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Score the td go ahead 14 and put your defense on the field to close it out... we were playing the Lions
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And i dont know that I have ever seen that before... winning teams do that? I don’t know in alll my years of football I have seen that before in similar circumstances
McVay ain’t that damn smart man
Just because you've never seen it, doesn't mean it hasn't happened. I know I've seen it from multiple teams before but sadly I can't give specific examples.
Second, McVay's pretty danged smart but I don't know that anyone is saying he told Gurley to do it. I think these two games where he's done it, he's done it on his own.
Third, obviously winning teams do DO it. Rams are 11-1 and have done it twice this year. With a leaky defense that can't stop the pass, I don't see the problem with running off clock when the opportunity presents itself. When it doesn't work and the Rams lose, maybe then there will be reason to question or criticize it but it reads like a very smart, unselfish, winning move to me.
I think you're being disingenuous if you think it's as simple as putting our defense on the field to close out any offense. A 14 point lead would have likely been enough but with 2:32 a timeout and two minute warning, it was still questionable. The way Gurley did it, the Rams had a 14 point lead and the lions only had 1:51 and no stoppages. 41 seconds may not seem like a lot but that's pretty much a whole drive's worth of time at the end of a game.
Nope!
Gurley should have took the sure TD there and gone up by 14
He probably didn't realize how much time was left and how many time outs the Lions had.
You take the 14 point lead there every time !!!
So what if they fumble the snap on first and goal or get stuffed and miss the FG ???
You take the sure points there....you don't just assume you're going to score anyway and take a knee there just to grind off 30 more seconds of clock. Too much could have gone wrong there...that's why McVay had Gurley punch it in the next play.
Why do you presume that when they've done it twice and it's worked both times? Why is it you can't assume that you'll score from the 2 but you can assume that you will stop them from scoring? Has this defense showed a tendency to stop offenses from scoring? Have they been good in the 2 minute drills?
You have to assume in either situation but I have a lot more faith in the offense handing the ball to Gurley and/or kicking a FG in the red zone than I do of the defense closing out a game.
I mean, what I assume is that McVay put some serious thought into doing it for the second time and he's a lot smarter than me. I'll happily defer to his judgment on this one.