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Great column. Lions Coach stubbornly refuses to show any remorse in his decision making. He is a stand up man, but refusing to take 3 points bit his team in the end (pun intended)

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The WSJ had an article that supported Campbell’s decisions. Basically, the math says that going for it under those circumstances increases the team’s chances of winning (at least by a little bit). A key point is that a long field goal is hardly automatic. Had he followed conventional wisdom and failed, nobody would have criticized him, but (as Greg Olsen noted in his commentary) there was no reason to think that Campbell would alter the tactics that he followed all season merely because he didn’t want to be criticized. At the end of the day the Lions lost to the better team.

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