Please, no more. It’s the worst debate in sports right now. Not LeBron vs. Jordan. Not who the true home run champion is. (It’s Barry, by the way.) The current worst debate in sports has sinisterly bonded generations of NFL fans every Sunday to argue and yell about something they have no control over.
That’s right, the dreaded fourth-down debate.
NFL teams have more data than ever when it comes to deciding when and when not to go for it on fourth down. In general, teams are going for it on fourth down more often than they did in the past.