Whose Idea Was It?

[Joshua]

All this talk about going conservative in the second half just didn’t jive with my memory of the game so I looked up the drive chart on the game. Here it is –

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/playby...2008&week=REG7

1st drive of 2nd half – pass, run, pass (sack)
2nd drive – pass, run, pass, pass, run, run, pass, pass, run, pass, pass, run (4th down sneak), run, run, pass (TD)
3rd drive – run, pass, run, fumbled snap, run, pass
4th drive - pass, run, run, pass
last drive – all runs

By my count, that’s 14 passing plays and 13 running plays, excluding the final drive. I think this shows pretty clearly that the play calling was still pretty aggressive in the 2nd half, at least up until the final drive (which I think was properly conservative). The difference was the execution (sack, fumbled snap, incompletions, etc.). I don’t think the idea that we played it close to the vest in the 2nd half is accurate.