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Originally Posted by Beemnseven
Yep. You go with what works and what had been working. Campbell was on target yesterday, then they tried to get cute and fake everybody out on a draw play.
I'd be willing to bet that Gibbs was ready to settle for three to begin with, and put it on the backs of the defense, who'd been scorched all day by Westbrook. It's the same strategy we've seen all year.
Are we honestly going to assume that the defense is going to be lights out and close the victory every single time? Why not let the offense do it for a change?
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We were definitely trying.
We didn't succeed. Why does the blame for that automatically fall on the coaching staff? Why? I need a reason.
What reason did we have to think that throwing the ball from the seven would be an automatic touchdown?
First and goal at the three, you are going to score a TD 80% of the time. 80% is not a certainty. Once you get backed up to the 7 on third down, that's now like 30-35%. Obviously the 3rd down call isn't what ruined our chances to score.
4 mins to go, no timeouts, and 70 yards to go each one of them need for a touchdown is pretty steep odds to win. I would not have passed up a chance to put a team in that position. To me, that
is going for the jugular.
Once you have them down to those slim odds, you just have to execute. On the screen pass, we just got lazy. That's why we lost.