Year of The Hawk
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I have been giving this whole 4th quarter philosophy a great deal of thought. The objective is to win the game. Stats be damned. If you use that metric then Pete is damn good in this regard. Until last week we had won 41 (I think) games in a row if we were up by more than 4 at halftime (please correct me if my number is wrong). The results can not be argued. He wins. The problem is that we don’t like the way he does it. People say he takes his foot off the gas or prevent D only prevents you from winning games. Not true. The numbers again prove it. I agree that I can’t stand to watch a team we are dominating get a bunch of trash scores late in the game and make things closer than we would like. Buuuuuut the objective is to win. The best chance to win is hold onto the ball (no turnovers) and make the other team play flawlessly. More often than not we get a stop on D or some first downs to run out the clock. It's a numbers game and the safest route to victory. While I don’t like it either the results can’t be denied and IIMHO there is nothing to “fix”. It is the strategy of how plays the game. Plus with Russ at the helm I feel this strategy is even more effective.