Three yards. That’s how close Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown stood to Dan Campbell when everything almost fell apart. The Lions’ head coach, rocking unfamiliar eyeglasses and gripping a play sheet for his first game calling plays in Week 10, started rattling off instructions to quarterback Jared Goff. The play clock hit 17 seconds. Campbell was still talking.

Here’s the thing about NFL communication systems. At 15 seconds, the feed cuts off; radio silence. Campbell’s voice disappeared from Goff’s helmet mid-sentence, and only half the play call was transmitted. And Campbell lost it.

“I don’t think he got the last part of it. He didn’t get it out. So Dan was like, ‘f***’, because he felt like this is a play that could score,” St. Brown explained on his podcast. “D

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