OT: Lions vs Bucs

[Empirical Cane]

Can someone please explain something to me? After Mayfield hit Mike Evans to make the score 23-31, why did Bowles go for 2? What is the point of going for 2 in that situation? Makes no rational sense.

Well you see the weather favored the Lions....

 

[Mi.Cane]

just like the author, I thought the timeout graphic was wrong.

WHY Did Todd Bowles Refuse To Call A Timeout That Could Have Given The Bucs The Ball Back Down One Score With 30 Seconds Left?

This horrific display of coaching didn't get nearly enough attention yesterday. The ending of the Lions vs Bucs game featured one of the strangest incidents of clock management I've ever seen on a foo...

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[Southern Oz]

Good discussion. The whole concept of analytics is fascinating to me but there is also an element present in today's game that I find maddening and very counterintuitive and that is the blind loyalty to whatever the analytic sheet says at the expense of a head coach using his own personal judgement based on experience and the way the game is going at the moment. Analytics can't provide that.

If anything Todd Bowles has been slow on the up take of aggressive moves like that.
There are some that do have blond loyalty to it and it is the moneyball-isation of football.
I like playing around with some of this. Also Brett Kollman? Think that’s his name does a good video on it on YouTube.

 

[coffeecane]

Inday and some other dude round here...

That's gonna leave a mark.