How the hell did the Bears lose that game? I was at a bar, The Full Shilling, with Benny Baseball, JC, Jorge, Eric and Erica (all from softball) celebrating the Bears come from behind victory on the back of Kyle Orton. There were only 11 seconds left, what could the Falcons possibly do?
Well, start off with a squib kick from Gould. What?!? Why give them a chance to be closer than they need to be?? Kick it off to the fucking end zone you douchebag!!! ARRRRGGGGHHH!!!!
But no. He didn't. A Falcon picked it up on the 34 and ran it back 10 yards with 6 seconds still left. THAT'S why you kick it to the endzone!!!! Put them at the 20 with 11 seconds or if they run it back, somewhere around the 30 with fewer than 5 seconds left. Unbelievable.
Your 8th string corner in is the game and he gets burned for 26 yards AND....AND...lets the MFer get out of bounds to stop the clock with one second left. Then they kick a 48 yard field goal. Unfuckingbelievable.
We've lost three games by a TOTAL of 7 points. We could easily be 6-0. FUCK!!!
Here's an article describing what happened.
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I always thought that in those kickoff situations, teams tend to be too afraid of giving up long kickoff return -- something that happens maybe 10% of the time -- that they squib it and give the other side better field position, on average, than they would otherwise get.
Put another way, football teams are too risk averse. Statistically speaking, teams ought to go for it a lot more on 4th down too, but rarely do.
Yeah, I read a study that said something like NFL teams should go for it on 4th down all the time and especially if they are already outside of the oppositions field goal range.
Can't imagine how soon a coach would get fired for doing it though.
And you're right, they are WAY too risk adverse.
so calm about the market, so riled up about football...
As I think about that study I read, in Discover Magazine I believe, it was modeled around 4th and less than 5 yards to go. A somewhat important point.
You are an angry man..!
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