oldmanfan

The Fish will walk out of the tunnel into the wind and snow and totally decompensate. Especially Cutler.

The money and greed was why I listed that before injury risk as a factor affecting the league. Mark Cuban said greed would ruin the NFL and he may have a point. You're already seeing on line sites wanting to stream games. If the average fan who wants to turn on CBS or NBC is told they have to pay to watch, it will be interesting to see how many say forget it. Plus the league is increasingly worried about in stadium attendance. Not to mention the falloff in quality of play with Thursday night games and such. Factors such as these will begin to affect advertising revenues if the league doesn't recognize the potential harm.

It has a good short term future but two things threaten its viability. One is the greed of the owners. If they take games off the normal networks and start charging premiums they'll lose fans and revenue. The second are parents. How many parents will decide to not allow their kids to play because of short and long term health problems? Great topic.

He had one solo tackle and two assists against the Raiders according to the box score. He showed nothing in training camp and they traded him. Should the coaching staff now just ignore what they see in camp?

well then let's fire the coach.

Because they won the game. It's a pretty simple reason. This was all covered yesterday ad nauseum. I would have run for it on 4th down but after thinking through it I understand his thought process. And it boils down to exactly what he said: field position. Everyone wants to ignore the giant elephant in the room: weather conditions. They had gone for it I believe twice on fourth down and come up empty. So his view in a game like that is field position was paramount. Pinning them down in their end opens up possibilities of a safety, and gave you better field position. Just less than half the time in OT was still on the clock. You stop them deep, you gain field position when they punt. Puts you in a better spot to win. It took them two series to stop them vs. one which affected what they had to do to pull out the win, but that doesn't change the logic of the decision. As for them being lucky, the QB made an excellent throw and the WR made an excellent catch. Then Richie made a great block and Shady made a great run. why is it when the Bills make great plays they're lucky but when other teams do it they're great plays?

Except, of course, that he was right.

But better than a loss.

But not as bad as a loss.

I agree about the timeout.

The probability of them making it on fourth you can't determine from historical context because of the huge variable of the weather. They had not made two fourth downs earlier in the game which likely influenced decision making.

It actually took guts to give the ball up and rely on yourD at that point. You can disagree with the decision but calling it gutless is dumb.

Show me how you do. Oh wait, you can't.

When you take grad level stats and use them every day to plan experiments, analyze patient data, review manuscripts for professional journals, get back to me about proper use of statistics.

I guarantee I know more about statistics and science than 90% or more than others here. Yes I would have gone for it. But I also understand his thoughts and it worked out.

In his mind he did what he thought would give him the best chance and he was right. Maybe not next time. But this time yes.

Oh I suspect they'll lose because the Pats are on a whole different level. But you have no idea that they will absolutely lose. Yes. Which meant they were still in it in such a scenario. Slim chance of course but still in it.

Just out of curiosity, if you had some bad illness and the doc said they can try something with a 3% chance of success do you take it or just say you're ready to kick the bucket?

Great. Given your ability to see the future can you pick a stock or two for me?

Should be amusing

We'll never know for sure of course. But if this coach said grass is green some here would say he's wrong

Yeah. Why worry about that pesky math stuff?

Who cares about the draft when you are trying to get to the dance?

We all know if they had run on fourth down and not made it the same folks would be screaming that he should have punted

I would have gone for it, but have discussed why I think he did what he did in several other posts today. His thought process proved correct in the end. Next time maybe not. And such are management decisions in any field of endeavor under the sun.