(01-22-2018, 12:15 PM)Predator Wrote:

(01-22-2018, 07:51 AM)FBT Wrote: Suppose they don’t take a knee there and instead they go aggressively and have something like a pick six?  I am sure you would have started a thread saying they should have taken a knee and not risked giving New England another chance to score. 

I don’t have a problem with that call. There are plenty of other play calls to hate in that game, especially in the fourth quarter.  This wasn’t one of them.

Maybe you would start a thread complaining about that. I definitely wouldn't complain about following normal football protocol with nearly a minute left to work with. It's not like there was 20 seconds left with no time outs.

Heck, if they run a couple of plays and don't get any movement going, they still have the opportunity to down the ball and take it to the half. They didn't even try running something conservative to see if they could get some traction going for a drive.

With 55 seconds and two timeouts the entire playbook is still open to the offense. They aren't forced into an overly aggressive situation because they have plenty of time to move the ball down the field to get into a scoring opportunity.

No team the entire season has taken a knee with that much time left in the half. I guess Marrone really outsmarted the rest of the league with this call.