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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
Someone just made that analogy.
It's a terrible analogy that makes no sense.
You can't do that in football.
A football possession is not the same thing as a basketball possession.
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Sorry, I missed that one. Its obviously not quite as simple as the basketball analogy, because you have to keep getting first downs in order to keep possession. I can admit that its not easy, particularly when ball control isn't a normal part of the offense, but my only point is we have a better chance of Pat getting first downs and milking the clock rather than putting one of the worst defenses ever against the best QB ever with the game on the line.
But the offensive philosophy was wrong on that second to last drive. I'm not mad about the Watkins play because they needed to get a first down at that point, and once we were in the red zone we did the right thing and ran the ball, which happened to score a TD. But the two previous plays were two deep balls, one to Watkins that drew the pass interference and then one to Tyreek in the endzone that was almost picked off. The level of urgency on those plays was not appropriate to the situation, we didn't need to be chucking balls into the endzone with 3 minutes on the clock.
I'm not a Reid hater but it really felt like the coach didn't understand the amount of time that was left in the game. We DID NOT NEED TO SCORE RIGHT AWAY, there was plenty of time and timeouts. And saying that the only other choice is to give Williams the ball up the middle is a false choice. We had one of the most creative offenses all year, with jet sweeps, run-pass option plays, actual option plays, screen passes. There are other options between passing the ball deep and running Williams up the middle.