Costa and Jansen recap what went wrong in the Lions' 31-45 loss to the Washington Commanders on Saturday night, ending Detroit's amazing season.
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00:00Lot of phone calls processing it the feelings and the football right we asked you guys how you're feeling in the aftermath
00:07it's
00:09painful and
00:11It's a wasted season. It was a one seed. It was the number one offense and they committed five turnovers
00:20Yeah, I mean you're very right to be sad angry feel cheated feel empty because now all for what
00:27John to me the game came down to and you've said this games always kind of come down to a couple key pivotal plays, right?
00:36The players will look back and go one play here one play there to me. I want to focus on three plays
00:42The first has already been mentioned today
00:45Third and one empty set you're gashing them on the ground
00:49instead of going up 14 to 3
00:52It's a sack fumble. It's a tone setter
00:55They were they just weren't locked in
00:58The second one to me is the pick six your D's got it. Everybody knows it you're gonna have to score a bunch
01:03you can't also be giving up touchdowns when you're on offense and
01:06possible to win that way and the third one to me
01:11Was the 12 men on the field no timeout. That was a death blow up to that point. Hey, you're kind of hanging in
01:16You're you're taking their best shot. You're counter punching. You're still in this thing. You come out a half stop score
01:22You're in this thing rights three-point game fourth and two crowds getting on their feet. This is it. It's where we make our stand and
01:30We can't count to 11
01:32Actually, what makes it worse is we can count to
01:3511 and we don't call a timeout anyway
01:38So while I know Dan says my fault and he's not responsible for everything
01:42He's absolutely responsible for not calling a timeout there. It's indefensible inexcusable
01:46Yeah, and I mean I go over that one too, and it's not just
01:51Yeah, the coach has got to be able to see that and you know
01:54Whether it's somebody screaming on the sideline coach is the one that can call the timeout
01:58you can also have a timeout on the field and
02:01Whether you know whether it's Anzalone. It's Campbell
02:06You know the defensive set and you you should have an awareness
02:11You kind of do that mental checklist every time you're on the field and and that's where I'm not gonna say it's Anzalone's fault
02:19But he needs to have that awareness as well that
02:23You have this awareness of how many guys are on the field and you can also call that timeout you get you see that
02:29There's what we have an extra man. That is
02:32You know, we got two guys covering one guy like whatever it is. There's there's something in your mind
02:37I was always that guy on offense and it's a little bit easier because you huddled up
02:40Yeah, and it's a okay. We got five offensive linemen. We've got wait
02:44We get we get too many guys in the huddle timeout, right? That's where you have to have that awareness
02:49It's it's all about checks and balances has to come from the coach. You see that there's 12 guys on the field
02:55It's timeout
02:56It also can be done with with players on the field where you you just you know
03:01That there's 12 guys on the field that that's part of you've done this for 17 games
03:07You got Brady in the booth who sees it 10 seconds before it's even called like in it. That's my point eternity
03:13You are a professional football coach. This is it. You got a why let the play happen?
03:18You're just asking for them to throw the flag at that point. Why are you willfully giving them a first down?
