Jones has no balls and every week he shows us again that he has no balls. Hell, yea, you go for it. You make a yard, you have a huge chance of winning the game! You're trailing by 14 with 3.5 minutes left, and suddenly you can win the game by getting a yard? Even with 40 seconds left, no brainer for me. The only question would be, do you run the ball up the middle or go wide with Dobbs. Of course Jones made the safe call--he always does.
Jones has no balls and every week he shows us again that he has no balls. Hell, yea, you go for it. You make a yard, you have a huge chance of winning the game! You're trailing by 14 with 3.5 minutes left, and suddenly you can win the game by getting a yard? Even with 40 seconds left, no brainer for me. The only question would be, do you run the ball up the middle or go wide with Dobbs. Of course Jones made the safe call--he always does.
Didn't you say you didn't watch this game?
1st of all proud of our boys and coaches for not giving up.... now when we scored and they jumped offsides on the extra point with 40 seconds left... I felt we should have gone for 2pt conversion then. We killed them up the middle all game long and John Kelly could have punched it in I believe. It's in hindsight now...but I was screaming it at the TV when it happened. What do you guys think? I will hang up and listen.haha
1st of all proud of our boys and coaches for not giving up.... now when we scored and they jumped offsides on the extra point with 40 seconds left... I felt we should have gone for 2pt conversion then. We killed them up the middle all game long and John Kelly could have punched it in I believe. It's in hindsight now...but I was screaming it at the TV when it happened. What do you guys think? I will hang up and listen.haha
Going for two would have been a mistake. If we already had a loss or two on the season maybe we roll the dice. Being undefeated at the time and calling a high risk play instead of taking an almost guaranteed tie and overtime would have been bad coaching.
1st of all proud of our boys and coaches for not giving up.... now when we scored and they jumped offsides on the extra point with 40 seconds left... I felt we should have gone for 2pt conversion then. We killed them up the middle all game long and John Kelly could have punched it in I believe. It's in hindsight now...but I was screaming it at the TV when it happened. What do you guys think? I will hang up and listen.haha
One could argue that the risk was greater going into overtime as opposed to gaining 1 yard when your offense is rolling
I just don't get that argument. 2pt conversions are only converted about 42% of the time historically. If you asked 100 division 1 coaches to make that call in that position, 97 would take the pat. 2 of the other 3 that tried for two would not have converted the attempt based on the percentages.
I would think taking an offense that was rolling like we were in to overtime would be a good thing. With that said, I can see where the defense being beat up like it was would make someone think about trying it there. Had he went for two and said he did it due to our defensive injuries, I could have lived with it even if it didn't work.
I just don't get that argument. 2pt conversions are only converted about 42% of the time historically. If you asked 100 division 1 coaches to make that call in that position, 97 would take the pat. 2 of the other 3 that tried for two would not have converted the attempt based on the percentages.
I would think taking an offense that was rolling like we were in to overtime would be a good thing. With that said, I can see where the defense being beat up like it was would make someone think about trying it there. Had he went for two and said he did it due to our defensive injuries, I could have lived with it even if it didn't work.
Here's the argument:
You're 42% doesn't apply because we had half the distance due to the penalty.
Our defenders were dropping like flies and we had no depth left due to injuries. So you have to consider going for the win.
With that said, I wouldn't have faulted him either way