The Raiders Got Too Conservative in Crunch Time
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Did you grow up with a car guys as your dad? I didn't but when I was in college my landlord was a car guy. And one Saturday I was telling him I needed to go get an oil change at Juffy Lube. 20 bucks 20 minutes then I'd be back to watch football for the rest of the day. The car said nonsense! Bring your car over to my house we'll change the oil ourselves. We won't give jiffy lube the satisfaction! 6 hours later..I was back home having missed all the games I wanted to watch.
Car guys are like defensive coordinators. They never want to outsource their job to anyone else. Look at Antonio Pierce the new head coach of the Raiders. he's a defensive guy. Played defense, became a defensive coach, and now as the head coach wants to win with defense. He's not going to outsource the job of winning a game to the offense. The defense can do it! So on 4th and 1 with 7 minutes left in the fourth quarter, down 6, and in Chargers Territory...he tells the offense to Punt! The defense will do the job. We'll take care of this game. Let's punt pin em deep and play D. Well the Chargers marched down methodically and scored a touchdown. Raiders never got another shot to win the game. Defensive minded coaches always want to do it themselves...but sometimes it's better to just outsource it to Minschew.
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