Sorry but this is a bad take. You play to win the game. No White Flags as Gleason would say. You play the full 60 minutes. I didn't see any hand signals between the coaches. It's simple. Both coaches lost count of the remaining time in the game after the interception and both coaches failed to realize that TB still had one timeout remaining. The confusion stemmed from the Buccaneers getting their timeout back after a successful challenge ruling earlier in the 2nd half.
As an aside, we've seen just the opposite in the past in the playoffs when McCarthy and Prescott thought that they had a timeout remaining that they didn't.
The fact of the matter is that neither coach realized that TB had one timeout remaining. If the Campbell had, the Lions would have ran the play clock all the way down after each play. If the Bowles knew he had a timeout left, he would have called it at some point to try to get the ball back even if it was for only a second to try one last play to win the game.
It was poor clock management by Campbell and bad situational game awareness by the entire Lions club. After the 3rd down play, Bowles should have realized he had one timeout left and called it with 36 seconds left in the game with it being 4th down. The Bucs would have gotten the ball back down by 8 points with a chance to tie the game in regulation. Instead, the Bucs just forfeited any chance they had to win the game. Imagine the responses here had that been the Saints.
"With the season on the line, a team should be doing everything possible to win. The Buccaneers just let the last 36 seconds run off the clock and took their timeout into the offseason."
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