Bills vs. Patriots breakdown/analysis

[pencilneckgeek]

I love Patspsycho and his analysis but I agree with emoney on this one. I am sure that BJGE avoided the "out of bounds" play - and I too thought that was really smart - but I do not think BJGE was calculating yards and time as he ran. Falling short of the goal-line is one thing - calculating yards and time as you run past the 35 yard line is another - In my humble opinion.

I'm in this camp, too, psycho. I'm willing to grant him football smarts, but it's a stretch to assume he broke out his sliderule to speculate on numbers of plays left, etc. You have to figure that he (like Jones Drew) showed his smarts by remembering the details that he was taught in Situational Football 201 and maybe give him extra credit for being conservative enough to drop to the ground when there were defenders around him, rather than risk getting knocked out of bounds from behind. Any more than that goes from pure speculation to wild speculation.