Was Dan Campbell Right?
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Rico and Jim revisit Dan Campbell's decision-making in the NFC Championship game following last night's blunders by Kyle Shanahan.
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| 0:00.0 | Came empty-handed today, sorry buddy. |
| 0:03.0 | 97-1. |
| 0:05.0 | Day after the Super Bowl. |
| 0:08.0 | Okay, let's lay some groundwork here. |
| 0:13.0 | We all watch that Super Bowl differently this year. |
| 0:16.0 | The lions were as close as they've ever been, they're on the cusp. |
| 0:19.0 | The question is, how close are they? |
| 0:20.0 | When you looked at how those two teams played in the Super Bowl, a sloppy, fumble-ridden, low-scoring game, |
| 0:29.6 | you probably thought, hey, the lions showed up, they played clean, they had a shot. How close are the lions showed up they played clean they had a shot how close are |
| 0:34.2 | the lions after watching those two teams and RICO as I watch that game I |
| 0:39.4 | I look at Dan Campbell and I had one very obvious takeaway. |
| 0:45.0 | The man was right. |
| 0:48.0 | There's a specific play I want to go to. |
| 0:52.0 | It's fourth and three in the fourth quarter a field goal ties the game |
| 0:56.7 | Kyle Shanahan out of character decided to go for it and he got it and he scored a touchdown |
| 1:04.8 | Those are the type of plays you have to make in the playoffs to win you can't settle for field goals and win |
| 1:11.6 | Dan Campbell was right to go for it on fourth and two and fourth and |
| 1:14.8 | three against the Niners in the NFC title game. It didn't work, but it was the right |
| 1:18.6 | decision and I felt even better about Dan Campbell as a head coach watching Kyle Shanahan have just one moment of bold play calling and otherwise being very uninspiring. |
| 1:31.0 | Did you look at Dan Campbell any differently after watching the Super Bowl? |
| 1:36.0 | Seeing how, hey, teams settle in for field goals are just waiting to lose, whereas he was playing to win. |
| 1:40.0 | And even Kyle Shanahan, Mr. Conservative, went for a fourth and three, passed up a chance to tie the game, played for the lead. |
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