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I wonder if the Patriots are the first team in NFL history to reach the conference championship game without beating a winning team all season.
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Am I the only one that thinks this was the dumbest decision ever?

 

A few reason why:

 

-It was 4th and 6, so there was no hope of drawing the other team offsides and getting the 1st down for free. The opponent also knows that.

-If you don't get the 1st down, you are giving them decent field position (better than being pinned) and have to hold them to 1-2 first downs to have another chance to score.

-If you do get the first down you are still likely somewhere around the 25. No means is that a likely TD, and if you don't advance on the next set of downs its still a 42 yard FD.

-If you kick and make it's tied, if you kick and miss its the Pats ball at the 43ish...not much worse than the situation where you go for it and don't get it.

 

Seems really odd decision there. I know that's a tough FG and I don't know what the wind conditions are or how good the Ravens kicker is so I could be wrong, but assuming no overly drastic wind conditions and an average kicker, I'd have kicked it there no brainer.

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Am I the only one that thinks this was the dumbest decision ever?

 

A few reason why:

 

-It was 4th and 6, so there was no hope of drawing the other team offsides and getting the 1st down for free. The opponent also knows that.

-If you don't get the 1st down, you are giving them decent field position (better than being pinned) and have to hold them to 1-2 first downs to have another chance to score.

-If you do get the first down you are still likely somewhere around the 25. No means is that a likely TD, and if you don't advance on the next set of downs its still a 42 yard FD.

-If you kick and make it's tied, if you kick and miss its the Pats ball at the 43ish...not much worse than the situation where you go for it and don't get it.

 

Seems really odd decision there. I know that's a tough FG and I don't know what the wind conditions are or how good the Ravens kicker is so I could be wrong, but assuming no overly drastic wind conditions and an average kicker, I'd have kicked it there no brainer.

 

Converting 4th and 6 has to be higher percentage than a 53 yard FG there, and you have to try to score since they're under 3 minutes left at that point.

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Am I the only one that thinks this was the dumbest decision ever?

 

A few reason why:

 

-It was 4th and 6, so there was no hope of drawing the other team offsides and getting the 1st down for free. The opponent also knows that.

-If you don't get the 1st down, you are giving them decent field position (better than being pinned) and have to hold them to 1-2 first downs to have another chance to score.

-If you do get the first down you are still likely somewhere around the 25. No means is that a likely TD, and if you don't advance on the next set of downs its still a 42 yard FD.

-If you kick and make it's tied, if you kick and miss its the Pats ball at the 43ish...not much worse than the situation where you go for it and don't get it.

 

Seems really odd decision there. I know that's a tough FG and I don't know what the wind conditions are or how good the Ravens kicker is so I could be wrong, but assuming no overly drastic wind conditions and an average kicker, I'd have kicked it there no brainer.

 

Converting 4th and 6 has to be higher percentage than a 53 yard FG there, and you have to try to score since they're under 3 minutes left at that point.

 

I'm not sure what you mean there.

 

omg it was blocked. I was not expecting that.

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