Jim Murray: I’d fire Dan Campbell today
The Detroit Lions blew a 24-7 halftime lead to the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday’s NFC Championship game and Lions head coach Dan Campbell made some questionable decisions that led to their demise. On Monday’s Felger and Mazz, Jim Murray gave his thoughts on Campbell’s play calling and why he’d fire Campbell for the decisions he made.
Murray’s thoughts on Dan Campbell’s play calling….
Jim Murray: I don’t think this has really anything to do with analytics. The analytics community supports this. They back them up on this. They support the decision. I think this moron just goes by his gut. He’s proven that at different points this year. The loss to Dallas when he’s back at like the 25, “no, we’re still going to go for it”, rather than kicking the extra point, you moron. And so my problem with this is that it’s like once you make the decision when you play blackjack, you hitting on 17? Then you hit on 17 for the rest of the night, that’s what you’re doing. He decided to reluctantly, when I was still screaming at my television the first half, to kick that field goal to go up three scores. You could tell he really didn’t want to do it, but he realized for a half second there, “no, this is actually the prudent thing to do. I’ll take the three”. Once you break that seal, that’s what you do the rest of the night, you dunce. So once he elected to go for it there and they didn’t get it, I don’t know about you, I called Game Over. I put it out on Twitter. That was done, you idiot. He completely deflated that game and his team and he cost them. He cost them. And they won’t be back. That’s it. Just like last year’s Eagles. Your ’06 Chargers. Your 2020 Packers. Good luck. That’s it going forward. I’d fire him. Honest to God I would fire him. I’d fire his ass today. He’s that stupid. He cost them. Great story….up until it wasn’t.