Should the Pats be running up the score on everybody in garbage time?

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yeah and if brady breaks his hand on a QB sneak going for it on 4th down in the 4th quarter with a monster lead against some crappy team, belichick will become legendary for making one of the greatest coaching blunders of all time.

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As Nochance said...risk v reward. The odds Brady is going to do that in a meaningless possession as opposed to any other possession is miniscule enough that they're going to play football for 3.5 quarters regardless of what the score is.

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this is exactly the point i argued at the beginning. chance of injury while running up the score > chance of injury on any random play. these aren't chivalrous gentlemen playing professional football, they are fierce competitors, some with incredibly ghetto roots. the odds just say sooner or later one of these guys is going to let his ghetto side take over and do something stupid.