I know everyone has their attention completely on New England, but I want to look back at the end of the game yesterday.
Fox and Co. have been pretty roundly beat-up over the lack of aggression we had in closing out the game against Baltimore last year.
This year the team found themselves in nearly an identical situation. Actually it was frightening how familiar it felt. The ball in their hands with ~3:00 minutes left and the other team needing a touchdown to tie. Last year they ran the ball three times and punted.
This time they did something different. The team came out aggressive. It would have been easy to hand the ball off on 2nd and 17 or call a draw on 3rd and 17. They didn't. It would have been easy to sit on the ball on the ensuing possession, but they fired off a big time 3rd down pass to J. Thomas again.
Then they could have sat on the ball and punted with 20 seconds left. Nope, they came out firing with a risky wide receiver screen on first down. FIRST DOWN!
Talk about learning your lesson. Props to Fox, Gase, and Manning for refusing to fall back on bad habits.
Fox and Co. have been pretty roundly beat-up over the lack of aggression we had in closing out the game against Baltimore last year.
This year the team found themselves in nearly an identical situation. Actually it was frightening how familiar it felt. The ball in their hands with ~3:00 minutes left and the other team needing a touchdown to tie. Last year they ran the ball three times and punted.
This time they did something different. The team came out aggressive. It would have been easy to hand the ball off on 2nd and 17 or call a draw on 3rd and 17. They didn't. It would have been easy to sit on the ball on the ensuing possession, but they fired off a big time 3rd down pass to J. Thomas again.
Then they could have sat on the ball and punted with 20 seconds left. Nope, they came out firing with a risky wide receiver screen on first down. FIRST DOWN!
Talk about learning your lesson. Props to Fox, Gase, and Manning for refusing to fall back on bad habits.
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