6 Turnovers= A poorly coached team

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Even that decision was the correct one, statistically speaking. They were backed up on their own four and consequently went 3 and out.

When you are that close to the goal line, you want to take advantage of the field position and try to punch it in. The chronic inability for this team to pick up a yard on the ground is a whole different story, and has been for the last two years. At some point, we are going to want to get that corrected.

How much you want to bet that if we had converted a first down there, someone would have started a thread saying "Horrible Call on 4th Down...We Should Have Gone with the Bootleg for the Touchdown. Gibbs Has No Guts"

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

How much you want to bet that if we had converted a first down there, someone would have started a thread saying "Horrible Call on 4th Down...We Should Have Gone with the Bootleg for the Touchdown. Gibbs Has No Guts"

Of course.

Unless we win. Then none of these nitpicky things matter to that crowd.

Don't let them know that the ultimate outcome of the game has nothing to do with the reasoning for any given decision.

The whole notion that if we lose, something must have gone wrong on Gibbs' end is really draining from the board. When we win, we get very reasonable, solid debates on select coaching decisions. When we lose, no one seems to remember the first thing about coaching football.