So last night’s Colts vs Patriots game had a thrilling ending. The Patriots have the ball up 34 to 28 against the Colts and decide to go for it on 4th and 2 yards to go on their own 28. They do a quick screen pass to Faulk and he gets stuffed just short of the 1st down marker. Peyton gets the Ball and scores a game winning touchdown to Reggie Wayne with 13 seconds to go and the Colts win 35-34.
So today’s topic is Belichek's call to go for it on 4th down in his own territory. All day ESPN has blasted him for his decision to go, but I'm going to defend the call today. Obviously I'm a Colts fan so I am currently happy he went for it and failed, but at the time I was really worried he went for it. I thought for sure they would make it, and that screen play they ran they were killing us all day with. If the Pats had pulled off the conversion the game was over, the patriots could have bled out the clock.
Now why do I think they shouldn't have punted it? Peyton Manning has been so clutch the last two years, do you really want to give him the ball with 2 mins left in the game and a chance to win? The Colts had been driving in the 4th quarter and the Pats D was obviously getting tired, right now Peyton is in a zone, you give him the ball with a chance to win and he's marching to the end zone. Belichek thought he had a better chance.
Now since he failed what should he have done? Well this is a move no NFL coach will EVER do, but it would have been the smart move... let the Colts score on their first play... so you can get the ball back only down by one with almost two minutes to go. He was so scared that Peyton would score he risked giving the ball back to the Colts at the 28 yard line, If he let them score and put the ball back in Brady's hands with time he would have had a better chance to win. Lets not forget Brady has had some pretty clutch moments himself and Randy Moss was tearing us up. Luckily though no coach would ever let a team score on purpose, even if in my opinion it was the smart choice.
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