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Rams couldn't stop McCoy from getting a 150yds....
yet, Vinny wanted the Rams to punt the ball and stop the Bills with a 3&Out to get the ball back.
THAT would seem the harder strategy for Fisher to defend had he done that....especially without 3/4s of his starting DL. imo
I'm fine with the fake call. It's won us games in the past and ya can't win them all. btw - EEVERY team is well aware that we may fake a ST play...it's what we Rams do!! Nuthin to see there. imo
Being the worst offense in the NFL it seems the Rams were still within 1-3 plays(2 TOs) of winning the game...not tying it...winning it.
If it were me (and thank goodness its not) I would have gambled that Ryan would try to run time off the clock. I would have been all in on stopping the run. I think Ryan would have felt that his defense would have sealed the game and be ok with a 3 and out and not do anything risky. I think that's the safer bet than running a fake punt that was obviously a poor decision. I say that mostly because IMO there needs to be some "surprise element" to a fake punt. So even if it had worked somehow I still think it was a poor decision, especially within its context.
Lastly a successful fake punt probably just gives them a first down. An unsuccessful one all but guarantees a loss. To me its bewildering. Less so than the decision to go for 3... I mean it is so Jeff to go for the 3 there, that a fake field goal probably would have had
some surprise element in it...
IMO, the previous successful attempts were not necessarily expected.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2016 10:04AM by Atlantic Ram.
