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Originally Posted by vixticator
how about this argument...
there's no way belichick knew the %'s before he made the call to go for it... or what i mean is this specific situation is not trivial to go for it and the EV is small... so you should punt because there is no way to explain that this is the right move to the players who have almost certainly never seen a coach go for it in this spot ever before and conventional wisdom is obv punt... do you really want players thinking you cost the game?
If you are going down this road of argument, wouldn't you as the coach prefer that the media blame
you for the loss, knowing that you don't give a crap about what the media thinks? Rather than having the media blame your young defense for the loss when they give up a long drive at the end of the game, which had a decent probability of happening if the Pats punted?
Belichick effectively took all the blame for the loss onto himself, saving his players who suffer more from the scrutiny.