The analytics supported it, and Dan Campbell said the look was there.
But had the Detroit Lions run a different play on third down, Campbell said they would not have needed to go for the highly-scrutinized fourth-and-1 they failed to convert late in Sunday's win over the Minnesota Vikings.
"If I could have a play over in that game, it wouldn’t have been the fourth-and-1, it would have been the third-and-2 right before it," Campbell said Monday. "That’s the one I regret. Cause I wish that I’d given a better play to Jamaal Williams there and we wouldn’t even have been sitting in a fourth-and-1.