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SO why didn't we kick the field goal?

Zod

By Zod,
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Cpanthers5851 Newbie

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yeah i thought they should have kicked the field goal and tried for the stop.

either way you were going to have to go for a TD. atleast if you kicked the field goal, going for a td if you get the ball back means youre going for the win and not the tie.

but i guess you have to look at is at you may not get the ball back so you have to go for it now.

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matrix Newbie

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Seriously. Timeouts left. Almost 3:00 the clock. Down 8. 4th and 10?

Easy decision, kick the field goal.

f**king stupid coaching.

I actually agree with this call. Fox didn't trust his defense and so did I. But unfortunately, Jake is not Tom or Peyton or Philip.

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ladypanther Grand Master

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This should have been considered....if we had scored "only" 3...the Falcons O would have been easier to stop...they would have more conservative than of we had tied the game. And...considering 4th & 10...what are the odds we could get a 1st down, score and also get the 2 point conversion. The very sensible strategy would have been to go for the easy 3. Zod is right. With 3 min left...would have had a better chance to stop the Falcons offense and get another chance to score.

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Wouldn't have made a difference, we still would've had to hold them on D, which would bring us down to 0:50 to make a 70 yard drive to the endzone like it did. Would've been the exact same situation except the touchdown we failed to get anyway would've allowed us to win rather than tie. And the turnover gave their offense worse field position than if we kicked off to them. Going for it was the right call, poor execution is to blame.

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Darth Biscuit Experienced

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You're all wrong. Clearly the Panthers should have punted.

There's always a third option, huh Meat?

I actually agreed with the call. Defense didn't stop them all day, 3 would have done us no good.

I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere too, but special teams helped us lose last week and lost the game almost outright this week. The D didn't play that well, but the difference today was the TD at the end of the first half...

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Seriously can't understand how on our last drive we consistently got the play clock down to under 5 before snapping. That was the most mind-boggling part of the game for me. Fox/Jake, ever heard of a hurry up offense? It's a good idea when you're down 8 with under 6 minutes left. At least pretend like you're not trying to run out the clock next time.

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Cpt slay a ho Mentor

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field goal easy call......horrible assement by fox or whoever.....4th and 10 the ball basically hast to be thrown in the endzone area for a first.You don't convert you still have to rely on your d fence you do convert you have to rely on a 2pt onversion and if that fails back to defence.....field goal would have least made a td the game winning one maybe put a little sense of urgecy in our o to produce a game winning drive.plus although our pass d sucked our run d was quite good today.

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George Shinnsplints Newbie

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Those of you that are claiming that the FG (or to go for it) was an easy call are exposing yourself as irrational armchair quarterbacks. It was clearly a close decision, as evidenced by the split in opinion on this board. Everyone likes to believe that they know football inside out and are masters of pigskin strategery, but please spare us the "Here's what we should of done, I am disregarding all the counterarguments other posters have mentioned, Fox is an idiot" sentiment.

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