Do you think coaches collaborate?

[Just Jack]

Do you think during pre-season the head coaches get together and ask each other if they can run different scenarios during the game to see how their off/def work in those situations? 

[Ann]

I doubt it. They watch film though and can see what Coach A and Coach B do in situation X.

Are you referring to the last two minutes yesterday? It seemed a tad crazy what Dan Campbell did after the Bills scored that final FG. Why wouldn't he have called something to win the game? Maybe so other coaches wouldn't know what he'd call in such a situation in the future? (Although with 15 seconds left, I think we can all guess a few long bombs to get into field goal range.)
 

The Lions lost their preseason opener, 16-15, to the Buffalo Bills on Tyler Bass’ 44-yard field goal with 15 seconds to play, but Campbell walked away mostly pleased with his team’s performance.
 

“We said we wanted to give ourselves a chance to win at the end of the game, and even for a preseason game we did do that,” Campbell said. “We were in it at the end. Certainly, we all know it’s not good enough, but this is also about evaluating the talent and giving these guys an opportunity to run the ball, catch the ball, pressure. Stunt. Cover. All those things, and so we got a really good look at guys.”