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The Lions were 1–6, and the defense was a mess, and all the great moments from Hard Knocks a couple months earlier were threatening to become punchlines.
No one needed to tell coach Dan Campbell how critical a juncture his team was at.
“Hey man, we’re this close,” Campbell told his players, holding his two fingers about an inch apart. “It’s one play.”
Had it been another coach, the message may have gone in one ear and out the other.