Game 7 - Packers @ Lions - Sunday, Oct. 25th @ 3:25 PM

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8 minutes ago, SeaBass said:

The Lions absolutely would have scored a TD if they'd needed it, their guy downed himself before he got to the end zone on their final play before kicking the FG. You know Campbell would go for 2 as well if it would have meant a win.

It got overlooked because of all the many other things going on in this game but the Packers really botched the strategy at the end there. 

If they planned to let the Lions score the time to do it was with 2:30 left when Gibbs got them down to the 25.

After Brooks jumped to make it 1st and 10, it was pointless, the Lions aren’t dumb and knew exactly what we are trying to do and didn’t fall for it. The only hope was to keep them from getting another 1st and force them to kick and if they had done that we still would have had 20-30 seconds to get into FG range, but because we purposely let them pick up a huge chunk of yards on 1st down we screwed the pooch on it from the get go. Actually we are fortunate that Gibbs didn’t pick up the 1st down first and then go down which he well could have done.