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Tank, you are a wealth of information.

Originally posted by PP
If I am understanding you correctly though, it is OK to "exploit" the game when you really want the win against an evenly matched opponent, so long as you don't in most other games? If you do that, it's then cool to bitch about other teams "exploiting" the game?

The only thing I'd call an exploit is running the same play every down, pretty much all game. We didn't do that or anything even close to that.

Originally posted by Jed
Originally posted by PP

If I am understanding you correctly though, it is OK to "exploit" the game when you really want the win against an evenly matched opponent, so long as you don't in most other games? If you do that, it's then cool to bitch about other teams "exploiting" the game?

The only thing I'd call an exploit is running the same play every down, pretty much all game. We didn't do that or anything even close to that.

So, if you're playing Boston and they were to run inside or OT on every play but 9 (which Philly would have if they hadn't been behind on the last 2 drives and passed 9 straight times trying to save the game, inflating their pass totals to 18...adding 2 for sacks), so long as they run a couple different inside hand offs and a couple different OT plays, they aren't exploiting the game? If that's true then they never have exploited the game, have they? Sure, last season there was only 1 OT play, but, with pitches & sweeps completely broken back then, you can't blame a team for only running inside & OT, can you? Did Philly run a single sweep or pitch against DDL?...And keep in mind that, though those plays still suck, they aren't even close to as bad as they were last season.

I'm just trying to get this straight so I can follow the logic when Tpat goes off on another team using "exploits" to win again


Edit: I'll let this die now. Thanks for being a good sport about it.

Actually, there's 1 specific play which just works better than the others, which was the complaint about that one being run every time. If you watch, we run out of just about every formation.

As for Sweeps/Pitches, they work against some teams, we knew they weren't going to work against DDL so we didn't run them.

Good game Philly, thanks for playing with dignity and not going 100% run!!! Ops and I run another team in USA A6 that just took a loss to a team that did just that. 100% run.Bleh.
I knew it would be a real good game but I didn't think it would be THAT good. I had a hard time game-planning for your offense, your versatility is tough to defend. Hopefully we will get another crack at it in the playoffs. Good-luck, till then

edit- what a great poem!

Needs more haiku imo.

Originally posted by opspearhead
Needs more haiku imo.

Running the same play
makes defense easy for me;
So please be my guest.