FOURTH DOWN: A WIN’S A WIN
Campbell said he’s going to enjoy his Thanksgiving with his family and he’s not going to lose a second of sleep after escaping with a win Thursday at home.
He also said there are things to clean up after Detroit let a 16-point halftime lead melt away, had troubles scoring in the red zone, turned it over inside the Chicago 5-yard line, missed a field goal, and had some untimely penalties.
“You know, if you’re not careful, you start grading your own wins, and it’s good because you have these standards – the way you think you should play, by your own standards, by what you have,” he said. “Has nothing to do with the opponent, it’s just you know yourselves, and you know what you’re capable of.
“And so, if you’re not careful, you start going too far down that thing. Then you start taking wins for granted. Ultimately, that’s a good win against an opponent that has fought every week. We did what we had to do to win. We’ll clean up the other stuff that cost us some points. I’m not worried about that. But I will take this ‘W’ and I’m not going to lose sleep over it.”
Goff said the red zone issues are something that definitely needs to be cleaned up.
“Obviously the turnover hurts and some of the penalties hurt, and then we just had some crap plays down there that we didn’t execute very well,” he said. “It just wasn’t our best performance in the red zone and we got to be better.
“We’ll learn from it, it’s good to learn from that stuff and get better. But that is a good unit in the red zone over there, but we had certainly had other opportunities to make plays that we didn’t make.”
