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Originally Posted by petegz28
Yes, they did. But most teams aren't going to go for it on 4th down like Baltimore does. IMO, it's stupid to do it most of the time. You saw how it led to Houston losing yesterday by going for a fake deep in their territory up by 17 in the 2nd Q. Just dumb.
Let's look at some of those..
1st Q 4th & 1 from Your own 45....goes for it instead of punting
Ten scores on 1 play on a short field
3rd Q 4th & 1 from Ten 18...goes for it instead of taking the 3
Ten scored 6 plays later..literally a 10 point swing
4th Q 4th & 5 from Ten 16 ..goes for it and doesn't get it..could have had 3
4th Q 4th & 11 from Ten 25...has to go for it because you ****ed up too many other 4th downs
Now these are admittedly "What Ifs" but that's the fun of it, right?
What if they punt early and make Ten work the field instead of giving them a 45 yard field to bust on 1 PA pass? 7 points costed there
What if they kick the FG in the 3rd instead of going for it? 3 points off the board
What if in the 4th they kick a FG the first time? 3 points.
So just to sum it up a bit they took 6 points off the board and gave Ten a short field which led to another 7. There's 13 points right there. One one of those you don't get it and it gives momentum to Ten and they score a TD 6 plays later. 20 points total.
So you can say Harbaugh's 4th down decisions cost his team 20 points give or take one way or the other.
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I think they went a bit overboard on the analytics. If you're playing a potent offense, for sure, be aggressive, I get it.
Against the Titans, FG's aren't exactly terrible.