8. Bill Belichick Goes for It
There aren’t too many decisions on the football field that New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick can be questioned about. However, the choice to go for it on 4th-and-two from his own 28-yard line during a game against the Indianapolis Colts in 2009 is certainly one of them. With a six-point lead and close to two minutes left, Belichick had his offense remain on the field, with quarterback Tom Brady completing a pass that was inches short of the first-down marker, giving the ball back to the Colts and Peyton Manning, who quickly marched the team down for the game-winning score.
Wait, this can't be true. I thought Peyton always choked? How dare he lead the biggest comeback in AFC Championship history.
Agree. The only dumb thing was throwing it in the middle of the field. Too many things can go wrong. But throwing itself was a good call in that situation with the D NE had in. What would have been #1, or pretty damn high, IF Seattle had scored a TD was BB not calling a Time Out in that situation. But as Chop said, everything is results oriented second guessing. As a NE bettor at that time I was screaming for BB to call a TO and have enough time left to at least try and kick a tying FG if need be.
BB not calling a time out was way worse IMO. I thought Pete Carol thought they would call the time out, and thats why he did that play to not give up info on what they were going to run.
And the Chris Webber thing has been blown way out of proportion...LMAO
Championship game......Down 2 with the ball 19 seconds remaining and he calls a timeout with none.....And it`s blown way out of proportion
1-Chris Webber
2-Grady Little.....Little never got another job in the majors.
2-Grady Little.....Little never got another job in the majors.
And the Chris Webber thing has been blown way out of proportion...LMAO
Championship game......Down 2 with the ball 19 seconds remaining and he calls a timeout with none.....And it`s blown way out of proportion
Probably would have lost the game anyway.
Dumb things like that happen all the time in sports.
Dont know why people decide to talk about that event for over 20 years .
Probably would have lost the game anyway....LOL....You don`t know that.
Chop it was a championship game.....One of the biggest bone head plays in the history of sports......I`m out!
Bonehead things happen all the time.
But not all of them are brought up over and over again for the next 20 years.
I did not say it wasn't boneheaded .
I said it was overblown.
No I don't know if they would have lost the game anyway.
But the odds of them winning that game even without the timeout was probably less then 25%.
Extrodinary claims (biggest boneheaded play in sports history) require Extrodinary evidence.
In order for the most boneheaded play in sports history to be the truly the most boneheaded play in sports history you would have to almost certainly conclude that that play 100% cost his or her team the win.
In this case they still probably had less then a 40% chance of winning even if he did not call the time out.
So how can that play be the biggest boneheaded play of all time there was less then a 50% chance that the play affected the outcome of the game?
Boneheaded yes
Overblown yes
No shit, and Seattle ran that play a lot during the season, hence Butler was prepared and jumped it. Decision wasn't made in a vacuum, The very successful head coach of Seattle said " we believed we had a passing advantage against their goal line defense". Malcum Butler made a sensational play, game over.
Plus Lynch was something like 1 out of 5 in those situations this year, now English majors think it was a guaranteed score
The idiocy is somewhat surreal in my book
The decision does not belong on this list
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When i say English majors I'm referring to the media who thinks their degree has taught them how to manage every sport, run every business, grow the economy , raise every child, fight wars and essentially live everyone's lives for them
Stated differently, the fucking turds of this world
When i say English majors I'm referring to the media who thinks their degree has taught them how to manage every sport, run every business, grow the economy , raise every child, fight wars and essentially live everyone's lives for them
Stated differently, the fucking turds of this world
