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Originally Posted by Wallcrawler
Not if he's an all or nothing coach that limits his football team's ability to score points.
Imagine a team being penalized somehow with a rule that says you can not kick field goals for a certain period of time.
It would be outrageous.
But this dude willingly does it to himself. I hope he's their coach forever.
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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.