if i'm ever up by a couple of points and time is a factor when i'm playing madden, i always let the opposing team score so that i can have enough time to come back and score to win the game. i think this is the smartest move and i think we should have done that. some might say, never give up. that's a valid saying. but what about these 2 sayings. do whatever it takes to win and play smarter, not harder. i think you have to do what it takes, within the rules, to give yourself a chance to win. we all knew the cowboys were gonna have an easy field goal and we wouldn't have any time left to do anything about it. we all knew that in the last 2 minutes of the game. that's why i would have let them score a touch down so that we would have a chance to win the game with a touch down. i know us scoring a touch down would be rare in that game, but at least we would of had a chance instead of hoping they miss an easy field goal with no time left on the clock.
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i actually haven't played madden in years but thats what i use to do in those rare occasions. anyway, it would be nice if you shared your thoughts instead of saying what you said. i guess that's too much to ask.
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well i agree, it has happened before, if we let them score at least we have a chance to get the ball back and then its about us not them
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I'm talking about doing the best thing possible in the exact same scenario we were in at the end of the game. -
I think that if we would have let them score there would have been some serious discussions today about how Sparano can't trust his defense to come up with a stop. While it may have made sense in the short term, in the long term it's more of a signal that we have no faith in our defense - and that's something that can tear a team apart.
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I agree with the OP. I was watching the game thinking once they were that close, let them get the TD and get the ball back with a chance to tie. Knowing Sparano, though, he would have run the ball and let the clock tick down anyways.
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i think the only thing that keeps people from wanting to do this is because its never been done, except for when i've done it in madden years ago. lol. it works. -
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I agree with this. Was thinking the same exact thing. Very rare for me but the situation dictated that thinking.
Eating time outs and letting the cowboys run out the clock for an easy FG wasn't going to win the football game.
You let them punch it in and we have a shot. I don't think it would be a question of whether Sparano believed in his defense to stop them. They were going to score anyway and win the game. I say give yourself at least some sort of chance to win.
I hate to say it but by not giving up on that drive they gave up on the game.Moves, RickyNeverInhaled and dolfan32323 like this. -
Let the other team score a TD? On purpose?
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It crossed my mind at the time but thought it might have been better for Wake to have pushed the runner out of bounds rather than tackle him which may have saved a little time and a TO. Not that it would have been easy to think that in the heat of the game.
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I think it has a lot to do with the HC having confidence in the offense. Given the offense had another 4 times in the red zone that resulted in FGs and no TDs Sparano was probably praying for a botched FG hoping Dallas would lose the game rather than Miami's offense being able to win the game.
I do like the strategy depending on context. Almost worked for GB against Denver in the Super Bowl.RickyNeverInhaled likes this. -
Yes once Dallas got inside the 20 they should have let them score. Getting the ball back behind by 5 is much better than not getting it back at all.
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Guys, sometimes you hear funny things...
The reason we are 3-8 is because we cannot score more than 20 points on any good and sometimes average Defense...
...and Not because we give up to many points...
Scored 13 against Houston...
Scored 16 against Cleve...
Scored 16 against SD...
Scored 6 against the Jets...
Scored 17 against the Giants...
So we are going to let them score a quick TD... you first will loose the respect of the team if you go that way... then you you will loose the ball on downs, because like I said you as a HC will have lost the respect of your team... -
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You send everyone except for man coverage until you stop them or score. Letting them milk the clock inside the 35 is myopic.
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Offensively we could not have maintained possession before when we needed to, what makes anyone thing we could have scored with even 1:30 on the clock, against a D that was making life misserable for our OL???
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Aqua, I understand, but you need to understand that 1:30 from the 5 yards from the GL is a bit different than 2:00 from your own 35 YL...
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interesting. i was thinking this tactic was only done by me in madden. lmao. this has happened before? if so, do you think it was coached or did it just happen? do you think the players involved thought it was best to let that happen or do you think the coach was smart enough to coach that? or did they players involved actually get beat?
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The problem with this strategy is that the offense can simply go and take a knee on the one, run down the clock, and kick an extra point like field goal.
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I have seen some team do that before and maybe it was even us. Seems like I recall Ricky Williams one time going down short of the goal line intentionally, to milk the clock when 3 points was going to win the game. I can't say for sure it was Ricky, but I have seen a RB react smartly to a defense easing up to allow a TD and get the ball back, by not running it in for the TD.RickyNeverInhaled likes this. -
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I seem to remember a similar situation for us back in the 70s, the infamous Sea of Hands game against the Raiders. We had a young, maybe rookie, RB named Benny Malone, who scored a TD late in the game on a great effort of breaking tackles, it seems like a FG was all we needed to go ahead. After he scored, the Raiders had a couple of minutes, and needed a TD to win at that point. Then Stabler took them down the field and on the scoring play his knees were inches from the ground with either Stanfill or Den Herder attempting to sack him, when he got the pass off, it went through the hands of a couple of Dolphins, Mike Kolen was one of them, and Clarence Davis who was commonly noted to be a stone handed RB as a receiver, caught the ball and they won. Several people were saying when Malone scored that he scored too soon. Had he went down on purpose inside the 5 for a 1st and goal, as I recall, the Dolphins could have bled the clock down to seconds left, and it would have been a chip shot for Garo.
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If we did decide to intentionally let them score, and the Cowboys realized it, they'd have been smart to not take the TD and just kneel at the 1 yd line, let the clock run and kick the FG like they did anyway. Like Aqua said earlier, if it was a rookie like Murray, he'd probably not have thought to kneel down at the one, and just ran it in. That was the best hope the Dolphins had at that point.dolfan32323, Killerphins, RickyNeverInhaled and 1 other person like this. -
ha we're using madden now to influence real life strategy? what we should have done in reality was be more agrresive on defense. blitz, get a sack whatever, if they score from a long way out we have some time to have our pathetic offense try and get the game back.
for the op, you know what i do when they let me score in madden? i fall down on the 1 and run the clock. then i score a td instead of the FG. -
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Oh my freaking God, are you serious? We're now comparing actually football strategy to a VIDEO GAME?????????????
I'm now dumber for even opening this thread!! :headwall:
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