Arguably the greatest coach of our era, Bill Bellichik made one of the worst decisions I have ever seen a NFL head coach make last night. I'm sure everyone has heard all about it so I'm not going to explain what happened, but my take:
I am one of the biggest "go for it" guys around. I think NFL coaches are absolutely crazy in their old-fashioned ways of punting and settling for field goals. Case in point: yesterday, Andy Reid three times allowed the Eagles to settle for field goals inside the San Diego 10 yard line. One on literally the one-inch line. Another time with a 4th and 1. And another time goal-to-go at the seven. Each time the Eagles were down multiple scores at the time. It's simple math Andy. You got 3 fg's = 9 points. You convert once and punch it in that's 7. Two times 14. And you might even pull off all three for 21. It just doesn't make sense to settle for FG's inside the ten.
It also doesn't make sense to punt on 4th and 3 or less in the opponents territory. In today's NFL that is such a high percentage conversion that it's absolutely crazy not to go for it. When you're on your own 28 with 2 minutes left, however, you simply can't go for it. This is a case of Bill letting his ego get in the way. Yeah, if they convert the media would probably call you a genius, personally I'd still think it was a ridiculous chance that put your team in harms way. Can't do it, just can't do it.
Around the rest of the league: The Bills are atrocious, back to Earth Dallas, back to Earth some more Denver.
And a huge, improbable win by the Bengals who are now in second place in the AFC and trying to secure a bye, much as Ocho Cinco predicted in his infamous battle on 1st and 10 with Skip Bayless before the season. All praises due, 8-5.
In college football: USC is in fact terrible. Florida, Texas and Alabama are still the cream of the crop....and I'm glad everyone is going to be all over a TCU team that beat Utah. Let me tell yous something, Utah is terrrrrrible this year. Somehow, they were ranked, when anyone paying attention knows the team is dreadful this year. The entire MWC is and I don't want to hear about TCU and how they should be in the National Championship match. They'll get smoked when they play a real team, mark my words.
And I love the small schools, but the hype surrounding a team that quite frankly, isn't that good is ridiculous.
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