Originally Posted by Bump:
not really, I can't think of any teams that are pulling their starters in that situtation
You don't have to pull your starters if you just don't use your timeouts when the Ravens have the ball.
And yeah most teams keep playing for the win. But the Bucs had roughly a .01%, or 1 in 10,000 chance of winning. Their odds of someone having a catastrophic injury are several orders of magnitude greater than that.
Coaches should be smarter about doing this shit in week 7. [Reply]
Originally Posted by suzzer99:
You don't have to pull your starters if you just don't use your timeouts when the Ravens have the ball.
And yeah most teams keep playing for the win. But the Bucs had roughly a .01%, or 1 in 10,000 chance of winning. Their odds of someone having a catastrophic injury are several orders of magnitude greater than that.
Coaches should be smarter about doing this shit in week 7.
and if they benched the starters and conceded fans would have been saying "you always play to win, a 0.01% chance is still a chance!
I'm not trying to say it isn't smart to pull the starters, it just rarely happens in the NFL [Reply]
Originally Posted by suzzer99:
You don't have to pull your starters if you just don't use your timeouts when the Ravens have the ball.
And yeah most teams keep playing for the win. But the Bucs had roughly a .01%, or 1 in 10,000 chance of winning. Their odds of someone having a catastrophic injury are several orders of magnitude greater than that.
Coaches should be smarter about doing this shit in week 7.
49ers had a worse chance on Sunday in the last two minutes than the Bucs and did the same thing.
