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Originally Posted by Bearcat
That's the whole problem... if you're scoring 3 or 4 touchdowns in a game and going for 2 every time only works out slightly in favor, you're still taking the risk that you're on the wrong side of that every single game, mutually exclusive of the times it works out.
Make the 2
Miss it
Make it
...yay, you have a whole extra point.
Miss the 2
Make it
Miss it
...well, -1 this game.
...and you don't know if you'll get that extra chance to make up for a miss.
Points are too valuable in any given game to simply say across 100 chances, you'll come out on top +5 points.
And idiots like Staley have ****ed it up plenty of times, overthinking it and going for (and missing) early, and then kicking EPs late when they should actually going for 2, etc.
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I was never in love with the ultra-aggressive Chip Kelly strategy of literally going for 2 every time, but I'll tell ya what, it sucked to play against that team. And I mean that both as a Chief fan when he was the Eagles coach and as a Duck hater when he was in Eugene.