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Rams_81
How is that any different than the fumble that Akers had in the last few minutes? It was a physical mistake or a player focus mistake.
I see teams every week in the NFL play the burn the clock and stop trying to get first downs and those teams lose games. It literally happens almost every week.
Rarely do I see a team with a lead, lose games because they try to keep scoring and turn the ball over because of that approach.
Yet, coaches continue to blow late game leads playing prevent offense and prevent defense. We saw the Rams go into prevent offense against the 49ers and the Bucs. I hope McVay changes the approach and keeps trying on offense when he gets a lead.
We saw the Bills do a classic prevent defense to give up a game tying field goal and lose the game. It is already to dial it back a little bit but you can't stop playing until you can do a kneel down.
I agree in most case with what you are saying.....THAT was not the case in THAT spot in the game.
You risk a sack that could have knocked you out of FG range or worse an INT or in our instance a horrible snap that the QB isn't ready for.....You simply run three straight times in that situation and cover the ball with your life...heck take three kneel downs if you want and kick the 42 yard FG to all but ensure the win at that point in the game.
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