Absolutely.

Especially as mental health continues to be an emphasis. It is probably almost as important as strategic planning nowadays.

I would have not challenged the catch and taken the FG at the end of the half. Otherwise I think he made the right calls. I’m not going to criticize decisions that will pay off over the long term.

At the end of the half you don’t get the benefit of the other teams bad field position if you miss the kick is the reason I would have taken the points then.

And it's probably Andy Reid's strongest attribute.

Big Red is always calm, never flustered, always takes responsibility when things go wrong and deflects praise when it goes right.

Mahomes does it too. It makes the entire team want to play their heart out for them.

That's what good leaders do.

His going for it on 4th down is better than DeBerg thread

pay off over the long term?

He threw away the division championship and a good shot at the #1 seed.

They'd have to play a whole 'nother game to reach the SB.

When your opponent is shooting themselves in the foot, you take the points.

You stack those 3's.

Yep.

Dumb, dumb, and dumb. Analytics be damned.

I agree. I've mentioned before but there are so many variables besides just taking into account how teams did historically every time they went for it on "4th and 3" or whatever.

That first one was probably the worst. It was 4th and 5 after 3 straight incompletions. The first points are often the hardest points to get on the board. All of the other ones were questionable as well.

Bisaccia's decision making is better than a DeBerg thread.

This basically seals it for me. Staley was scared shit-less of Patrick Mahomes and went for the kill shot every single time.

If the Chiefs or Pats make the Super Bowl, their achievement was likely aided by this game. Every team needs a little good fortune and enemy mistakes to make the big game. That is no shame in it. It is the nature of competition.

What would Harbaugh do... probably kick with pimplebert

**** him.

Just another guy who gets beat by a real big head coach in a real big game.

Just like the Browns head coach. Prepped his team for 7 months for opening day 2021 and was all but anointed a genius.

Think back to the Chiefs’ regular season game vs Tampa last year.

Andy kicks a 19 yard FG, instead of going for it on 4th down on their opening offensive drive.

It was a conservative decision, but Andy explained that after watching his team struggle to execute on the earlier downs near the goal line, it seemed like the right decision based on the game flow, etc.

As it turns out the Chiefs win the game by 3 points.

Great HC’s have that gut feeling/pulse of their team/intangible instincts that analytics can’t help you with.

That’s the difference between a HOF HC such as Andy Reid and an analytics whore such as Staley.

:eek:

That is simply amazing.