Patriots play to win, Steelers play not to get "blown out"

rukus4ever · Oct 25, 2016

Steel_Elvis said: ↑

I'm not failing to realize anything. I realize that the game plan was kept manageable for the backup QB (call it conservative if you will), and that the manageable game plan allowed us to be in striking distance late in the 4th quarter. We didn't execute down the stretch and lost. It happens sometimes. Especially with a backup QB. However, what also happens often with backup QBs is that they make big mistakes when pressed, and those big mistakes often compound and turn into blowouts.

Now here's the point - you say that we played to not get blown out. That's partly right IMO. However, I think you're characterization of why they did that is wrong. We were playing to make sure that we had a chance to win in the 4th quarter by minimizing the fatal explosion plays - on both sides of the ball - and that was done so that we'd have a chance to WIN, not to make the score look respectable. We had a chance to win late, and that's what the game plan was designed to do.

I think what you fail to realize is that things could have been much worse had we gone in and had Landry slinging it into coverage like Brett Favre. We were down our QB, #2 and #3 WRs, RT and best defensive player. We were outgunned for a track meet, so we played to shorten the game and have a chance late. We didn't lose because of a conservative game plan. We lost because even the manageable game plan wasn't perfectly executed on offense. How do you think a wide open game plan would have been executed?
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Nice breakdown.

Steel_Elvis · Oct 25, 2016

rukus4ever said: ↑

Nice breakdown.
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Thanks.

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Patriots play to win, Steelers play not to get "blown out"

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