Dan Campbell admits mistake in third-and-goal run that led to wasting a timeout

The biggest mistake Lions coach Dan Campbell made in his team's second-half meltdown against the 49ers was blowing a timeout on offense late in the game, rather than saving all three timeouts on defense to keep the 49ers from running out the clock at the end of the game. Campbell recognizes he made a mistake during the sequence of events that led up to that timeout.The Lions called a running play on third-and-goal, and when they were stopped the clock kept running, and they wasted a timeout at that point. Campbell acknowledges that if they weren't going to score a touchdown there, an incomplete pass and preserving their timeout would have been a much better option."Yeah, look the easy thing to do is to throw it," Campbell said, via MLive.com. "Probably should've been the right thing, but for me, I wanted to run it. I thought we would just pop it. We had just [run the 2-minute offense] all the way down the field, throwing the football, and they were in a four-down front and I believed we'd walk right in. And we just missed a block. So then, yeah, I've got to use a timeout. So, hindsight, throw it four times. But I believed in that moment it was going to be a walk-and-run, and it...