I even know of teams that tied or won a game with a field goal in 30 sec. (Chicago and Atlanta did that last year against us…)

To decide what’s the better choice statistically you need to work out what is your chance of success going either way and see if one gives you a much higher chance. Just considering the game against against the 9ers – we scored a TD on 2 of the previous 9 drives of the game without time restrictions so the chance to make it now starts at about 20%…in the last 2 games against the 9ers this year we blocked 1 of 5 field goal kicks – 20%. Sounds like it’s not such a clear cut case anymore doesn’t it?

In my mind – before you tell your D to let go and let them score it better be the SB or something like that. We can reach our regular season objectives without dropping our pants desperately on D in the hope we can pull a miracle and win. We are not that desperate.

I think his point is that sort of mentality is counterproductive. I still don’t agree with him and absolutely think they should have let the 49ers score, but I’m not sure any of those examples prove him wrong.