by Chase Stuart
on February 1, 2013
The puns this week are horribaughl.
I’m going to hold off until Sunday morning to post my Super Bowl preview, but today, I’m going to look at a possible hidden key to the game. In most playoff games, each coach is faced with a critical fourth down decision. Often times the conservative coach delays the decision to go for it in favorable circumstances early in the game only to be forced to do so in less optimal situations in the final minutes. We also know that in general, coaches frequently fail to go for it early in games when the down and distance dictate a more aggressive approach: even
Bill Belichick has been known to cost his team points with conservative fourth-down decisions, as he
did in the AFC Championship Game. Which leads to today’s post: Is one Harbaugh more or less aggressive than the other?
Let’s start with how each coach has performed in the regular season, beginning with Jim.
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