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View Poll Results: Attacking kneeldowns in the victory formation. What's your opinion? | |||
Football is a 60-minute game. If it gives you a chance to win, you obviously do it. | 18 | 15.65% | |
You should do it to try to win, but the injury risk may outweigh the reward. | 6 | 5.22% | |
I'm neutral. I'm usually in the bathroom when the kneeldowns occur anyway. | 2 | 1.74% | |
I'll deal with it if someone does it, because the game's not over. But it's kind of stupid. | 20 | 17.39% | |
It's poor sportsmanship. Class up and acknowledge that you've lost. | 64 | 55.65% | |
Kneeldowns shouldn't happen anyway. Keep attacking because scoring is the eighth or ninth tiebreaker for the playoffs. | 5 | 4.35% | |
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12-09-2019, 01:19 PM | #2 |
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Bad sportsmanship. Can injure someone and never works. Wasn't even a thing until that loser Schiano brought it to the NFL, was it?
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12-09-2019, 01:21 PM | #3 |
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It's a dick move.
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12-09-2019, 01:21 PM | #4 |
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I wasn’t thrilled with it. I understand it but I wish they wouldn’t have done it. There is far higher probability of injury than a fumble. But I get it.
I do wonder what the narrative would have been if the roles were reversed. Would there be great whaling and gnashing of teeth at the slight chance that Brady would sustain an injury? I’m guessing at least one assface would roll that out there. |
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12-09-2019, 01:21 PM | #5 |
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RM - you're questioning why the Pats would try to injure their opponent?
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12-09-2019, 01:22 PM | #6 |
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Didn't someone run a fake out of a kneel-down position not too long ago? It was before halftime rather than just ending the game, but still.
In general, I'm fine with teams playing every down like it's a real play. |
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12-09-2019, 01:22 PM | #7 |
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It's bad sportsmanship, and nobody is surprised that the Patriots are bad sports.
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12-09-2019, 01:23 PM | #8 |
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Mahomes has had a lot of practice in the Victory formation.
Patriots took cheap shots the entire game. I hope they don't win another game the rest of the year. |
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12-09-2019, 01:23 PM | #9 |
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I tend to agree but occasionally weird crap happens on a snap and they were positioned at a great spot to take advantage if they got lucky. Just gotta deal with it.
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12-09-2019, 01:24 PM | #10 |
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Your 6th and final option is an interesting take.
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12-09-2019, 01:24 PM | #11 |
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Sorry guys but no.
It was smart. We were backed up to the end zone. It was a one score game. The chiefs have won on a botched kneel down (thanks, Rivers). There is nothing wrong with playing until zeroes on the clock. It’s bad sportsmanship when it’s mid field and you're down by 10. Pats did nothing wrong. |
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12-09-2019, 01:26 PM | #12 |
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If we're just evaluating it based on the probability of injury, consider other "long odds" situations. How about a team down by 28+ in the 4th quarter? That's like a 99% chance of a loss, so should they just take a knee the entire quarter and concede the game? That would avoid injuries for both teams.
I don't see how that's any different than playing through a kneel down. |
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12-09-2019, 01:32 PM | #14 |
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IMO, just do away with the kneel downs. If you are at a point where 3 kneels ends the game or whatever, just do like they've done with the extra point or the intentional walk in baseball.
Just allow coaches to say "we're kneeling to end the game, they don't have any time outs and we can salt it away" run the clock and end the game. There is a fumble on a snap what, every 8 years on a kneel? It's dumb. |
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12-09-2019, 01:38 PM | #15 |
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I don't like it but I understand 100% why someone (especially Belichick) would do it in that situation they were in.
A one-score game on our own 5 years line, any mistake and they could get the ball and score. I would have done it. But in a two possession game not important to the season outcome or seeding, No. stupid. |
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