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I guess Pittsburgh is giving up on the season. I see no logixal reason to go for the onside kick.

 

They don't have faith in their defense and felt they could catch GB off guard with an onside kick, I guess.

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I guess Pittsburgh is giving up on the season. I see no logixal reason to go for the onside kick.

 

They don't have faith in their defense and felt they could catch GB off guard with an onside kick, I guess.

 

It was a crazy call but it was a yard from working.

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And since GB didn't have to drive 70-80 yards, Pittsburgh now has two minutes to go down the field.
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And since GB didn't have to drive 70-80 yards, Pittsburgh now has two minutes to go down the field.

I still think it was a bad move, especially in today's game where you never get a 2nd try.

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I guess Pittsburgh is giving up on the season. I see no logixal reason to go for the onside kick.

 

They don't have faith in their defense and felt they could catch GB off guard with an onside kick, I guess.

 

It was a crazy call but it was a yard from working.

 

It's always a yard from working. Either a guy gets it 9 yards from the spot of the kick or a guy is one yard short from being able to grab it in the air before a defender can or it goes out of bounds 11 yards from the spot of the kick.

 

I look at it like this. Onside kicks work IIRC 10% of the time so Tomlin was essentially saying he believes his defense had less than a 10% chance to stop GB from taking the lead. I think we can all agree Pittsburgh would have stopped GB at least 1 out of 10 times in that situation speaking hypothetically obviously.

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I guess Pittsburgh is giving up on the season. I see no logixal reason to go for the onside kick.

 

They don't have faith in their defense and felt they could catch GB off guard with an onside kick, I guess.

 

It was a crazy call but it was a yard from working.

 

It's always a yard from working. Either a guy gets it 9 yards from the spot of the kick or a guy is one yard short from being able to grab it in the air before a defender can or it goes out of bounds 11 yards from the spot of the kick.

 

I look at it like this. Onside kicks work IIRC 10% of the time so Tomlin was essentially saying he believes his defense had less than a 10% chance to stop GB from taking the lead. I think we can all agree Pittsburgh would have stopped GB at least 1 out of 10 times in that situation speaking hypothetically obviously.

 

I didn't see the onside kick but a surprise onside kick definitely works more than 10% of the time. I'm sure this one qualified as a surprise. The 10% recovery rate is for the vast majority of onside kicks where everyone in the stadium knows its coming.

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I guess Pittsburgh is giving up on the season. I see no logixal reason to go for the onside kick.

 

They don't have faith in their defense and felt they could catch GB off guard with an onside kick, I guess.

 

It was a crazy call but it was a yard from working.

 

It's always a yard from working. Either a guy gets it 9 yards from the spot of the kick or a guy is one yard short from being able to grab it in the air before a defender can or it goes out of bounds 11 yards from the spot of the kick.

 

I look at it like this. Onside kicks work IIRC 10% of the time so Tomlin was essentially saying he believes his defense had less than a 10% chance to stop GB from taking the lead. I think we can all agree Pittsburgh would have stopped GB at least 1 out of 10 times in that situation speaking hypothetically obviously.

 

You also have to factor in the time as well. Because of the short field, the Packers gave the Steelers 2 minutes to drive back down the field. Had the Steelers forced Green Bay to drive 80 yards, the Packers likely would have just kicked a game-winning field goal.

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It's always a yard from working. Either a guy gets it 9 yards from the spot of the kick or a guy is one yard short from being able to grab it in the air before a defender can or it goes out of bounds 11 yards from the spot of the kick.

 

I look at it like this. Onside kicks work IIRC 10% of the time so Tomlin was essentially saying he believes his defense had less than a 10% chance to stop GB from taking the lead. I think we can all agree Pittsburgh would have stopped GB at least 1 out of 10 times in that situation speaking hypothetically obviously.

 

You also have to factor in the time as well. Because of the short field, the Packers gave the Steelers 2 minutes to drive back down the field. Had the Steelers forced Green Bay to drive 80 yards, the Packers likely would have just kicked a game-winning field goal.

 

This is true. Still though playing the percentages I would still say kicking it deep would have been the better move.

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A touchdown here and Ben goes over 500 yards on the day

 

And he's on my bench. I have Brees and Schaub. Not that it really matters cause I will still make the championship in that league as long as Steve Smith maintains a 21 point lead against Giants defense (defenses average 15-20 points a week).

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Say what you want about Big Ben; he pulls games out of the fire like that quite a bit, and that is valuable.

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