Quote:
Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni
Ken pom boy will never understand
|
There's gonna be a time I'm going to want to go for it in a really similar situation.
And it's gonna look inconsistent. But it won't be.
The Bengals and Lou Anarumo just make things really hard for us. Have for several years. And Rankins actually played quite well (made a couple of really nice plays, one of them saved a TD, IMO).
Additionally, we struggled to involve our TEs, Worthy hasn't proven himself in the red-zone, Perine hasn't quite found his footing in the offense yet and we don't have Hollywood. We were so confident in our ability to just line up and gain a yard that we resorted to Tackle Eligible plays in the 3rd quarter to punch it in.
This just wasn't a situation that dictated going for it on 4th down. It was WAY too early to start chasing points and we'd just gotten our lunches stolen by the Bengals interior DL.
To say nothing of the fact that Reid simply doesn't like exposing Mahomes on those sorts of plays. If you're going to give Mahomes a 'Run or pass' scenario, it's going to be a one-read play where he's going to tuck it if he doesn't like the look and we've seen that Reid simply doesn't love doing that unless we're late-season or the playoffs.
There are a ton of reasons why the FG made more sense and they're all context specific.
"But ESPN says..." ain't.
Slavish adherence to 'what the statistics say' is like claiming The Big Bang Theory is funny. It's something dumb people do to make themselves feel smart.