Lions Are Eligible for Criticism
The fallout from the Detroit Lions eligibility fiasco continues with the NFL stating players must 'clearly' report.
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00:00 The fallout from the Lions loss continues with the NFL stating players need to clearly declare their eligibility and Dan Campbell calling out radio hosts
00:07 I think you know the Lions did this to themselves. They tried to get too cute. The refs got tricked and now they're still dealing with it.
00:14 I don't think they got too cute at all.
00:17 They got clearly on video
00:19 Reports to the refs and says he's eligible. If the refs are confused, that's on them.
00:25 Whether they sent two guys to him or not, one guy reported and the other didn't.
00:30 That's on the refs. I don't see what the confusion is about that.
00:35 The fact that no one actually knows exactly what happened is part of the confusion. The NFL has to state you know
00:41 you need to be more clear about it in this realm. The whole point of
00:44 declaring eligibility is so that the defense does know indeed who can catch a pass. In this case, the Lions were essentially trying to
00:52 trick them which Campbell admitted and therefore they outsmarted themselves.
00:57 Yeah, but that's part of game planning and scheming. You're trying to confuse the defense.
01:04 Teams do it every single week.
01:07 That's literally the part of the job.
01:10 The play worked. The refs messed it up, but the play did work.
01:14 It's no different than any like the Philly special when they won in 2017 was a trick play.
01:21 It didn't work. A trick play, but you're not trying to trick them as...
01:25 There's a difference between scheming and quote-unquote gamesmanship and the play didn't work because a penalty got thrown and they lost.
01:32 Because the refs messed it up.
01:37 And he talked to the referees before the game started about that said play. So that's on the referees.
01:44 Now look, it is what it is. They lost the game and ultimately the play messed up.
01:48 They had two more chances to try to knock it in or at the very least say, all right, this clearly isn't working.
01:52 We should restart the game.
01:54 As it pertains to the result of the game, listen, you had other opportunities, but for that play, nah, the refs messed it up.
02:02 Well, if you have to explain that scenario to the ref, you're probably doing too much.