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Jeff Fisher made a stupidly cautious call when his team needed a risk and a stupidly risky call when his team needed caution

Bad decision #1: Fisher kicks a FG from the 3-yard line down 7 with 5:55 to go

It’s easy to explain why this is a poor decision. They needed a touchdown, and chose not to attempt to score a touchdown.

If they had gone for the touchdown and missed, they would have needed to get a stop and score a touchdown. Instead, they kicked a field goal, meaning that... they needed to get a stop and score a touchdown.


Bad decision #2: Fisher opts for a fake punt on 4th-and-5 from his own 23 with 3:47 to go

Fisher looked vindicated when Los Angeles got a stop. Hooray! They’d get the ball back! But they went 3-and-out just as quickly, needing a punt.



The team needed a touchdown. Fisher could’ve asked his offense to go three yards to get one, but he didn’t, and instead was left asking his punt team to pick up five yards in hopes that his offense would pick up 70 yards after a successful conversion.