I fault the play calling more than the decision. If Belichick was going to go for it, that decision had to be made before fourth down and they needed to play that series accordingly. On third and 2, if you've decided you're going for the first down no matter what, it seems to me the play call should be two runs, and you have to trust your offensive line that they can get a push forward for 2 lousy yards.
The game management in the last 7 minutes of that game was dismal. That bothers me more than going for it on fourth down. -- Matt ________________________________ From: Steve Gendron <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, November 16, 2009 8:59:34 AM Subject: RE: Football Numbers You guys are really drinking the Belichek Kool-aid. Are you really telling me that the chances of Manning scoring from the Colts 30 with no time outs are equal to that of them scoring on the Pats 30 under the same conditions? No matter how you slice it, it was a bad call. It cost the Patriots home field advantage in the playoffs, which can be the difference in a Superbowl drive. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Salemi >Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:45 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Football Numbers > >Steve O has cleverly summed up my numbers approach > > >It seems to make sense that the Patriots had a much better chance of making >two yards than they had of stopping the Colts. >> >I bow to his explanatory powers! > > >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
