So Mike McCarthy deserves little of the blame for the Packers' collapse last year but this one is all on Belichick?

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McCarthy obsession is bizarre.

WTF are you talking about?

Belichik ended up with enough chances to kick THREE field goals in the last six minutes and win.

If he had confidence in Brady, he would have kicked the first one and gone for the win later. Say what you want, but the Pats lost because Bill didn't do just that.

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If every coach could use hindsight, of course they would make better decisions. Unless it's basically a coin flip, you go with what the odds/math tells you. Kicking the FG was the wrong decision on 4th and short. Unless you just want to deny statistics and probabilities, that is your answer.

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Trestman wouldn't change things.

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Going on 4th and 1 was the wrong decision.

Simply not true. Get out of the stone age.

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Sure.

Just ignore what actually happened after he made the wrong decision.

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You're looking at this backwards, which is at least logically consistent for you. You don't judge a decision by the end result. A team could theoretically punt on every 3rd down and still win a game. Winning the game wouldn't mean that was suddenly a good decision. You don't have the benefit of hindsight as a coach. The best you can do is know the odds and probabilities of converting and the expected point value of each play, and make the best decision from there. Belichick did that yesterday. You lack critical thinking on this, but you're far from the only one.

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In the playoffs teams were 13 for 29 or 44% on 4th down conversion so I think he was going against the odds

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The Broncos offense was shut down by the Patriots defense. The Broncos had 1 drive over 50 yards.

Take the points. Kick the touchback (it's Denver) and force a punt leading to great field position.

The decision was ridiculously obvious.

He should have judged the Broncos inability to move the ball in the second half except for one 30 yd run.

Kick the field goal and then trust your defense and HOF QB. He didn't do that, and has no one but himself to blame for it.

He didn't need the benefit of hindsight to make that decision.

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Yes, it was.

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So much for the math I guess.

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No, there are a ton of variables missing from that. Here, start with this:

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/83790 ... nts-metric

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I'm truly shocked that Walt's single statistic with an extremely small sample size and no consideration for any other variables doesn't give us the whole picture.

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I guess this type of math is too advanced for guys like Seacrest, Archie, and Walt. Guys like Frank, you, and I get it though.

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Kick a field goal and you still need a touchdown, which you still hadn't scored yet against Dinver.

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They scored a touchdown in the 1st quarter

So then obviously they had a great chance of scoring a TD on any of the 4th down drives then.

Although Belichek obviously lost the game by campaigning for xps to be moved back in the offseason

Different variables that Belichick may have thought of, but decided against.

The reality is, had he used our variables, he would be preparing for another Super Bowl today.

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Score a touchdown and you still need a field goal.

Take the points.

1st you didn't know the Pats did scored in the 1st quarter.Then you spell Denver and Belichick wrong...tell us more professor

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I don't have strong feelings on what he should have done, but making this statement with absolute certainty is incorrect. We have no idea what would have transpired if New England would have kicked the field goal. The Broncos may have ended up winning by three scores. There's no way to tell what "would have" happened.

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