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Finally, a note about play calling. Anyone watch the NFC championship game on Sunday? I know everyone's still fixated on the blown PI call that supposedly cost New Orleans the game, but I've got another take. If Shaw had been on the sidelines, that would never have happened. He'd have run the ball, burned the clock, kicked the field goal at the gun, and moved on to the Super Bowl. Sure it's fun to throw the ball all over the field, but winning is fun also.

I've seen this mentioned a lot, actually. It's worth noting that the initial playcall on 1st and 10 should've been fairly conservative, it was a slant to a wide-open All Pro receiver who caught something absurd like 85% of his targets this year, thrown by the most accurate QB of all time. It's a pretty winning proposition. The problem is that Brees threw the ball into the dirt (something is wrong with him and has been for a few months, I wonder if we'll ever find out what).

[stupac2]

Finally, a note about play calling. Anyone watch the NFC championship game on Sunday? I know everyone's still fixated on the blown PI call that supposedly cost New Orleans the game, but I've got another take. If Shaw had been on the sidelines, that would never have happened. He'd have run the ball, burned the clock, kicked the field goal at the gun, and moved on to the Super Bowl. Sure it's fun to throw the ball all over the field, but winning is fun also.

I've seen this mentioned a lot, actually. It's worth noting that the initial playcall on 1st and 10 should've been fairly conservative, it was a slant to a wide-open All Pro receiver who caught something absurd like 85% of his targets this year, thrown by the most accurate QB of all time. It's a pretty winning proposition. The problem is that Brees threw the ball into the dirt (something is wrong with him and has been for a few months, I wonder if we'll ever find out what).