Free Press sports writer Dave Birkett and columnist Shawn Windsor discuss Lions' tie with Cardinals, late timeout call, Sept. 8, 2019 in Arizona. Shawn Windsor and Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press
The natural inclination when a team blows a big fourth-quarter lead like the Detroit Lions did Sunday is to blame the play calling and suggest they went away from the strategy they used to take control of the game in the first place.
There’s an element of that in the Lions’ fourth-quarter meltdown against the Arizona Cardinals, especially offensively.