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Originally Posted by DRM08
At least Cleveland was leading the game when he did it. My school had a RB pull this stunt at the end of a game Saturday while we were still trailing. Fortunately our kicker made the FG to win the game as time expired, but it was one of those situations that could have easily backfired on us.
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Uhhh. That kid does NOT get it.
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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Marty made decisions based on "safe" probabilities. Those decisions almost ALWAYS led to playoff disappointment.
Prevent defenses, going away from the pass to protect a lead, etc.
I know it sounds odd to think about "karma" but we lived it as fans for a good 15 years until Peterson was gone.
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Agreed. Statistics was many moon ago but either case has enough of a sample size to have a statistically significant sample size to compare against. So if you’re going on just numbers I’d push back. I get it, but we’re out here to score Touchdowns and get stops. Anything other than that is asking for trouble IMO.
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Originally Posted by DaFace
Again, though, everyone's ignoring the chance of injury. Even if you don't think it makes any difference whether you score or go down, there's no question that there's a far greater chance of injury if you're forced to play out the final minute with a bunch of aggressive, downfield throws than there is during two kneel downs.
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Fair point about injuries.
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Originally Posted by htismaqe
I guess. I'm just overly averse to playing the game that way. PTSD.
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You’re goddamned right PTSD. I guarantee half this board would just assume we’d fumble the snap Pre-Mahomes. DaFace doesn’t believe in Karma or football gods or whatever, but there is no doubt the Chiefs have an abnormally high rate of pulling defeat from the jaws of victory. And Cleveland does too.