Why did Philly not kick a field goal in 4th quarter?

[Risen Star]

Not using his timeouts at end of game was utterly stupid. You have the Cowboys pinned in their end, and you have the best special teams in the NFL and you don't force a punt. Pop warner coaching with Pederson.

Yep that too. They were talking about it all day on Philly sports radio. Pederson coached scared and it cost them the game.

 

[NickZepp]

Eagles are just an ultra conservative team and probably know they aren't really much better than average. 1-3 in the last 4 games now. And they play @ Giants, Falcons, @ Seahawks, Packers, @ Bengals next 5 games.

 

[romothesavior]

I would like to see the percentages, because I highly doubt the difference between giving up the ball at the 10/20 vs. the 40 justifies not trying a 53-yard FG indoors to essentially Ice the game.

I think it was absolutely the wrong decision to punt.

To elaborate, making that kick was greater than a 50% probability, maybe even greater than 60%, per the FG statistics.

Punting was idiotic.

 

[Maxmadden]

Second guessing a coaching decision after the fact, has always been a popular sport. Many times coaches are trying to send a message to their team more so than anything.

Pederson was trying to show his faith in his defense which would serve him down the road.

Garretts message to the team when he went for it on 4th and 1. " I'm tired of this BS let's go out and win this game once and for all, because we are the better team"

The coach shows faith in the team which in return, the the team builds faith in the coach. It is a big part of coaching. Second guessing is not.

 

[Ultra Warrior]

Who cares? We won the game. They can second guess their own screw ups.

 

[NickZepp]

Second guessing a coaching decision after the fact, has always been a popular sport. Many times coaches are trying to send a message to their team more so than anything.

Pederson was trying to show his faith in his defense which would serve him down the road.

Garretts message to the team when he went for it on 4th and 1. " I'm tired of this BS let's go out and win this game once and for all, because we are the better team"

The coach shows faith in the team which in return, the the team builds faith in the coach. It is a big part of coaching. Second guessing is not.

Garrett knows his team is probably capable of winning it all now. Or at least winning the NFC. Pederson maybe hopes Philly can get in the playoffs.

 

[Proximo]

Yep that too. They were talking about it all day on Philly sports radio. Pederson coached scared and it cost them the game.

Any amusing tidbits on Philly sports radio today? I imagine they were pretty butt-hurt, overall.

 

[TheHerd]

And remember, Dak had played mostly like garbage until then. Who knew he was gonna all go Romo on them?

I still prefer going for it alway and would have tried the FG, but I'm just another jabroni watching from the couch who loses nothing if all my risks backfire.

 

[CyberB0b]

Can't fault him for thinking he would have to force a struggling rookie QB to drive 90 yards to tie it up.

 

[Risen Star]

Any amusing tidbits on Philly sports radio today? I imagine they were pretty butt-hurt, overall.

The general consensus is that they gave the game to the Cowboys. One guy even gave the "The Cowboys were who we thought they were! And we let em off the hook!"

 

[Temo]

You coach not to lose, you will usually end up losing. Ask Garrett about this. He's did it many times. Main one I remember was in 2012 against the Ravens. Had timeouts and 45 sec left and we only ran one play before trying an extremely long FG that we missed.

If he misses, oh well. You are still up 7. The worst case you are now tied, have the ball and just need a FG to win. If there was very little time left, then I agree. But not at that point.

Garrett coached to win last night. Especially going for it on 4th and 1. Pederson most likely kicks a FG there.

It was 26 seconds left, and 1 timeout. We ran one play (Dez for 1 yard) then kicked a 51 yarder that Bailey missed.

 

[Awakened]

Can't fault him for thinking he would have to force a struggling rookie QB to drive 90 yards to tie it up.

Well, actually I am faulting him. He was playing to not lose. He had the chance to WIN the game and he chose not to.

 

[Nightman]

Running a play that lost 5 yards was a bad plan on 3rd down before the punt

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Yea, really puzzling. Pederson was a horrid coach last night

You mean worse than he was as a {backup}QB?

 

[StarOfGlory]

The bigger question is why didn't he just run Sproles up the middle instead of calling a swing pass? At worse, Sproles gets back to the LOS and the field goal is a 47-yarder. Peterson is getting roasted up here on talk radio.

For the record, the large majority of callers think Dak is pretty good, even if he didn't look great last night.

 

[StarOfGlory]

The scary thing is that two fumbles and a bad play call by their head coach might very well be the difference between 4-3 and 6-1 (or even 7-0) for that team. They are their own worse enemy in a sense.

 

[8FOR!3]

I did text my buddy who's an Eagles fan on like 2nd or 3rd down to go ahead and kick the field goal and put me out of of my misery. Maybe they should have heeded my advice? 3rd down pinned them back to a 53 yard FG that I still assumed they were going to kick and make and they punted it away instead. Very odd.

 

[panchucko]

Dude had hit TWO 55 yards, but they didn't trust him to hit a 53 harder and put the game away?? Garrett coached to win - their coach coached not to lose!

Because I used an old Jedi trick on Peterson, you will never t kick a field goal, you will punt

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

He turned into Jason Garrett and Garrett turned into an NFL coach. It was a great thing to witness.

 

[Reality]

No question. It was a gift. The Cowboys were lucky to win that game.

It's more enjoyable on the winning side of that happening