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What is your opinion of the steelers tactic of repeatedly going for 2 point conversions against the cowboys last night? Do you think it was a vaild tactic that could be repeated? A case of not trusting their kicker with the new PAT regs? Or was it just, as the commentators seemed to think, a case of chasing their losses after missing the first one?
Many thanks, a frustrated Giants fan
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The correct mathematical decision is to go for two every time IF we believe that the current % of times that people are missing PATs is going to continue, obviously since the length of PATs has got longer. I don't think the coaches have really thought about it enough and they are just always too conservative in terms of going for two, gambling on first down, going for trick plays etc and they always have been long before the PAT rule change.
If your kicker is having a bad run or there is any wind about it's a total no-brainer. Given that the head-coach has so much to think about and that there are a lot of calculations to do and experience needed to know about when to take time-outs, percentage chance of making a field goal from every possible distance etc it amazes me that they don't employ a maths geek and just trust him 100% of the time to be correct in ev terms...obv they just wouldn't trust them and would go for the conservative route wherever they had a game on the line. Some decisions really make you realise these people are basically morons which is amazing when you think about the money involved.
I did note that Tomlin went back to kicking PATs last night.