[CBFF] Bad Decision To Go For the FG???

[Steve Behrens]

On 11/28/06, Nat Mara <azbearfan34 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I have no problem with that call. It was 4th & 6, and our offense kept
> bogging down inside the 20.  Had it been 4th & 2 or less ,I might have
> gone
> for it.  Coming away with no points would have been a killer after a drive
> like that .. At that point in the game.


Why?  We still had to go thru the red zone 'that we kept getting bogged down
in' after kicking the FG.  Avoiding it with a FG doesn't make that fact go
away.

-Behr




Nat
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:30 PM
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> Subject: [CBFF] Bad Decision To Go For the FG???
>
> I'm still a little surprised there hasn't been more talk about the
> decision
> to kick the FG with 5 minutes and some odd seconds remaining instead of
> trying for the first down on, what?  4th and 4 or 5?  This decision, more
> than any other, worries me about our ability to make the right call in
> crucial situations (and there have been others).  This probably flies
> under
> the radar because our defense forced and unlikely T.O. (instead of the
> opponents going 3 and out the coaches were expecting).  But we got the
> ball
> back and Rex throws the stupid pick, which redirects attention and
> discussion towards that.
>
> But come on...  you have to go for the First down and continue to drive
> for
> the tying TD.  If you're going to depend on your defense to win the game,
> you do it in possible O.T., or at the very worst, you don't score, you run
> out of downs, and you have the opponents backed up where the defense can
> maybe tee off a little. It was pretty obvious that Brady was hot and he
> was
> going to move the ball if he got it back... it was to me.
>
> Kicking the FG and being down by 4 points still means the Bears offense,
> which was struggling in the second half (to put it mildly) had to drive
> the
> length of the field for a touchdown anyway.
>
> You need a TD, one way or another... you're at their doorstep... you show
> some balls and go for it.  Very disappointing call and the worst one of
> the
> game.
>
> -Behr
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