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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Yes - I know what the people on ESPN say.
I also know that we lost a playoff game with this 'logic'.
I know we saw the Eagles just lose a game because of it. And we've won multiple games by defying it the last several years.
No, nothing on that drive indicated we were 'quite likely' to get a score. Nor does pinning them mean much given that Mahomes threw the most boneheaded pick he's thrown in quite some time the next time he had the ball in his hands.
Again - you insist on operating in theory when we've seen what happens in practice over and over and over again on this very team. Context matters more than large numbers and the context is that even WITH Mahomes, we struggled like hell to move the ball all day. We've struggled in short yardage situations for a fairly long time.
You can't just say "Because Mahomes" and ignore what's happening on the field, no matter how badly you'd like to do so.
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I don't watch ESPN. We don't even get it here.
Still doesn't change the fact that kicking a FG on the 1 in the first quarter of a 3 point game is the wrong move and no amount of pleading about "context" will change that. The conversion rate on such plays is 65% and even if you account for the fact that they were struggling with Anarumo again, it's still better than a coin flip.
Again, not scoring there is a perfectly acceptable outcome at that stage of the game even if they they don't get it given the field position advantage. And odds are, they probably would have.