Off The Grid

Virtually the entire Athletic World has it 1000% backwards.

1 ~ If I'm coaching or playing for a team that is getting slaughtered, say, 73-0, then I'm apoplectic with Rage...but at the slaughter itself, not the other team.

2 ~ Why in the name of GOD would I be mad at these other guys for showing me and my team the RESPECT...of giving me 60 full minutes??

3 ~ It's when they start running the ball up the middle to burn off the clock ~ when they stop COMPETING...that I get ANGRY.

4 ~ THAT...Ladies & Laddies...is DISRESPECT.

5 ~ THAT...is saying "We pity you."

6 ~ My team and I are giving YOU 60 Minutes, HOWEVER badly we may be executing TODAY.

7 ~ All I ask is that you show us the same Courtesy...The same RESPECT.

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Snake Eyes

Killing the clock has a higher tactical value at that point. To me it's nothing about pity but rather doing what will best help you win.

When the other team knows what's coming and still can't stop it, well that sucks for them, but to have this entitlement attitude that the other team owes it to you to make sure you don't look incompetent, that's disrespecting oneself.

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mayoclinic

"Coach, it's really disrespectful of them to keep intercepting my passes again and again."

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JoeSixPat

I think what he meant to say is

"We're the Dolphins - it's unfair to continue to play football against us.

"Not only should the Patriots not run the same play, but it would be more sportsman-like if they switched to baseball or basketball. Then we'd have a fighting chance to win"

It's possible I'm being a bit liberal in my interpretation of what he was saying, but I think that's pretty much the gist.

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FreeTedWilliams

This is too funny! Everyone in football knows that a team is gong to keep running a play until you stop it! When I coached football, I actually had a hand signal for my QB which meant "run the same play again", I think our record was 8 times in a row. Look offensive football is a simple game, if you have a play that you can make 4 yards on everytime, you would run it everytime and you would never lose! I can see why a d-lineman would be upset at this, because 9 times out of 10, you can run the same play because your lineman "owns" the d-lineman in front of him, which makes the play sucesfull. So all the credit should go to which Pats O-lineman was "owning" this guy....

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BennyBledsoe

I used to do the same thing to my buddy when we played Madden. I'd run the same offense and defense every time on him. He complained about it and I said, "Dude, if you know what's coming, call a play to stop it."

Even better... this was Madden 96 and I was the Pats and he was the Cowboys

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Off The Grid

Wrong.

You completely missed the point, though I cannot imagine how.

Your assertion only holds true in one narrow, specific circumtance: when there's less than two minutes left and you have a chance of preventing the team from ever touching the Ball again.

Short of that, going "Conservative" and basically deliberately giving up that whole "scoring points" thing, while giving your Opponent an undeserved shot at the Ball ~ all because of a false, foolish, and utterly backwards notion of "sportsmanshsip" which is in fact the opposite of what it's meant to be ~ is Idiocy...and insulting.

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Snake Eyes

Long drives that kill plenty of time are always useful, when the opposition is under time pressure to score they're more likely to become predictable and just pass. It also means their defense is on the field getting gassed, running is always good if you can do it successfully.

I dont get how running means that one is not trying to score. To me the issue is in trying to run when the other team knows you're going to run, which makes it a lot more likely that you fail, resulting in them getting the ball back. I don't see this done because of some twisted notion of sportsmanship but rather a foolish attempt to 'play it safe', buying into conventional wisdom about football strategy.

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