The Broncos and Chargers have fallen short of lofty expectations so far, in part due to some questionable play calling from their head coaches. The two sides will square off tonight in Los Angeles.
Even with the veteran strategist in his ear last week, Hackett called for a pass into the end zone on third-and-4 at the Colts 13 just before the two-minute warning. A run could have either ended it or led to a field goal and a six-point lead against a team out of timeouts and which hadn’t reached the end zone all night.
Staley said at the beginning of training camp that the crucial decisions, particularly on fourth down, would be a mixture of mindset and math, and Hackett echoed that philosophy this week. “Even if we win the game: hey, it could have gone this way, it could have gone that way. And so all you can really do is respect your process, trust the people that you work with and trust your players,” Staley said.“Every coach in the National Football League is into the numbers,” Staley said. “It’s just the context of this framework has changed because of the word ‘analytics.’ But since Paul Brown started this league, people have been looking at data, tendencies, scouting to make decisions.
“What you don’t want to be is someone that’s just winging it,” Staley said. “Those people that tell you, ‘Hey, I’m just going off my gut instinct, my instincts are so much superior to you,’ anyone who knows anything about decision-making knows that’s the worst way to make a decision.”
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