RolandDeschain":zhikvhta said:
Zeb, just admit that his assertion of the Seahawks having a tendency to play to not lose on offense as opposed to playing to win is pretty accurate overall.
Seriously, dude.
They play the strategy with the least variance in expected outcome. Higher variance strategies are for the teams with less skill. Read any book on strategy. The best teams want to minimize risk and variance. The worst teams want to maximize them. A higher variance play call led to Wilson's INT for example.
Everyone loves Bates here for his remarkable game he called against the Saints in the 2010 playoffs. That level of creativity was only necessary because we were so overmatched. It isn't Pete's preference.
The Giants and Steelers won their Super Bowls with conservative game planning.
Why do you think we rarely blitz on defense? Blitzing is high variance.
Pete's whole philosophy is on minimizing risk and variance while winning the game. Against teams with good defenses - this means closer, low scoring games - always. Why increase variance in the other team's favor?