What's your defnition of 'conservative playcalling'?

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

Your post highlighted what I've been saying all along.. Focus on drives 3, 4, 5. What happened right before that? We went up 2 TD.. For some reason, that is the trigger to get away from being aggressive. You said it yourself, that's when we got conservative..

I've never claimed our entire offense is conservative, it just drives me nuts to see us stop attacking once we have a 2 TD lead.. We can't keep hanging the defense out to dry like that.. We've been the better team on the field each week so far, but that's not always going to be the case How about shotgun on downs other than on 3rd and long? How about not running the ball on 1st down on 4 of 5 2nd half possessions?? Maybe I should have termed the thread passivity rather than conservatism but it's kinda the same thing..

Do the coaches change their game-plans if we are up by 10 points? Yes, just as coaches change their game-plans if they are down by 10 points. Do the coaches get sometimes too conservative/passive? In my opinion, yes. But, it's not as though the coaches are NEVER calling aggressive plays in the second half of games. The coaches called deep bombs in the second halves of the Philly, NYG, and GB games that didn't connect. Had JC connected with Moss on those deep-plays, I doubt people would be saying how conservative our coaches get when playing with a lead.