Fucking idiot

Why is this hard to understand? It was clear then, as it is now, that the Pats wanted to kick. The mistake was that Slater thought he could choose direction, too. That’s it, nothing more. The strategy itself can be debated, but the reason for confusion at the coin toss cannot.

You’re so cool and edgy.

Madden is a simplification. To begin the game, you can choose to receive, kick or defer. If you choose to kick, the opposing team gets to choose at the half if they wish to kick or receive, so they could theoretically receive twice. If a team defers, they give the opening half choice to the other team and get to…

Bottom line is that belecheck didn’t think the jets could move the ball on them and he was wrong. Read between the one line belecheck gave y’all “we thought it was the best thing to do” the only explanation was that he thought he could get a stop with his defense.

Except that was exactly what they wanted to do. They wanted to kick. What he was confused about is he wanted to pick which way they were going to kick.

A different take: I think Slater meant to elect to kick. I think his confusion was that he thought the kicking team chooses direction, not the receiving team. He mentions, per the transcript, that he wants to kick “that way”, and when he cuts off Blakeman in protest, he points his arm in that same direction as “that…

I think Bill wanted to kick because he thought that the D would stop them and he could win with a FG

This wasn’t a smart thing to click “publish” on.

Basically what everyone else said in response to you.

To be fair, if you give the Jets the ball late they will usually blow the game for you.

The Patriots were just making sure they got the ball at the start of double overtime.

I’ve watched the video a few times now and I’m not even sure how the events that occur are possible. How does not a single player on either team seem at all confused until Cousins gets signaled by the sideline to hurry back to the line? Unless all 22 players on the field were simultaneously unaware of the time, the…