Dan Campbell is taking matters into his own hands. Having yet to hear from the NFL about the apparent delay of game that went uncalled against the Ravens on the snap prior to Justin Tucker's game-winning field goal in the Lions' Week 3 loss to Baltimore, Campbell told the Stoney & Jansen Show Tuesday morning, "I’m probably going to make a call today, just to ask about a couple things."
"It’s hard to do that because I don’t know what I’m going to get out of it, so you're almost just peeling that Band-Aid off and rehashing the wound," Campbell said. "But I probably will make a call because there’s another call in there that I want to ask about."
Asked which call, Campbell said the officials were "pumping the (play) clock for the offense" when Lamar Jackson was sacked out of bounds on 3rd down with 26 seconds to play. The Ravens kept the game alive by converting 4th and 19 the next play.
"When Lamar ran out of bounds and they’re running out of time, they pumped it for them and I didn’t know why -- just the play clock," Campbell said.
The play clock had ticked down to 14 seconds on fourth down when it jumped back up to 25 seconds and then down again to 18 before the Lions called a timeout. It started at 25 seconds coming out of the timeout.
Two plays later, on second down from Detroit's 48, the play clock on the TV broadcast hit zero nearly two full seconds before the Ravens snapped the ball. A delay of game penalty would have pushed them back five yards and likely out of field goal range.
Campbell said after the game he was expecting a next-day apology from the NFL that "doesn't mean anything," but it never came. On Tuesday, the NFL can expect to hear from Campbell.