The Bill Belichick Call vs. The Jack Del Rio Call

Even you even remotely have an inkling for sports, you all know of the 4th and 2 call Belichick made vs. the Colts this past weekend. And being the loyal GOI blog followers you are, you should also be aware of the Jack Del Rio call telling MJD to kneel at the 1 with about a minute left so they can waste time and kick a field goal to win the game. To me, these two calls seem just as risky, yet no one really is criticizing Del Rio, but essentially everyone is criticizing Belichick. You know why-only because Belichick's gamble failed and Del Rio's suceeded.

Now I shouldn't be this hyperbolic, the Del Rio call was not nearly as big of a gamble as Belichick's was. The few dumb critics of Del Rio's call (like I think Skip Bayless is one of them), say that, "What if the field goel gets blocked, or they miss, or something goes wrong. At least MJD scoring the TD would have guaranteed the team to be up" And what if martians come down from the sky and butt fuck the kicker in the middle of his kick. Or what if an earthquake happenes right before MJD scores that TD and he falls into the center of the earth. What if. The reason Del Rio's call was the correct one (besides the fact that it succeeded and he won the game), was because he was minimizing his risks. If MJD had scored, then the Jets would have had a minute to march down the field and score- or even worse, a kick return for a TD. And the risk of his kicker missing like a 20 yard FG is slim to none.

Belichick also made the right call because he was minimizing his risks as well. The only way the Pats would have guaranteed themselves a win is by holding on to the ball and keeping the ball out of Peyton Manning's hands. How do you do that- you keep your drive alive and the Pats offense on the field. So its an obvious risk because if you fail to convert, you end up doing the thing you tried to avoid. But the Pats have a great offense and a shitty D.

When you're making the call, you don't know what the result will be. A bad call can wind up in a good result and a good call can wind up with a bad result. But you make calls to minimize your risks to win the game. And as far as I'm concerned, both coaches made the right call.

NOTE: Hey football "experts" on TV, stop fucking telling me how the Pats defense feels. "Oh, Belichick doesn't have confidence in his defense." What are you basing this off of? Even if Belichick doesn't have confidence in his D (and maybe he shouldn't because Peyton was raping them in the 4th quarter), that doesn't mean anythng. Unless you report to me info from players actually in the Pats locker room, stop fucking making up stuff. In fact, Balichick seems to have an amazing abaility to control his players minds and actually believe in everything he tells them. So if Bill Belichick tells his D he has confidence in them, his D will probably believe him.