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			| Gattigap | 11-23-2009 05:03 PM |  
 Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 So I remember reading somewhere people predicting that Belichik's play will, when the circumstances repeat itself, scare the piss out of coaches everywhere, and we'll see nothing but punts for the next 30 years. 
Anyone who thinks that hasn't met Yale coach Tom Williams, who knows that the answer is that you double down, bitch.  You double down. 
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		| See if this sounds familiar. Yale was leading by three points with 2:25 left in their giant season-defining game against Harvard on Saturday. It was fourth down and they had the ball on their own 26-yard line. Seems like an obvious punting situation, right? (After all, their punter is the best in the Ivy league and was averaging 51 yards per kick for the game.) Well, Williams was apparently so won over by the outpouring of love and affection that Bill Belichick got all week by going for it against the Colts, that he decided to do the Patriots' leader one better. The Bulldogs ran a fake punt that gained 15 yards on an end around run. The only hitch in the plan was that they needed 22.
 
 I'm not sure those Ivy League eggheads read all that statistical analysis defending Belichick very carefully. Oh, sure it was a gutsy gamble that really sent a message. The message is that Yalies are not smart. Seriously, fourth and 22? Harvard got the ball at the Yale 40 and three plays later they scored the winning touchdown, their eighth victory in nine tries over their arch rival.
 
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