Saints try fake FG with 2 mins left up 3???

think the kicker figures in here he couldn't hit anything in warm ups, he misses an extra point badly, to his defense he did hit a fg, but coaches confidence in him was slim

Shocked everyone didn't love this call, seriously, how can you argue with it. Solve by inspection good. If I had Atl on the ML, I would have been cursing the second the fake materialized. The very worst time to kick a fg is when up 3. Going up to 6, we have often joked, seems to almost reduce your chance of winning. Up 3, the other team seems to get complacent, settle for a long 3 attempt, and a lot of things have to go wrong to lose. Up 6, they know what they want ( a td) and go for your throat. Ok, it IS better to be up by 6 than 3, but my point is that your chance of winning just doesn't go up all that dramatically. I would imagine that fake would work at least 1/2 the time, and it wins the game. NE/Indy all over again. Brilliant Call. The Goats disagree IMO.

[QUOTE=Fezzik;12214]Solve by inspection good. If I had Atl on the ML, I would have been cursing the second the fake materialized. The very worst time to kick a fg is when up 3. Going up to 6, we have often joked, seems to almost reduce your chance of winning. Up 3, the other team seems to get complacent, settle for a long 3 attempt, and a lot of things have to go wrong to lose. Up 6, they know what they want ( a td) and go for your throat. Ok, it IS better to be up by 6 than 3, but my point is that your chance of winning just doesn't go up all that dramatically. I would imagine that fake would work at least 1/2 the time, and it wins the game. NE/Indy all over again. Brilliant Call. The Goats disagree IMO.[/QUOTE] I was going to mention the similarities to poker. By going for it here, you increase the chance that your opponent (the coach on the other sideline) will make a big mistake. Down 6 he makes no mistake cuz it's obvious he needs a TD. Down 3 they often play for the tie, as you mention, even when that's a horrible decision as a double digit dog.

[QUOTE=mose;12213]think the kicker figures in here he couldn't hit anything in warm ups, he misses an extra point badly, to his defense he did hit a fg, but coaches confidence in him was slim[/QUOTE] Would have rather not known about the fake FG *and* this missed PAT.

Saw the play last night. The execution made it look like a bad decision. The WR cannot depend on YAC to make the first down. He needs to run a deeper pattern. He may not have known where the first down marker was, based on where he turned. And Brunell just looked rusty out there. I think this was a situational call, as opposed to one they run in practice with any regularity. Would hope in the press conference they ask them how often they practice this play, although they'd lie and say they practice it all the time anyway. (By contrast, NE's 4th down attempt vs Indy is a play they practice all the time.) It looked like they were trying a recipe for the first time and used margarine instead of butter.