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Old 11-30-2007, 05:14 AM
CieloAzor CieloAzor is offline
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Default Re: Have I Discovered Another Mathematical Football Coaching Error?

2 and a half minutes is a lot of time and teams can do awfully well when using all 4 downs

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I thought the point he was driving at was that a team trailing by 1 should be content to stop short of the goal line and set up a chip shot FG as time expires, rather than scoring a TD and leaving the other team time to march the other way.

Regarding the Redskins/Eagles game, the Redskins did admit after the game that they had let Westbrook score, and Westbrook responded that if he'd known they were letting him score, he would have kneeled at the 1. All players should be instructed NOT to score unnecessary TDs in spots such as that.
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