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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
Yeah, I do. I dont live here, I dont post whore, and i have sone opinions on Andy Reids decisionmaking in tight games that triggers a lot of Reid apologists here.
I have more positive rep than bad, i have more liked posts than disliked.
You either have bad luck and only see me critiquing Andys decisions, or you dont read all the threads.
I do find it quite entertaining though, that I'm lately being painted as an anti Chiefs troll. Laughing makes the long days easier, so its helping.
Maybe before you paint me with the troll brush, you could objectively look at what im saying from my side. Hell, pretend im insane and just play devils advocate.
Game on the line. You have the best player on the planet, shredding Baltimore with the spread offense.
You could put the game in his hands, or you can give the ball to tbe worst running back in the league. Not just visually worst, statistically as well.
If you cant see how someone pointing out that the ball was in the wrong persons hands in the first place is a valid point, the theres no need to continue discussion.
Other things went wrong. Yes. But all that was over. What you want is to be at the end of a game, with a chance to win.
Despite everything else, the Chiefs were in position to win the game at the end. Andy simply chose to take the ball out of Patrick's hands.
I thought we were paying Patrick half billion dollars for these very situations. Not to turn and hand off for 2 yard losses.
Maybe i was wrong. Seems expensive though.
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Football 101.
You're down by one. You have the ball in FG position, 1:24 to go, 3rd and 2. Your defense has been a disaster all game long. You need to eat some more clock.
An incomplete pass is a bad thing, it stops the clock.
A complete pass in bounds is great, you get the first and you can eat some more clock. Even the best QB in the world is going to fail 30% of the time here.
A run for no yards or a loss is a win; you have to kick, but at least the clock still runs. Ravens get the ball back with like...less than a minute.
A run for 2+ yards is great; you get the first, and you can run more clock.
The only thing that screws this up? A turnover.
What do you do? You run the ****ing ball, dumbass.
Stastically speaking, that's the smart thing to do in that situation.
This time it didn't work out. Doesn't mean you don't do it. It was the smart move.