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My feeling is that the automatic punt while you're up has also become a sportsmanship/etiquette thing now when your team is ahead. If you're up by 2 touchdowns
by hkarthik 13y ago
My feeling is that the automatic punt while you're up has also become a sportsmanship/etiquette thing now when your team is ahead.
If you're up by 2 touchdowns and you go for it on 4th, I can't think of a single announcer in the NFL who wouldn't make it seem like you were rubbing dirt in your opponent's face by doing so.
- twoodfin 13y agoI disagree. Especially when you're trying to drain the clock with a lead, going for it on fourth-and-short is a completely orthodox strategy. I've never seen an announcer criticize a team for applying it: Far more often, I've heard some variation of "it's the defense's job to stop you, not your job to stop for the defense."