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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
(Post 16017695)
I'll just say the same thing I said in the gamethread.
Had he taken every FG available to him on 4th down (and all of them were good) he'd have scored 15 points. As it stood, he scored 7. So a net loss of 8. That said, one of those 'net losses' was actually a conversion and then his idiot RB tried to extend from the 4 and lost a fumble at the 1. I have a hard time putting that one on him. Another required that Parnham scramble his eggs and lose a football that he had caught.
So even WITH the other two stops included, Staley could've/should've been at 21 points vs. 15.
It didn't work out - shit happens and the other guys get paid to play as well. But the logic behind it was extremely strong, IMO. Those are plays that his guys usually make. Tonight they didn't.
I hope he takes every FG he can if we face them again in the post-season and deep down I think the rest of you guys do as well. The last thing I want is a coach that is treating 3rd down like 2nd down every time he gets on our half of the field. The pressure that puts on the defense is immense and over time they WILL crack. Hell, last night ours DID. We just won the coin toss.
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When we stop them on 4th down surrendering 0 points, I hope he continues to go for it. It's unfathomably stupid.
This, without 3 of our best defenders.
I will gladly welcome this butt ****ing moron completely ignoring a way to put points on the board and giving us the chance to hold them to zero, and negatively affecting his players by watching all the work they put in, get NOTHING in return.
Do all the calculations you like. The guy left free points on the field to gamble.
In doing these gambles, he lost one of his players, and then he lost the game.
Wins are wins, whether by 1, or by 40.
To see a Chiefs team that outside of the Raider demolitions, was winning games with scores well under 30 points, hell, some under 20 points, and you can see now in the game that your defense is causing some major problems for them, to still think that you need 7 points every time because 3 isn't good enough, that's just dumb football.
Get your nose out of the math book, pay attention to what is happening in front of you, and call the game accordingly, and you're likely in first place in the afc west.
Instead, you're the jackass that wanted to gamble and lost repeatedly, never learning anything. Chasing points rarely ends well.
This is the type of gambler that comes out of the casino wearing a barrel because he didn't have sense enough not to keep gambling.