03:23You have to I know these timeouts are gold knee. That's what he said the TJ after the game
03:27You know, you don't want to burn timeouts in the second half because you may need them at the end
03:30You need them right now because you're not about to go down 10 here in rally. You can't keep doing this
03:35Well, it's about the situation. You know, it's fourth down
03:37Yeah, and if you if you don't call the timeout, they automatically get a first down
03:42What's what do you think is gonna happen? You give them a fresh set of downs inside the five-yard line. Yeah
03:46I mean, come on
03:48You got to make your stand you burn a timeout there
03:50It sucks. Nobody wants to ideally you avoid 12 guys on the field before the snap. You gotta call a timeout there it John
03:57It's not the biggest reason but it was just indicative of the day
04:00They had where these mistakes we hadn't seen all season, you know false starts from the offensive line
04:08Turnovers from golf in
04:10Concert with a beat-up defense. It was the perfect storm they played
04:16The worst brand of football they could have possibly played and if you ask me to distill it to one thing
04:21To me I would put the most blame on the turnovers and I thought it was proven out in the other games this weekend
04:27Where the Rams commit a couple second half turnovers, they have a decent defense pretty good defense didn't matter. You can't overcome turnovers
04:34the Ravens
04:35Played a hell of a game in Buffalo can't overcome three turnovers
04:39Even if Detroit had Aiden Hutchinson Aleem McNeil Carlton Davis five turnovers in a playoff game
04:45So I know the injuries are gonna come up today to me. The biggest reason is the turnovers
04:49Yeah, it's you give a team like that more opportunities. You allow them to convert on fourth down without even taking a snap
04:56Defense struggled to stop them on a regular basis
05:00That's why that the the timeout on fourth down was one where you just simply take it
05:05Because you give them a fresh set of downs now
05:07They're expected to stop you might get a stop on a fourth down versus you give them the ball fresh set of downs inside
05:14the five-yard line
05:15Not likely that you stop to keep them out of the end zone two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven
05:20Let's get to Steve and Plymouth Steve. You're on ninety seven one
05:24Good morning guys boy. There's not enough time in the day today to discuss this this game, but
05:32You know, I'm listening to you guys and you guys were kind of making my point, you know, Jeric off paid played bad
05:37We you know, you know
05:40Even with his two turnovers or the two interceptions in the first half
05:45we're still supposed to win that game and and what I don't understand is at
05:52What point does Dan Campbell say to Ben Johnson
05:59Run the ball, right?
06:01They had they ran the ball 23 times
06:05Jameer Gibbs had a hundred and five yards on
06:0914 carries do the math. Yeah, seven yards a carry
06:16Yeah, I don't understand why we were still throwing the ball three times
06:22despite everything that happened three times the Lions went down scored got within three points and
06:29Yet the defense the commanders went right back down the floor
06:34The the field all three times and scored a touchdown
06:38So having said that bad defense today bad Jared Goff today
06:44We're running the ball as well as you could run the ball against a 30th ranked
06:50Run defense and football
06:52Why are we throwing the football?
06:55I don't see you're right because the run game has always been the answer the elixir, right?
07:00Keep your defense off the field help your offensive line engage
07:04Keep Jerry Goff clean and Steve your point is they wouldn't even be forcing it. It was working. It was there
07:10They ran for 201 yards in the football game. It was way where you could work well enough
07:16So it was like a well-oiled machine
07:19Running the football they scored they went right back down got down to the 16
07:25And then we had to get cute despite whether he fumbled the ball or not
07:29They put him in a position to get blindsided and fumble the ball
07:34I'm sorry run the frickin football agreed with that
07:40People talk, you know, I hear Dan Campbell all the time as long as we win my one point
07:45You know, and then I hear people talking about the Kansas City Chiefs, oh they just barely win
07:50They just built you know, what they win that defense had seven sacks on Saturday
07:55They blocked the field goal blocked an extra point, you know, they were prepared on defense. Our defense was
08:02Horrible. Yep, and so compounding that with Jared Goff's bad play at what point does Dan Campbell?
08:09Just take charge and say let's run the football
08:14Give the defense to break and let's do what we're doing best. I'm sorry
08:20Steve you don't have to apologize for anything today. I mean, this is this is how we do this. We talked through it. Yeah
08:26The emotions are all over the place right now. They're all over it for us. They're all over it for you
08:31You caught yourself getting fired up eight minutes show. He's like, whoa. Yeah
08:35There's some deep breathing off-air, I know it's just because it's it's I'm at the I'm in the anger phase
08:42because of
08:43the opportunity
08:45That they they did all the hard work
08:49They set themselves up for the best opportunity Dan Campbell talked about it at the beginning of the year
08:56It's you start with the end goal in mind. That's a Super Bowl. How do you get there the best way?
09:01Well, you you get the one seed you win the division you do all of these things. They checked all the boxes
09:10Deep breaths two four eight five three nine ninety seven ninety seven