistently there.

I think the bigger story the last few years is a pocket QB is going to have a hard time. I love Stafford and Goff. So pure passing the rock. Good leaders. But they lack the feet that the modern QB needs given every other play breaking down somewhere. Even Burrow as pure as he is in the pocket ... he can move if needed. And obvi Jackson, Allen, Daniels, Mahomes ... all can kill a D out of the pocket.

 

[Ray_T]

Last night Gibbs was carving up the WAS D almost every time he touched the ball. Yes I'm just a guy watching football on TV and I understand why these guys get paid the big bucks to coach and call plays, but for the life of me, I don't understand why you go away from Gibbs in that situation. If he gets 25-30 carries, I think DET wins that game. The Commanders had no answer for him.

If they don’t get that strip sack fumble when it was 7-3 Det driving then I think if they had gone up 14-3 they lean on Gibbs more and don’t do panic throws. That flipped the game and Lions coaches and Goff panicked as they got down 10.

yeah, they just were not ready this year. True championship teams find ways to overcome this kind of adversity.

but you know, they will be another year older and wiser. This is still a young team and it would not surprise me if they did win a superbowl sometime in the next couple years. They are pretty close now. Its just a question of taking that next step. Sure the injuries were part of it. but they put a lot of pressure on the QB and that QB stood his ground and threw a strike with a guy in his face. I'm not sure many QB exist that could have done this.

 

[JohnnyU]

Last night Gibbs was carving up the WAS D almost every time he touched the ball. Yes I'm just a guy watching football on TV and I understand why these guys get paid the big bucks to coach and call plays, but for the life of me, I don't understand why you go away from Gibbs in that situation. If he gets 25-30 carries, I think DET wins that game. The Commanders had no answer for him.

If they don’t get that strip sack fumble when it was 7-3 Det driving then I think if they had gone up 14-3 they lean on Gibbs more and don’t do panic throws. That flipped the game and Lions coaches and Goff panicked as they got down 10.

yeah, they just were not ready this year. True championship teams find ways to overcome this kind of adversity.

but you know, they will be another year older and wiser. This is still a young team and it would not surprise me if they did win a superbowl sometime in the next couple years. They are pretty close now. Its just a question of taking that next step. Sure the injuries were part of it. but they put a lot of pressure on the QB and that QB stood his ground and threw a strike with a guy in his face. I'm not sure many QB exist that could have done this.

Getting Hutchinson back is a good start