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With about two minutes left and the Dolphins on the one yard line and down by two points, did anyone expect Dave Wannstadt to have the QB take a knee for three plays and then kick a FG? I sure did and thought that either the clock would run way down or else we'd have to use up our timeouts and then after receiving the KO would have to go about 50 yards with no timeouts to get into FG range.
 

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You are assuming that Wannstadt had "brains". I was also surprised that he moved that fast to score and didn't use any of the clock or force the Cards to take some time outs. I guess that is why the Dolphins are 1 -7.
 

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it was a catch-22.You want the TD to make the Cards get a TD but you don't want any time on the clock.PLus, if you take the knee and Billy G misses another XP then you Wannestadt wouldn't have made it out of the stadium.He had to think his defense would hold down the Cards after the TD.
 

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Garthshort said:
With about two minutes left and the Dolphins on the one yard line and down by two points, did anyone expect Dave Wannstadt to have the QB take a knee for three plays and then kick a FG? I sure did and thought that either the clock would run way down or else we'd have to use up our timeouts and then after receiving the KO would have to go about 50 yards with no timeouts to get into FG range.

When you think of Dave think about this

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17. As smart as a stick.
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28. They are depriving some village of its idiot.
29. A few threads short of a sweater.
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31. Driveway doesn't quite reach the road.
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40. All foam no beer.
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I said to my son I hope the Dolphins score on the first play. They did. Then the two nitwit announcers were lauding the Dolphins because they were going for 2 pts.
Looking back, the idea is to win the game. Much like Emmits td vs the Seahawks, it gave the Seahawks a shot to win. A team should take every opportunity away from their opponent. Its funny how a team can fail because they succeeded. Imagine if the Cards would have stuffed Miami on the 1 yd line on 3 straight plays and used all our time outs. We would had very likely lost the game. Bizaare.
 

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Garthshort said:
With about two minutes left and the Dolphins on the one yard line and down by two points, did anyone expect Dave Wannstadt to have the QB take a knee for three plays and then kick a FG? I sure did and thought that either the clock would run way down or else we'd have to use up our timeouts and then after receiving the KO would have to go about 50 yards with no timeouts to get into FG range.

Garthshort that is exactly what I thought. Of course he would have looked really stupid if they had some sort of penalty or something else went wrong but with their record I would have tended to take at least on play and leave the cards with less than a minute.
 

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Garthshort said:
With about two minutes left and the Dolphins on the one yard line and down by two points, did anyone expect Dave Wannstadt to have the QB take a knee for three plays and then kick a FG? I sure did and thought that either the clock would run way down or else we'd have to use up our timeouts and then after receiving the KO would have to go about 50 yards with no timeouts to get into FG range.

why would you take that chance? you score the td and hope that your defense will hold and inept offense from scoring in less than 2 minutes. did you see how pathetic the cards ran the 2 minute offense in the first half? why would the dolphins think they do any better at the end of the game?
 

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You forget the gramatica factor

It was 15 to 17 and they were on the 1. Grammatica, just signed, already missed a point after. He misses and the game is over. So they get the TD and go up 21 to 17. Why go for 2?? You are up by 4 - it doesn't matter. The only reason I can see is absolutely no confidence in your kicker. Doesn't matter - We won. It was ugly but, it's a road win..:)
 

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long_season said:
It was 15 to 17 and they were on the 1. Grammatica, just signed, already missed a point after. He misses and the game is over. So they get the TD and go up 21 to 17. Why go for 2?? You are up by 4 - it doesn't matter. The only reason I can see is absolutely no confidence in your kicker. Doesn't matter - We won. It was ugly but, it's a road win..:)


Because if the get the w then it is 23 to 17...then if we score we HAVE to make the extra point or goto OT...if they just kick it then if we score it is over no need to even kick the extra point.
 

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long_season said:
It was 15 to 17 and they were on the 1. Grammatica, just signed, already missed a point after. He misses and the game is over. So they get the TD and go up 21 to 17. Why go for 2?? You are up by 4 - it doesn't matter. The only reason I can see is absolutely no confidence in your kicker. Doesn't matter - We won. It was ugly but, it's a road win..:)
The only right move is to go for 2.

If your up by 4,5 or 6 you know that the other team has to go for a TD with little time left. You have to assume the worst case scenario - that the other team will score that touchdown.

If you make the 2, you go up by 6, which they did.

Now, in the event that the other team does score that TD, which the Cards did, you have a tie game game at 23 and you have at least have a chance to try and block the extra point and force an OT.
 

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Speaking of gifts, I thought for sure that calling that pass to Ayanbadejo with 6:33 left in the fourth on 3rd & 1, up 17 to 15, was going to cost us the game. After picking up nine yards on two rushes we go with that instead of letting Hambrick pick up the first. It killed our field position and lead to a Miami TD. But, you know how it ended.
 

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EndZone said:
Because if the get the w then it is 23 to 17...then if we score we HAVE to make the extra point or goto OT...if they just kick it then if we score it is over no need to even kick the extra point.


True but in doing so. If feely turns it over an we run it back for the 2 points then we only have ot kick a FG to win also. The was some risk in giong for 2 also.
 

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WisconsinCard said:
True but in doing so. If feely turns it over an we run it back for the 2 points then we only have ot kick a FG to win also. The was some risk in giong for 2 also.

You cannot run an extra point back in the NFL.
 
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