Dan Dakich talks about what Dan Campbell did that led to the Lions’ loss.

Dan Dakich talks about what Dan Campbell did that led to the Lions’ loss.

Fans of the Detroit Lions were furious with head coach Dan Campbell for refusing to kick field goals to the second half of the National Football League Championship. Dan Dakich is also not letting them off the hook.

In the third quarter, the Lions were ahead 24–10 over the 49ers and had a fourth-and-2 from the 49ers’ 28-yard line. Campbell didn’t try a 45-yard field goal.

Instead, he kept the ball on the field. Josh Reynolds was wide open when Jared Goff found him, but Reynolds dropped the ball.

If they had made a catch there, the drive would have gone longer and they might have scored. That woulda-coulda-shoulda game isn’t being played by Dakich, though. Because the Lions had been making them feel bad. It was your only chance.

Dakich said that Campbell’s choice to go for it on fourth down was what won the game in the end. Because this stop gave San Francisco back their momentum. They had been having a hard time putting together an offense up to that point.

Dakich said, “The Lions had been pretty much running their way concerning the 49ers.” “You need to understand that every game is natural. The 49ers or their fans were not interested.

“The team that makes the fewest mistakes is more likely to win.” Campbell did something wrong. He made a big one. He did something that cost him his job. Also, it was an easy move: just kick a field goal.

We sometimes see people receive something so strange that it makes us say, “Dang!” We feel the same way about NFL coach Dan Campbell’s crazy coffee order.

While we’ve seen some crazy Starbucks orders before, Campbell’s would have to be up there with the best of them.

When asked how much caffeine he drinks every day, the head coach of the Detroit Lions casually said, “Usually, I get two ventis and start my day that way.”

Where I work, I order two Venti Pike drinks with two shots each. That’s why both are black. That’s what I bring in. “That’s how I begin the day.”

Campbell’s order isn’t like most coffee. To give you an idea, two venti cups in Pike Place brew with two shots of espresso each have a little more than 1,100 milligrams of caffeine. That is a lot for one person.

As expected, people on social media went crazy when they learned about Campbell’s strange caffeine habit. On X, which used to be called Twitter, someone wrote, “We need to study his heart.”

“Shockingly, an average Red Bull only has 80mg of caffeine, so that would be about 13.5 Red Bulls worth,” a different X user said.

“I’m having chest pain just thinking about drinking that much caffeine,” a third person said.

But Campbell doesn’t like cream or syrup in his coffee. He likes to drink a lot of coffee. He told The Athletic, “I want to taste my coffee along with my tobacco.”

Someone else might wonder how strongly he feels it. His Starbucks order is crazy because it has a lot more caffeine than the 400 milligrams that the FDA claims many “healthy adults” can handle.

But not everybody has the same limit or choice. Some people can’t handle as much caffeine as others, and some folks are more allergic to it than others.

“Yes, they got there because they were determined to succeed. Yes, “We want to play more accurately and efficiently than you, and we’re braver than you” got them there. He said, “We take greater chances than you.”

“But that was not yesterday.” It wasn’t yesterday. And that wasn’t a game against Carolina in Week 6 in North Carolina.

This wasn’t just any NFC Championship Game; it was one of a kind. You thought you had control of the game, but you didn’t.