On Sunday, the Detroit Lions had the opportunity to defeat the Oakland Raiders in the waning moments of their away game. The team, on the one-yard line, could have tied it up, and subsequently, send it to overtime, with a touchdown. Their play call to do so: a jumbo package, without the NFL's leader in receiving touchdowns (Kenny Golladay – seven) and his runner-up (Marvin Jones – six).

The result of the jumbo package was a failed 4th-and-1 attempt and a loss. Detroit's offensive coordinator, Darrell Bevell, defended the idea to swap two high-end receivers for an extra offensive lineman, two tight ends, a fullback and a running back.

We were on the 1-yard line, so we ended up going with goal-line package, which we practice all the time,” Bevell said, via Kyle Meinke of MLive.com. “We have a number of personnel groups, we have a number of formations that we line up in. I think as you could see during the game, felt like we, from the 1, we’re running the ball well enough during the game to be able to go with a little bit of a play-action. Thought we had good matchups, we had good size. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to execute it exactly the way we wanted to.”

Ultimately, Bevell chose to go big-on-big to win the game. Ultimately, it did not work and the Raiders left their home stadium with a win in the books. Ultimately, that will lead to a week's worth of criticism of the offensive coordinator, or perhaps more if Detroit fails to beat the Chicago Bears on Sunday.