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Originally Posted by mililo4cpa
While I'm a big fan of metrics and statistics, there is something to be said about real world discretion that should offset pure math.....
And I even liked the 4th down call, because I thought that the winner was going to be in the high 20s - low 30s.....so playing for those points made sense, and they should have gotten it too (Rivers has too much experience to miss that throw, but then again, he's Rivers!). But I also understand the other side of it, as even if the Bills scored before half, you're down 1 at halftime if you kick the field goal. To come up dry there was big....
The XP was the biggest WTF moment I've seen in a long time....Don't care what "analytics" say there. If you make it, it does little to nothing to help you win, and if you miss, then you're chasing points the rest of the game....
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Mostly I subscribe to the Ditka mantra of "never take points off the board."
However, I don't mind going for it when I think nearly everything's in my favor.
But I didn't like the 4th down call. It's the end of the half; take the points. Go for it some time in the 2nd half. Also, I really didn't like the actual play. If you're going to run it run something that isn't going to risk losing 4 yards.