{"id":293881,"date":"2023-09-25T07:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T07:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=293881"},"modified":"2023-09-25T07:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T07:04:48","slug":"raiders-head-coach-josh-mcdaniels-explains-field-goal-down-eight-with-222-to-go-youre-going-to-need-another-possession-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/nfl\/raiders-head-coach-josh-mcdaniels-explains-field-goal-down-eight-with-222-to-go-youre-going-to-need-another-possession-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels explains field goal down eight with 2:22 to go: 'You're going to need another possession anyway'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Down eight with 2:22 seconds to go, Las Vegas Raiders head coach Josh McDaniels went for three.<\/p>\n

Not long after, the Raiders lost to the Pittsburgh Steeler by five, 23-18, and the math added up to a 1-2 start to the Silver and Black’s season.<\/p>\n

It was a confounding decision — even more so considering McDaniels made the choice to go for a field goal twice<\/em> on his team’s penultimate possession. He stood by his call, however.<\/p>\n

“You have two choices there,” McDaniels said. “You try to make it a five-point game where you have an opportunity to win it with a touchdown if you get the ball back. Or you try to go for it there, and if you happen to convert you have to make the two-point conversion, all the rest of it. So, those are the decisions you’ve got to make. I thought we did a decent job putting ourselves in third down there the next series with the defense to try to have a play to get off the field, and we just didn’t handle that play very well.”<\/p>\n

As it played out, Daniel Carlson\ufeff’s 26-yard field goal trimmed the Raiders’ deficit to the final score with 2:22 to play. However, while McDaniels’ decision cut the deficit, it also cut the Raiders’ win probability by 5.4%, per Next Gen Stats. Had Las Vegas rolled the dice on fourth down, its win probability was 13.9% in comparison to 8.5% kicking a field goal. Odds are big in Vegas, but McDaniels didn’t see it that way.<\/p>\n

Asked if bringing on Carlson was an indictment of his confidence in the office, McDaniels replied, “No. No.”<\/p>\n

Asked to explain, things got a bit more muddled.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“You’re going to need another possession anyway; you know what I mean?” McDaniels said. “So, it’s not a lack of confidence. We went for it multiple times.”<\/p>\n

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