***Week 10 GameDay Thread...Bengals @ Titans***

[*bfine32*]

(11-12-2017, 04:35 PM)jfkbengals Wrote: It's not chasing points.  The points are needed to tie or take the lead.  Until the defense can prove they can stop them consistently, we have to keep the game at a one score margin.  It could have been a FG margin, now we have to find the end zone or have 2 FGs to take a lead, but they still have the next posession (unless we go onside kick to start the half, which would advise against).

I'll try to explain why 99.9% of folks that know football don't chase the points that early.

First off, just because you go for 2 doesn't mean you automatically get them.

Secondly, it's like someone in business chasing a sunk cost. 

Finally, the Titans get the ball to start the second half, if they score a FG who many points are we now down by? If we failed the 2 point conversion how many points would we be down by and then what we would be forced to try to do again if we got a TD.

It is chasing points and the vast majority understand the concept. I get folks want to second guess Marvin, but that was not a situation, in which, he should have been second-guessed.