Quote:Thats exactly why he's asking you to give him an example. Its their tact. 

 

We've both seen similar situations over the years and coaches will continue to go for more yards until either they reach a reasonable distance (inside 50 yards) or there is only time enough for the field goal attempt. 

 

I can honestly say that I really cannot remember an instance of a recent NFL head coach handling the situation (bungling it) as bad as Bradley did there. 

 

 

Quote:Dude, I'm just telling you from my years and years watching football that what I saw Sunday was atypical to how that situation has been handled in the NFL.  By saying my argument is invalid because I don't care to scour through a slew of games to try to find something that supports my argument is ludicrous.  Have you found one that supports yours?  I think that's a ridiculous way to determine who is "right".  Anyways, if you can say that any coach would have done what Bradley did, you can have that opinion.  But if you've watched enough football, you'd know that you were wrong.

 

You can't call my argument invalid because I can't find a similar situation if you can't provide me one that supports you...just sayin.

 

WWTCD

 

Oh wait. Coughlin was in nearly the exact situation. And what did he do?

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<div>Coughlin decided to attempt a 54-yard field goal on third down with 15 seconds left. He had no timeouts left, but a sideline route could have gotten Lawrence Tynes closer. A completion in bounds wouldn't precludethe Giants from running on the field-goal team. But Coughlin played it safe.
 
Tynes missed, the Philadelphia crowd started going crazy — oh, but wait. In 2009, Mike Shanahan called a timeout just before Sebastian Janikowski made a field goal. Janikowski missed the follow-up attempt, spawning a craze of coaches calling a timeout a moment before a kicker tries a field goal, despite no evidence it works (last week Miami coach Joe Philbin nullified a blocked field goal in overtime by his team, a particularly embarrassing example of the strategy). Reid had done the same to try and ice Tynes. The miss didn't count. Tynes got to try again.
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Coughlin's quote the following day:

 

"What happens if you get a sack there? What happens if you try to fit one in tight, and it gets, whether you catch it or not, you get tackled in bounds? Game's over. Last night I chose to do that, knowing full well that the clock was not in our favor, we had no timeouts. I fully expected the type of coverage that would take the short throw to the sideline away from us. I'm not going to know whether or not that was the case because we didn't try it."

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