Since the score was 34-24 with time running out, kicking a FG was weird

CowboysFanSince88

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I mean I am sure we were all thinking 2 TD's to win the game 38-34. So why kick it on 4th and 5 when it's not that much time left and you are driving to score a TD. If it was 6 mins left then yes I would kick the FG but we had come from such a huge hole that it really made no sense to even go for it. Did Garrett want to play for OT????

I truly hate this coach
 

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I mean I am sure we were all thinking 2 TD's to win the game 38-34. So why kick it on 4th and 5 when it's not that much time left and you are driving to score a TD. If it was 6 mins left then yes I would kick the FG but we had come from such a huge hole that it really made no sense to even go for it. Did Garrett want to play for OT????

I truly hate this coach

You needed a fg anyways. You had to make it a 1 score game, however you could.
 

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I mean I am sure we were all thinking 2 TD's to win the game 38-34. So why kick it on 4th and 5 when it's not that much time left and you are driving to score a TD. If it was 6 mins left then yes I would kick the FG but we had come from such a huge hole that it really made no sense to even go for it. Did Garrett want to play for OT????

I truly hate this coach

No that was the right call. The time to go for it would have been in the 1st half down by 17 and trying to settle for a 54 yard field goal.
 

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I mean I am sure we were all thinking 2 TD's to win the game 38-34. So why kick it on 4th and 5 when it's not that much time left and you are driving to score a TD. If it was 6 mins left then yes I would kick the FG but we had come from such a huge hole that it really made no sense to even go for it. Did Garrett want to play for OT????

I truly hate this coach

I agree. But the fact remains the game hinged on an unlikely onside kick recovery no matter what we did. The real error was going down 31-3.
 

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I thought being close to the endzone it made sense to try and get the 5 yards and the td first. If we make that fg and get the onside kick. Going to be a lot harder to drive for a td with 1:30 left no timeouts

It was important to Garret's legacy that the game appear to be a one score loss which is far more respectable.

He just didn't bank on Maher missing a chippy.
 

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Madden is a simulation. Ppl that play madden probably have more sense of time management than you

Highly doubtful.
The key point I made here is "too much".
As in too much simulation makes one lose touch with reality.

Take another sip, Hen... lol
 

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You don't succeed with onside kicks in today's NFL anyway.

Which...I thought they should have kicked the FG before the 2 minute warning...and still kicked off. You had the 1 time out and the 2 minute warning to work with. Still...your counting on your kicker to make a FG...which we all know now...he can't kick...So I guess it doesn't matter now. But that's how I thought we should have played it out. Leave it to the NFL to kill the onside kick. :rolleyes:
 
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