Good point.

And it’s gotten them 8-6. Someone should do an analysis to see if just playing straight up football without all the analytics would have gotten them More wins or about the same.

LOL

I hope they keep him as their coach for a long time. The wise coach went home with a W last night.

Exactly right.

Decisions were fine. Had players executed (Williams and Cook both dropped TD's in separate goal-to-go situations) no one would be having this conversation.

Honestly, the play where Parham got injured was a pure drop. The defender didn't really affect the play, the ground did.

It's been said for a few years now that you aren't going to beat the Chiefs with 3's. Other than the one right before the half that would have put them up seven I think he made the correct calls on the 4th down decisions. The challenge on the Kelce catch is iffy, but it looked to me that they were going to have to take a timeout there anyway on defense and they still had two challenges left so I didn't think that was an egregious mistake either.

Asshole had never coached at any level bigger than Div 3 until 4 years ago.

People are waaaaay too quick to crown this guy’s ass as a boy genius.

He might be a fine coach and will probably last longer than his predecessors, but let’s just cool it

This is a rare decent thread by Deberg, the discussion around Staley is interesting, don’t discourage him when he’s improving!

Same with the Williams drop the play or two before. Right through his hands.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The weird thing about the Chargers discourse is that Staley is *not* a coach who blindly follows the models- he&#39;s kicked plenty of times when models would say to go.<br><br>But last night he, in addition to every public model I&#39;ve seen, *all* thought it was right to go for it each time</p>&mdash; Computer Cowboy (@benbbaldwin) <a href="https://twitter.com/benbbaldwin/status/1471829743565742080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Translation: It's not about analytics or math with him. He was just scared.

Another young punk who thinks he's smarter than everyone despite not hitting puberty yet.

I agree coaches aren't aggressive enough, but when your team doesn't have it, you need to settle for the points. He should have got the message after the first one or two 4th down failures.

IDGAF what the analytics say. You kick that FG before half. You can't keep throwing up zero's that deep into Chief's territory. Getting points before having to kick off to the Chiefs to start the 3rd Qtr was a must have. Like I said, stuff your analytics up your ass. You take the points there.

Here Staley, you earned this
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Yes, they've been saying for a few years that you have to score early and often to beat the Chiefs, but they've been saying that as the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Chiefs put up huge point totals. The 2021 Chiefs have been "struggling" on offense. Making the decision to go for it on 4th down was probably the right thing to do if the situation had come up in prior years, but I'm not sure about it this year.