If Flores can create a winning franchise the ends justify the means… From the injury reports to whatever he has to say about the team, Flores will create a fog of war (lie) on anything to get an edge. It’s not that he’s a liar, but rather as Tzu Sun once said, “All warfare is based on deception.”įootball is as close to war as it gets… and Brian Flores is after all fruit of the Belichick coaching tree… not Don Shula. Going forward, I can’t believe wholesale a word Brian Flores says regarding football. Still, why rest that one chance on a ‘trick play’ with only one option? All the negative factors attached to this 2-point conversion makes the call inept or a brilliantly designed loss. I would have gone into overtime and had the game hang on a series of play rather than just one play given how well Miami was doing after the switch at quarterback. Not wise… if you want to win.Īlso, given that Miami essentially dominated the 4th Quarter, why not run a play with multiple options or kick for the tie? The Phins had all the momentum.
The Dolphins on the otherhand compounded the negative of the situation by pigeonholing themselves against the enemy’s strongest unit with a limiting play call. This allows the Skins to play conservatively to allow an even defensive call… which works against the screen pass. The worst-case for the Phins is they lose. Worst case Washington goes into overtime. They didn’t need to stop the Phins to win. The “Art of War” says never attack an enemy’s strength for the best chances of victory. Unfortunately, the D-line is the Redskins strength. The screenplay is, in essence, a trick play and is dependent on the Defensive Line getting fooled.
Here some other problems with the wisdom of going for two… if victory was the objective: Why was this the only play available and why run it when it was compromised with Walton’s injury? Either this was incompetence or competence depending on the Phins’ intention to win or lose the game. Still there is a disconnect in the logic here. Flores covered this trail up today by saying Walton was hurt on the play before. Okay… But the problem is Drake dropped it and they used Walton in practice on that play all week. On the face of it, it’s not that the 2-point conversion was THE worst idea, but the implementation of it was.īrian Flores said they practiced the play all week in response to questions on the wisdom of going for two. Maya Angelou once said, “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”įlores told us ‘tanking’ was disrespectful… but the fickle nature of the play called on the 2-point conversion showed us otherwise. Talk is cheap… and all the “no tanking” talk from Phins Head Coach Brian Flores is now worth a hill of beans.
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